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My Brookings colleague Bruce Riedel, who directs the institution's Intelligence Project following a 30-year career in the CIA, writes in with the following comments on President Obama's speech this after...
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I have been hard on the President – on this blog last week, and today in the NYT – for what just about everyone (except Philip Bobbitt) thought was going to be his strike in Syria without congressional a...
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President Obama has just declared his decision to launch military strikes against Syria, after seeking approval for Congress, in order to hold the Syrian government accountable for its recent chemical we...
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There is little sense in rounding up all of Lawfare-ers' Syria-related posts, as our fearless Managing Editor already did so.
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The Brookings Institution has launched a new podcast series entitled the "Brookings Cafeteria." The first guest is yours truly. The podcast, which will feature a discussion with a different Brookings sch...
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Philip Bobbitt has an interesting piece from yesterday that compares the different British and American outlooks on confrontation with Syria, and recommends a course of action in Washington. He notes th...
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I'm pleased to announce that the third installment of the Lawfare Research Paper Series is now available. By Steven. G.
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I am hereby declaring war on the law review.
Yes, I know, students need law review service to get the good clerkships and jobs. And yes, I know, academics need law review publications for their tenure f...
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It's hard to talk about anything but Syria today, so we won't really attempt it.
In a formal statement this afternoon, Secretary of State John Kerry cited "clear" and "compelling" evidence that the Assa...
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As Wells noted, the British Parliament rejected a motion of support for British participation in military strikes against Syria in response to its alleged use of chemical weapons against its citizens. H...
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Such is the gist of this evening's Washington Post report.
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The world now has extraordinary access to the details of how the United States operates and funds its intelligence agencies, courtesy of Edward Showden and the Washington Post. This will lead to no good...
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Syria is on the front pages of every newspaper and at the forefront of everyone's minds, so we begin with the latest there.
President Obama was interviewed by PBS Newshour yesterday and said that althou...
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As long as we are covering the waterfront when it comes to the legal questions raised by the prospect of using force in Syria, we should say something about the role of the War Powers Resolution. After ...
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released a discussion draft of the proposed cybersecurity framework called for by President Obama's Executive Order. Here is a draft: NIST Discuss...
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For years, the Intelligence Community has fought hard against the disclosure of its budget. Even the top line total was, for many decades, classified. Now, thanks to Edward Snowden, the Washington Post...
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A few years ago I wrote a Council on Foreign Relations report titled Intervention to Stop Genocide and Mass Atrocities: International Norms and U.S.
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The situation in Syria being fluid, and our writers having authored a good number of posts on the subject, I thought it might be useful to compile the blog's work on legal issues, international and domes...
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Dapo Akande has a pithy analysis of the legality of humanitarian intervention at EJIL: Talk! Akande notes that “there is very little State support for the view that international law permits States to u...
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So writes the D.C. Circuit in this terse per curiam order. It was issued Monday.
Al Warafi, a Yemeni detainee, had claimed in the District Court that he had not joined the Taliban, but instead worked o...