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Editor’s Note: The Russian military occupation of the Crimea and Russian president Vladimir Putin’s attempts to railroad a political settlement that would separate Crimea from the rest of Ukraine is the ...
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Earlier today, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey S. White of the Northern District of California issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting the government from destroying call record metadata in the 215 ...
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Last month, the American Bar Association wrote to General Keith Alexander to express concern over press reports that overseas snooping by U.S. allies had intercepted communications by U.S. lawyers and th...
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I’m usually a big fan of Ben’s cogent observations on Washington’s folkways. Unfortunately, I can’t be as enthusiastic about Ben’s reply to my earlier post on Harold Koh’s memos regarding extraterritori...
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I want to take issue with Peter Margulies’s laudatory remarks this weekend about the Harold Koh memos on extraterritorial application of the ICCPR and the CAT---you know, those memos that mysteriously sh...
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Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is still missing. Investigators are ruling nothing out, and Interpol's secretary general has expressed concern that two passengers were able to board the flight with stolen...
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Here's a random tidbit.
U.S. Cyber Command is a subcommand of the U.S. Strategic Command. On the Stratcom web site is a fact sheet about U.S. Cyber Command.
According to Internet archives, on May 27, ...
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A fascinating hour of radio from This American Life this week on that guy in Florida who was a friend of Tamerlan Tsarnaev and was killed by the FBI during an interrogation session in the wake of the Bos...
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Editor’s Note: The United States has considerable economic resources, but it is often unable to harness the full power of these resources in its foreign policy. Any discussion of America’s decline or U.S...
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Lawfare readers---and listeners---know Sophia Yan as the pianist who recorded our podcast music. But she's also, in her other life, a reporter for CNN Money in Hong Kong.
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FISC Presiding Judge Reggie B. Walton yesterday rejected the government's request to retain telephony metadata beyond five years.
On January 3, 2014, the FISC approved the government's request to collec...
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This episode doesn't really need much introduction. It's a discussion and debate between Anthony Romero, head of the ACLU, and Michael Chertoff, former DHS Secretary, at a Federalist Society event a coup...
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The news is here. European officials confirm that at least two of the passengers whose passports were used to board MH370 were not, in fact, on the plane and that those who boarded the plane were using ...
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At Lawfare, the week began as usual: Wells posted our latest podcast, a discussion between a number of senior Brookings scholars on “The State of International Order.” Dan Byman wrote this week’s foreign...
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As Jack has frequently observed, legitimacy and effectiveness often go hand-in-hand. The two comprehensive State Department memoranda by former Legal Adviser (and Yale Law School dean) Harold Koh releas...
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Well worth a read: Charlie Savage's story, for the New York Times, regarding Obama Administration debate over whether the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the Convention Against ...
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"Drones: 1, FAA: 0" is the headline of Ryan Calo's article in Forbes.com about the overturning of an FAA fine against a domestic drone operator. Those who remember the FAA's faintly absurd intervention i...
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Apparently Edward Snowden has given this testimony, remotely of course, before the European Parliament. It opens as follows:
I would like to thank the European Parliament for the invitation to provide te...