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Michael Kinsley, in his review of Glenn Greenwald’s book, made the following claims about leaks of national security secrets:
The question is who decides.
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From Smithsonian magazine and Irish landscape photographer, Michael St. Maur Sheil---who has a new exhibition on World War I battlefields a century on.
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The Chief Prosecutor at Guantanamo, Brig. Gen. Mark Martins, had this to say on the eve of a pre-trial motions hearing in United States v. Al-Nashiri---which commences tomorrow, and which Lawfare will co...
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Scooping his own speech tomorrow at West Point, President Obama today announced his decision on future US force levels in Afghanistan. Assuming that the winner of the Afghan presidential election will i...
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The 110-page document was released today, and entitled "Data Brokers: A Call for Transparency and Accountability." If you care about Big Data, then you will want to read the report.
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Petro Poroshenko, the pro-Europe chocolate tycoon, was declared the victor in Ukraine's presidential election on Sunday, reports the Wall Street Journal.
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I am struck by the circumspection of the American press in not revealing the name of the CIA Station Chief in Afghanistan whom the Obama Administration inadvertently disclosed over the weekend. That nam...
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Published by Metropolitan Books (2014)
Reviewed by Benjamin Wittes
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Robert Samuelson reminds us today of the Civil War origins of Memorial Day in this lovely piece in the Washington Post, which contains a long excerpt from James McPherson’s terrific Battle Cry of Freedom.
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Senator Corker has an op-ed in the WP on the need to update the AUMF. He documents the growth of extra-AUMF terrorist threats and then argues:
These incidents seem to suggest that the September 2001 Au...
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Editor’s Note: The United States rightly regards the Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Palestinian organization Hamas as a terrorist group, but Hamas is also the de facto government of the Gaza Strip. There ...
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John Carlin, the Assistant Attorney General for National Security at the Department of Justice, spoke at Brookings this week on “Defending our Nation by Prosecuting State-Sponsored Cyber Theft.” His rema...
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Cybersecurity was front and center on Lawfare this week, with the Department of Justice indictment of Chinese military personnel for cyber espionage. Bobby linked to the DOJ's press release on the matter...
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Raha Wala of Human Rights First writes in with some reactions to my posts last week on the AUMF hearings, to which I respond briefly at the end.
Jack’s posts on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SF...
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One frequently sees the claim that CIA drone operations should be handed over to the military because the military is more transparent. I have frequently disparaged that argument, not because the CIA is ...
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Made available today: a letter from Senators Dianne Feinstein and Carl Levin, which was sent to President Obama in January of this year and urged him to speed things up in the 9/11 case---chiefly by decl...
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Gerardi: Muerte en el vecindario de Dios Julie López F&G Editores (Guatemala City 2012)
The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop? Francisco Goldman Grove Press (2007)
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Yesterday, Thailand saw its twelfth successful coup d’état since the end of absolute monarchy in 1932. After almost half a year of escalating political turmoil in the country, about which I have written,...
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I find myself mostly agreeing with the essentials of Harold Koh’s testimony and post on "ending" the Forever War, especially his proposal for a new and narrowed AUMF. I hope this doesn’t cause my old te...