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Is "The Death of Klinghoffer" Anti-Semitic?
A fight has broken out in New York over an opera: Jewish groups are protesting the Metropolitan Opera's production of a work called The Death of Klinghoffer, which dramatizes the 1985 Achille Lauro hijac... -
China's Cyber War on the Protesters
As Benjamin Bissell noted a few days ago, Hong Kong protestors have developed some interesting ways of trying to avoid Chinese repression, including the use of an app, FireChat, that allows them to commu... -
The Week That Will Be
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New Tech and National Security Law -- 3D Printing Redux
Just as Ben seems taken with Drone technology, I've become a fan of 3D Printing (otherwise known as Additive Manufacturing) and its national security implications. And it's becoming a bit of a "thing"... -
The Foreign Policy Essay: The Strategic Value of Threat Deflation
Editor’s Note: As the United States goes to war in Iraq and Syria, President Obama and senior administration officials have repeatedly stressed the threat the Islamic State poses and emphasized the organ... -
The Lawfare Podcast, Episode #94: An Interview with Audrey Kurth Cronin
With the recent decision by the Obama administration to begin launching airstrikes against Islamist militants in Iraq and Syria, questions have arisen about the nature of the terrorist threat that groups... -
Judge Kessler’s Videotape Order and the Costs of Crying Wolf
The First Amendment question in Judge Kessler’s opinion in support of her Order directing the videotapes of Abu Wa'el Dhiab's forced feedings to be unsealed (see Jane’s summary) is whether the public’s p... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
First things first: one Lawfare post has gone viral this week, causing Lawfare to break all of its previous daily traffic records yesterday. -
Judge Kessler Orders Release of Guantanamo Force-Feeding Videos
An important development today in Dhiab v. Obama: over the government's objections, D.C. District Court Judge Gladys Kessler has ordered the unsealing of secret videos that show Guantanamo Bay prisoner A... -
Dropping "Khorasan" for "al Qaeda"
There has been much talk about the "Khorasan Group" over the past several weeks, including occasional sharp questions regarding its nature and provenance. -
So How <em>Does</em> Vladimir Putin Feel About Cyber, Anyway?
Two days ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a significant cybersecurity speech to Russia’s Security Council. For all you Russian speakers, the original text and video can be found on the Kremlin’... -
<em>Lawfare's</em> Digest of Declassified Documents from CIA's In-House Intelligence Journal
A few weeks back, in response to a FOIA request, the Central Intelligence Agency made public a trove of documents from Studies in Intelligence, the agency's in-house intelligence publication. The FOIA-re...
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