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We tend to focus our attention on Chinese APT cyber threats for good reason -- they tend to be more overt and focus on American business interests. But we should not lose sight of the fact that Russian ...
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A new set of monitoring guidelines for people arriving to the United States from West Africa has been put in place by the federal government. The New York Times reports on new measures that are supposed ...
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This morning, I posted some thoughts on a story in the New York Times about so-called "mail covers" by the Postal Service and their relationship
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I'm very interested to watch how the political system responds to this New York Times story about the U.S. Postal's Service very old, sort-of-bulk metadata program. The Times reports:
In a rare public ac...
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Two cyber related items today:
The FCC is now in the cybersecurity business. It's $10M fine is the first of its kind to be levied against a telecom that, allegedly, stored personal information with ina...
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That's the headline from Michael Iskikoff at Yahoo! News reporting that the FBI has identified the suspected so-called "second leaker."
The story begins:
The FBI has identified an employee of a federal ...
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While the US midterm elections are still a week away, democratic contests elsewhere in the world are ongoing or have just concluded. In Brazil, the BBC reports that incumbent president Dilma Rousseff nar...
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Michael Hirsh has a piece at Politico on the disorganized, uncoordinated crafting and implementation of the administration’s strategy to defeat the Islamic State. Of particular interest to Lawfare reade...
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In his piece on Nobel Peace Prize Laureates pressuring the President to disclose information about torture, Charlie Savage explains why some officials in the administration oppose the broad extraterritor...
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The other day, I posted this video of the North Korean Ambassador to the United Nations giving a talk at the Council on Foreign Relations:
The question of whether or not a think tank like CFR s...
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The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) last week announced a new project on “Ethical Autonomy.” (This is a topic on which Ken and I have written, most recently in a piece co-authored with Daniel R...
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Marty Lederman and I have been engaged in a debate over the past few weeks, and last Monday he wrote a lengthy and thoughtful “Monday Reflection” over at Just Security concerning some of my arguments her...
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On Monday, November 3, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Zivotofsky v. Kerry, the long-awaited final act in a decade-plus-long saga surrounding the passport of an American boy born in Jerusal...
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Belatedly, I want to join the discussion about the extraterritorial application of the Convention Against Torture (CAT), about which Jack commented on Friday, drawing on an article by Charlie Savage earl...
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Editor’s Note: The savage fighting in Syria and now Iraq seems to grow worse every month. As the U.S. role in the conflict grows, so too does the need to understand the motivations of the fighters, inclu...
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By now you know: Wednesday morning saw oral argument in Al Bahlul v. United States---the first since the D.C. Circuit's en banc decision, and the matter's remand to a three judge panel consisting of Circ...
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Ben outlined all the many, surprising---and mutually contradictory---ways in which President Obama is “right.”
Cody noted that ISIS and al Nusra appear to have obtained drone technology and shared some ...
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A doctor in New York who recently treated Ebola patients in Guinea has contracted the disease, the New York Times reports.
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A week ago Charlie Savage reported that the Obama administration “is considering reaffirming the Bush administration’s position that the [Convention Against Torture(CAT)] imposes no legal obligation on t...
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