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Today's Headlines and Commentary
The news of President Obama’s plans to normalize relations with Cuba took firmer shape over the weekend. -
The Week That Will Be
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On Sovereignty, Antarctica, Talmud and the Status of Jerusalem
It is always fascinating to watch someone see Jerusalem for the first time. Yesterday, I took a long walk through the Old City with an archeologist and the wonderful group of scholars that Academic Excha... -
USG Seems Befuddled About How to Respond to Sony Hack
David Sanger, Nicole Perlroth, and Eric Schmitt have a must-read NYT story on USG thinking about a response to the Sony hack, allegedly carried by the North Korean government. The story is jaw-dropping ... -
The Lawfare Podcast, Episode #104: Rose Gottemoeller on US Nuclear Arms Control Policy
This week, Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Rose Gottemoeller gave a keynote address at Brookings on US Nuclear Arms Control Policy. In her address, Under Secretary Go... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Lawfare picked up where it left off last week, reviewing the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s study of the CIA’s Enhanced Interrogation Techniques. -
The Sony Hack: Attribution Problems, and the Connection to Domestic Surveillance
The FBI said today of the Sony hack: As a result of our investigation, . . . the FBI now has enough information to conclude that the North Korean government is responsible for these actions. -
The Sony Hack: Will the United States Take Countermeasures Against North Korea?
Now that the United States has concluded that North Korea was responsible for the hack into Sony’s computers, it has begun to make noises about responding to that hack in some way. -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Today, the FBI formally blamed North Korea for the cyberattack against Sony Pictures. -
On the Sony Hack
I've written two essays on the Sony hack, one for the Wall Street Journal, and the other for Vice Motherboard. The former opens: Earlier this month, a mysterious group that calls itself Guardians of Pea... -
Thoughts on the SSCI Report, Part II: The Program's Brutality
I want to begin my review of the SSCI interrogation report and the responses from the CIA and the SSCI minority by addressing the area in which, in my view, the majority report is strongest: the allegati... -
The Perils of Torture Agnosticism (Or, How <em>Not</em> to Read the SSCI Report)
It’s now been 10 days since the release of the Executive Summary of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s (SSCI) study of the CIA detainee program—almost certainly to be known to posterity as the...
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