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Would a cyber attack on the most vulnerable nodes of the U.S. power grid paralyze us, or would we be prepared? That's what 10,000 war gamers tried to assess in a simulation this week.
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Great.
Just great.
The explosion is not all that impressive, but I sure wouldn't want to be on an airplane when it happened.
More information available here from the aptly-named site, Terminal Cornu...
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This week’s much-anticipated decision by the First Circuit in Mehanna v.
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As Ben previewed yesterday, the First Circuit Court of Appeals, in an opinion written by Judge Bruce M. Selya, affirmed the conviction of Tarek Mehanna on a number of terrorism and false statement charge...
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The appellant and appellee briefs in a Guantanamo detainee's habeas-related appeal, Abdullah v. Obama, have been filed with the Court of Appeals for the D.C.
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We will post a full summary of the First Circuit Court of Appeals's decision in the case of Tarek Mehanna soon.
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Paul already linked to his and DNI General Counsel Bob Litt's testimony (which also represented J.
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I testified on Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law. The hearing was on the Surveillance Transparency Act of 2013 -- a proposal by Senator Fr...
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We begin with security concerns posed by rebel groups in Paraguay, like the Paraguayan People's Army, who are making headway and intensifying their operations against security forces in the country. The ...
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Ben and David Cole have been having an exchange (see here and here) about a “universal right to privacy,” including a discussion about what such a right might look like. Stepping back, it is useful to u...
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Last month, I had the privilege of participating in three different forums on the Snowden leaks and congressional considerations of reforming the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA): a hearing b...
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Now that Will Baude has outed me, I thought that perhaps I should tell Lawfare readers that for the last few months I have also been writing on a second blog, called On Labor. My co-blogger is my Harvar...
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Responding to posts by Ben Wittes, Orin Kerr, and David Cole (at Just Security), I would like to take the debate in a somewhat different direction. David makes an argument, based in part on internationa...
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Over at Just Security, David Cole rounds out our exchange on global international privacy rights. I'm going to let him have the final word here and merely link to his post as a reader service. As I think...
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While everyone is still talking about the National Security Agency, other arms of the American intelligence community are bulking up their technologies. The elusive Intelligence Advance Research Projects...
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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote this piece about the disgusting efforts of Rep. James Sensenbrenner to wash his hands of bulk metadata collection:
Reasonable people can disagree about NSA surveillance in ...
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Over at Just Security, David Cole tweaks me for a "failure of imagination" for my piece yesterday wondering what he and Kenneth Roth mean by a worldwide right of privacy: Cole writes that "[Wittes] argue...
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Here's an interesting document.
Back on October 17, the Center for National Security Studies moved before the FISA Court for public briefing in the latest application for a bulk metadata order under Sec...
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Earlier, I noted the Lavabit appeal filing in the Fourth Circuit. Today the government filed its reply brief. A summary of the argument:
Lavabit appeals a contempt order from the district court. But in...