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When the Senate returns on December 9 to take up the National Defense Authorization Act, one of the more than 500 amendments Senators will consider is a provision that would amend the Anti-Terrorism Act ...
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Cyberwar is all the rage, and with it, questions abound on what new technologies may mean for society and---Lawfare's specialties---the implications of these technologies on surveillance, privacy, intell...
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I haven't watched this yet, but it looks pretty interesting.
The motion is "Spy on me, I'd rather be safe."
The panel is a good one: Arguing for it are Stewart Baker and Richard Falkenrather.
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On November 20, my Brookings colleague Bruce Riedel hosted an event with Lt. General Michael Flynn, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Sponsored jointly with the National Intelligence Universit...
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Ohio State law professor Peter Shane writes in with the following thoughts on recent revelations about the FISA Court:
Edward Snowden’s leaks and the ODNI’s subsequent declassification program have shed ...
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Given all the discussion around China's controversial announcement this past week of an "Air Defense Identification Zone" in the East China Sea, it seems like a good moment for a Reading on the law and s...
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My Brookings colleague Bruce Riedel has an essay up on the Brookings web site entitled, "Five Years On, Mumbai Terror Masterminds Still at Large." It opens:
Five years ago, the city of Mumbai was atta...
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The briefing regarding the mootness of the habeas appeal of the now-former Bagram detainee, Hamidullah, is before the D.C. Circuit. Last week the U.S. government informed Hamidullah's attorneys that he h...
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Americans vacillate over national security and government power. We want an effective intelligence community, but we do not want too much surveillance or collection. We want to rein in the NSA, but we al...
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Your pre-Turkey Day news roundup begins with the NSA. Shane Harris at Foreign Policy gives us the scoop on Fran Fleisch, the woman behind the scenes who has kept the wheel greased as Gen. Keith Alexander...
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Congress is in recess now (that's why it's so quiet here in Washington) and when they return the first order of business for the Senate is to take up the 2014 NDAA. The bill, authorizing activities of ...
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Three updates in Aamer v. Obama, the force-feeding case on appeal to the D.C. Circuit.
On November 14, the government filed its opposition to Guantanamo detainee Imad Abdullah Hassan’s motion to interve...
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The November NSA cache declassified by Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper last week includes two United States Signals Intelligence Directive (USSID) documents. The more important of the ...
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Let's take a brief detour from Iran, Syria and NSA surveillance, and talk about GTMO: Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo write, for the Associated Press, about "Penny Lane," a secret site at the Guantanamo Bay...
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CALL FOR PAPERS
10th Annual Conference on National and International Security
at the Syracuse University Maxwell School for Citizenship and Public Affairs
The Pivot: Challenges to Global Security in Asia
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This past Friday, District Court Judge William H. Pauley III, of the Southern District of New York, heard oral argument in the American Civil Liberties Union’s ("ACLU") challenge to the government’s bulk...
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About a month ago, I asked what had happened to the UN’s effort to develop a set of standard operating procedures to govern detentions that arise during the course of UN operations. It appears that such...
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It's all about Iran this news cycle.
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Over at opinio juris, Duncan Hollis has an interesting post about whether the agreement reached with Iran on early Sunday morning is legally binding. (I do disagree with Duncan’s title: the “new U.S.-Ir...