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Iran may have agreed to an interim nuclear deal, but that hasn't stopped war from brewing on the home front.
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In his profile yesterday of DNI General Counsel Bob Litt, the Washington Post's Greg Miller writes:
Litt has donated tens of thousands of dollars to Democratic candidates and causes, and friends describe...
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First up for the three-judge panel of D.C. Circuit Judges Merrick Garland, Karen LeCraft Henderson, and David Tatel this morning is its second oral argument related to the detention of Afghan detainee Ob...
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Since Edward Snowden unveiled the existence of NSA's mass surveillance programs in June, various government officials have gone on the record to claim that the programs have prevented terrorist attacks a...
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The Supreme Court today denied cert in the Samantar case, rejecting the Government’s recommendation to grant, vacate, and remand to the Fourth Circuit and instead allowing the Fourth Circuit’s decision t...
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Afghanistan: A Distant War Robert Nickelsberg; Foreword by Jon Lee Anderson; Introduction by Ahmad Nader Nadery Prestel U
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Let's start with nuclear news: Iran and six world powers---United States, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany---have completed an interim deal under which Tehran will temporarily slow its nuclear ...
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On Friday, President Obama is scheduled to announce his response to his Review Group on NSA matters, whose report I have been evaluating in this series of posts. The Review Group report covers a huge ran...
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Who will run cyberspace? It’s one of the most important questions in the world today. Yet few outside a narrow group of policy wonks, lawyers, technologists, and international bureaucrats are paying a...
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I just came across this excellent article, "Tinker, Tailor, Leaker, Spy: The Future Costs of Mass Leaks," by David V.
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The last few days have seen a flurry of diplomatic and law enforcement activity in both the United States and India that may bring the month-long Khobragade controversy to an end. In this post, I try to...
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We come, at endlessly-long last, to the final set of recommendations in the Review Group report: the recommendations in Chapter VIII, which deal with "Protecting What We Do Collect."
I tend to agree wit...
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The Syria conflict hasn’t really stayed in Syria. The trickle of Sunni jihadists traveling to Syria to fight quickly became a flood, with their numbers rapidly surpassing those in past wars, the anti-Sov...
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So ...
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Although this week’s most noteworthy leaks came out of the New Jersey Governor’s office, Lawfare is still analyzing the ripples of earlier federal disclosures.
Raffaela pointed us to two statements out ...
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Did the government reveal the presence of US military advisors in Somalia in order to beat the Guardian or some other Snowden outlet to the punch?
Earlier today, Jack posted about the likelihood that th...
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Chapter VII of the Review Group report is, for the most part, vaporous.
It deals with, as its title puts it, "Global Communications Technology: Promoting Prosperity, Security, and Openness in a Networke...
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The Washington Post reports that Senator Paul “plans to introduce legislation to repeal the use-of-force resolution that paved the way for the Iraq war,” and notes that President Obama supports the repea...
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President Obama seems to be getting closer to announcing reforms to the NSA. There have been months of discussions in and out of the White House regarding reforms to the intelligence agency. Yesterday, t...
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One hears that the worst of the Snowden documents (from the perspective of the USG) have not yet been released, and one wonders what that might mean. Yesterday’s story that “most of the documents he too...