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Combating Terrorism Online: Possible Actors and Their Roles
Editor’s Note: Fighting terrorism online is one of those ideas that everyone agrees with in principle but disagrees on in practice. What should be regulated and who should do so are among the many areas ... -
How the FISA Court Really Works
The president and his allies have a new line of attack against the Carter Page FISA application: the FISA Court did not hold a hearing to adjudicate the merits of the application. As one of the early ped... -
The Lawfare Podcast: John Sipher on Human Sources in Moscow
The New York Times reports that CIA human sources in Moscow are drying up: “vital Kremlin informants have largely gone silent, leaving the C.I.A. -
Document: George Papadopoulos Defense Team Sentencing Memo
The defense team for George Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI in connection with L'Affaire Russe last October, has released a sentencing memo ahead of Papadopoulos's sentencing hearing... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
The National Security Division of the Justice Department charged W. Samuel Patten, a Washington political operative and former associate of Paul Manafort, with failing to register as an agent of a foreig... -
How President Trump’s Comments on ‘Flipping’ Witnesses Undermine Law Enforcement
What does it mean for a criminal defendant to “flip”? Last week, President Donald Trump slammed the practice of calling cooperating defendants to testify against others in exchange for a reduced sentenc... -
Today’s Headlines and Commentary
Federal law enforcement officers arrested a California man, Robert D. Chain, on Thursday after he made several threatening calls to the Boston Globe, reports the Post. In his phone calls threatening to s... -
Document: W. Samuel Patten Charged With Acting as an Agent of a Foreign Power
Longtime Washington political operative W. Samuel Patten was charged on Friday for failing to register as an agent of a foreign principal under 22 U.S.C. §§612 and 618(a)(1). The Justice Department alleg... -
Copyright Law Could Stop 3-D Printed Guns. Should It?
Cody Wilson’s legal battle to post his plastic gun schematic is awful, pitting speech values against human lives, raising the specter of more mass shootings, and casting a dark shadow on what should be t... -
3D-Printed Plastic Guns: Five Reasons to Worry
This week saw law and common sense unite in opposition to the widespread availability of dangerously untraceable, undetectable guns. -
Inching Closer to a Showdown Over the Fate of Captured Islamic State Fighters
More than 600 Islamic State fighters from a variety of countries are being held by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Syria, but no one thinks this situation can last. Frantic diplomatic negotiations ... -
Today’s Headlines and Commentary
Recently declassified documents illustrate the critical role Iran played in shaping the Iraq war, according to the Wall Street Journal. The documents shed light on the relationship between Iran and one o...
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