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Editor’s Note: The recent terrorist attacks in France prompted mass rallies and statements of support from around the world. In the United States, President Obama is convening the leaders of concerned st...
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Last week, Bryan Cunningham invited the Lawfare community to debate the proper role of law enforcement and traditional war fighting tools in combating terrorism. Cunningham argued that the discussion was...
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Raids across Europe rooted out dozens of suspected Islamic extremists yesterday and today, ABC reports. The Guardian reveals that Belgian counter-terrorist units conducted an operation against suspected ...
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As part of our ongoing series on Bitcoin, I thought I would note today's report that the value of Bitcoin has fallen below $200/XBT. Since buying the coin on December 31 it has lost more than 33% of its...
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Editor’s Note: Last week we discussed the rise of China’s economy and why some U.S. fears of Chinese dominance might be overstated. Yet regardless of the speed of China’s economic growth, its military mo...
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In response to Wednesday’s terrorist attack on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, Clara Spera noted that, while the French counterterrorism apparatus was caught off-guard, the victims themselves s...
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This week, Brookings unveiled a new poll by Nonresident Senior Fellow Shibley Telhami that dives below the"approve/disapprove" numbers to offer a more sophisticated picture of how the American public vie...
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Cody earlier posted the text of James Comey's speech yesterday. Here's the audio:
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I'm very excited to add three new additions to Lawfare's crew of contributors:
David Kris requires no introduction to this audience. He served as assistant attorney general for national security earlier...
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Some time back, I promised that if you donated to Lawfare before year's end, each dollar of contribution would constitute a separate chance to win neato Lawfare prizes. The year having ended, Cody, Wells...
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Welcome to the first full week of 2015!
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Editor’s Note: China’s huge population and spectacular economic growth since the 1980s at first gave rise to fears, and now a sense of inevitability, that China will surpass the United States in the 21st...
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As news broke of the cyberattack on Sony, Jack wrote of just how befuddled the US government seemed to be about how to respond. After years of thinking on cyberwar and perhaps thousands of roundtables, t...
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First off, happy New Year to all our readers.
The year 2014 was a great one for Lawfare--with continued growth in readership, and development of new content streams. I honestly did not believe we would ...
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Last week a Lawfare reader brought this item to our attention:
Earlier this month, the Federalist Society's International and National Security Law Practice Group hosted a Podcast with The Wall Street J...
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Given that it's December 29, it's not much of a promise to say that this will be my last fundraising solicitation post of the year. That said, I promise. But I wanted to remind those of you who had not y...
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This morning the Associated Press reported that South Korea, Japan and the United States will be signing their first three-way intelligence-sharing pact as part of an effort to address the growing North ...
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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.