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Well that was fun. Shutdown over---for now. Default averted---for now. Now back to our regularly scheduled programming. Can we all agree not to talk about Ted Cruz for at least the next two weeks?
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Tomorrow at 9:30 a.m., D.C. Circuit Judges David S. Tatel and Thomas B. Griffith, and Senior Judge Stephen F. Williams will hear oral arguments in Aamer v.
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I really don't know what to say about this piece that Shane Harris posted last night at Foreign Policy, so I'm largely going to let it speak for itself:
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Via the New Republic's Security States blog, I have a new essay up on last week's Ninth Circuit decision in Hamad, and how it's part of the larger pattern of judicial hostility to damages suits in counte...
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Over the last few weeks, Benjamin Wittes and John Bellinger both have written on Lawfare about the government shutdown, Tea Party Republicans, and political dysfunction's implications for national securi...
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Abu Anas al-Liby, whom U.S. special forces snatched from Libya and deposited aboard the U.S.S.San Antonio, pled not guilty to conspiracy charges in Manhattan's Federal District Court yesterday.
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Charles Taylor, the former President of Liberia who was convicted of war crimes in 2012 by the Special Court for Sierra Leone, arrived in Britain yesterday to begin a 50-year prison term in a British jai...
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What does the government's demand for Lavabit's encryption keys have to do with its justification for its bulk data collection under FISA Section 215? Basic logic.
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If a body other than the Congress of the United States were actively contemplating a step that would, by the accounts of virtually all economists, tank the U.S. economy, cause interest rates to shoot up,...
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Although the Federal Aviation Administration has been tasked by Congress to come up with regulations for the use of drones in domestic airspace, it is running late on that mandate. Even small, light mo...
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Here's the Fourth Circuit's order denying two petitions for rehearing en banc----one by New York Times reporter James Risen, the other by former CIA Officer Jeffrey Sterling.
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For those who are following the saga of Lavabit, the company has now filed its brief in the Fourth Circuit.
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Over at Security States, I have a post entitled "When Companies Are Hacked, Customers Bear the Brunt.
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Week three of the Shutdown. Former SecDef Leon Panetta criticized the Obama Administration's handling of furloughs of civilians at the Defense Department and within the intelligence community, as Carlo M...
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In July, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court undertook to collect more detailed statistics than those required by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Among other things, the latter calls ...
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As a short follow up to Ben's post about the editorial judgment of the Washington Post, I am reminded of what the New York Times Public Editor, Byron Calame said about the SWIFT disclosures, in an opinio...
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The Washington Post this morning has the latest Snowden-leaked document story: "The National Security Agency is harvesting hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal e-mail and instant messaging...
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That's the gist of this afternoon's AP wire report, which just ran in the Washington Post:
WASHINGTON — After a weeklong interrogation aboard a U.S. warship, a Libyan al-Qaida suspect is now in New Yor...
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Over at Security States, I have this piece up, about the proliferation of city- and state-operated surveillance technologies---and the need to pair collection rules for these technologies with effective...
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Let's start with the domestic developments:
A dry-ice bomb exploded in a men's bathroom at Los Angeles International Airport last night.