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I woke up this morning to text messages and Facebook posts about the Thai Constitutional Court’s verdict ousting Thailand's Prime Minister, Yingluck Shinawatra. The messages ranged from the exuberant “Ye...
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The United States will help to recover over 200 female schoolchildren abducted by Boko Haram in Nigeria. The Washington Post reports that the White House will be sending “specialists” to Nigeria to help ...
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The resolution at this Munk Debate in Toronto is "Be it resolved state surveillance is a legitimate defense of our freedoms." Supporting the motion are former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden and Harv...
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There’s much common ground evident in Steve’s reply to my earlier post on the effort of Abd Al-Nashiri, the accused mastermind of the USS Cole bombing, to enjoin his military commission trial. Steve and...
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After almost three years at Brookings, a large portion of which I have spent working on Lawfare, I'm going off to Georgetown's School of Foreign Service to work on politics and security issues in South A...
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It’s clear from his post this morning that my friend Peter Margulies believes that Al-Nashiri’s new habeas challenge to his trial by military commission, which rests on the claim that the United States w...
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Has DOD failed to comply with its statutory obligation to explain to Congress how the executive branch decides which groups and persons are within the scope of the AUMF?
HASC Chairman McKeon has release...
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Terror continues in Nigeria. After the leader of Boko Haram released a video saying over 200 schoolgirls are being held hostage, three gunmen opened fire at another school---but thankfully, no one was in...
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The habeas challenge to military commissions recently filed by Abd Al Rahim Al-Nashiri is a loser on both procedure and substance. Al-Nashiri, the alleged mastermind of the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole,...
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A very interesting article in Der Spiegel about U.S.-German relations, the NSA investigation, and Ukraine in light of Angela Merkel's recent trip to Washington. The bottom line is that the Ukraine crisis...
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As has been reported widely, the White House Big Data review was released last week. Paul provided initial analysis. While the report does not seem to counsel dramatic action, several of the recommendati...
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Wells and I and our Brookings colleague John Villasenor have begun a paper series of civilian robotics. Some of it is a little beyond normal Lawfare fare, but some of it will be in the heartland. The fir...
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After 46 people died last Friday in riots across east Ukraine, and pro-Russian demonstrators stormed Odessa police headquarters on Sunday to free 67 people detained after rioting, Ukraine has sent an eli...
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The Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the National Academies is pleased to announce the release of a report entitled At the Nexus of Cybersecurity and Public Policy: Some Basic Conc...
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Stewart Baker began this week's Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast---which always opens with the week's NSA news---by noting that there was virtually no NSA news this week. That which did exist, moreover, was not ...
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Editor’s Note: Sanctions seem to hit the sweet spot for policymakers when considering options for U.S. foreign intervention: unlike military force, sanctions don’t risk American lives and don’t feed the ...
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I was at the U.S. Pacific Command’s 27th annual MILOPS conference much of the week.
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Let's begin with the White House’s recent release of its highly anticipated Big Data report: Ben noted the release of the report, and Paul gave us some of his reactions.
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You've likely heard: Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a Guantanamo detainee facing capital military commission charges, last month mounted a new habeas challenge in the district court for D.C.