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A Lawfare License Plate?

Benjamin Wittes
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 7:31 AM
A friend in the intelligence community, using sophisticated data-mining techniques of a sort that threaten our civil liberties (namely, checking the D.C. government's web site), has learned that nobody has yet claimed the D.C. vanity plate "LAWFARE"--which, believe it or not, fits perfectly on a D.C. plate. This is what we call actionable intelligence.

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A friend in the intelligence community, using sophisticated data-mining techniques of a sort that threaten our civil liberties (namely, checking the D.C. government's web site), has learned that nobody has yet claimed the D.C. vanity plate "LAWFARE"--which, believe it or not, fits perfectly on a D.C. plate. This is what we call actionable intelligence.

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Benjamin Wittes is editor in chief of Lawfare and a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of several books.

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