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We expect the Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman to address the chamber, and to discuss her Committee's long-anticipated study, sometime between 11 and 11:15.
A link to C-SPAN's coverage is here; t...
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The Senate Intelligence Committee report on the CIA's interrogation program is expected out today, but unsurprisingly, many people aren't bothering to wait for it, the minority views, or the CIA's respon...
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Lawfare has decided to buy a bitcoin. We do this not as an investment but as an experiment in journalism. Buying a bitcoin will let us explore the mechanics of how the market works and also give us a fun...
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Today, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James R. Clapper declassified the fact that the government filed an application with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to extend the Nation...
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The Intercept has published an article---based on the Snowden documents---about AURORAGOLD, an NSA surveillance operation against cell phone network operators and standards bodies worldwide. This is not ...
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If recent news reports and inflamed Twitter activity are to be believed, the long-awaited Senate report on the CIA’s enhanced interrogation program is "expected to be released Tuesday." Already, former P...
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The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has live-streaming video of this morning's oral argument, in a challenge to the NSA's call records program.
The live stream will get underway at ...
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The new National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is likely to extend the ban on any transfers of Guantanamo detainees into the United States but ease restrictions on transfers to other countries.
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Last Thursday, Bloomberg View’s Josh Rogin had a piece on a draft ISIL authorization put forth by Senator Bob Menendez, the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Based on Rogin's report, it...
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It now appears that the next military commissions case in which the D.C. Circuit will hear oral argument is that of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri ("Nashiri"), with oral argument scheduled before an as-yet unna...
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Editor’s Note: Foreign fighters in Iraq and Syria are a bit of an obsession for those of us at the Foreign Policy Essay. In this contribution, we’re pleased to go deep on the problem in Scandinavia—a sur...
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Here's the news from the New York Times this morning:
WASHINGTON– The United States transferred six detainees from the
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The Israeli government fell this week, and Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu called new elections. Israeli politics are an endlessly fascinating Byzantine mess with significant security implications for the ...
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Because of the Thanksgiving holiday, Lawfare skipped our usual “The Week That Was” post last week. To make up for it, we present to you “The Fortnight That Was,” which includes posts made since late Nove...
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The United States and Turkey seem to be having increasingly detailed discussions about establishing a no-fly zone (or “buffer zone”) inside the northern Syrian border adjacent to Turkey. The press report...
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Today in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, President Barack Obama appointed Ashton Carter to serve as his fourth Secretary of Defense. Carter, a physicist by training, is a “national security centri...
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Since it has some 14 million views already, I'm guessing most of you have already seen this. But if not, take a few minutes to watch and appreciate it. Sainsbury's partnered with the British Foreign Legi...
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Here is the text of the critical defense legislation, which passed the House earlier this week.
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Jack summed up well my feelings on yesterday's news about the New Republic, and I have only two things to add---one of them institutional and one of them personal.
On the institutional side, as readers ...
