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Thanks to some heroic contributors over the weekend, we are nearly halfway to having raised the funds to redesign and rebuild Lawfare. If you are one of the people who has made this possible, many thanks...
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Ever since the Edward Snowden revelations began, countries outraged by U.S. intelligence practices have been batting around the idea of forcing countries to store data on their citizens within those coun...
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Published by The University Press of Kentucky (2014)
Reviewed by Charles Blanchard
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Editor's Note: As Iraq collapses into yet another bloody civil war and chaos sweeps across the Middle East, Americans are once again hearing calls for rebuilding the institutions and societies of the Mid...
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The big news this week: Lawfare recently received 501(c)(3) tax exempt status, and Ben reached out to you, our loyal readers and followers, for financial contributions to help make Lawfare better. Just d...
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Yesterday, we received a notification from the IRS that our 501(c)(3) tax exempt status has now been approved---making donations to Lawfare tax deductible. Today, we met with representatives of a tech co...
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Published by Knopf (2014)
Reviewed by Charlie Dunlap
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Editor's Note: The United States has been at war since 9/11, but the nature of the enemy remains unclear. Some would say the war is against terrorists of all stripes, while others focus more narrowly on ...
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Two articles based on the cache of documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden were published this week. On Sunday, Barton Gellman, Julie Tate, and Ashkan Soltani of the Washington Post reve...
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Editor’s Note: The conquest of Mosul and other cities in Iraq by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has alarmed the United States and its allies and electrified the Sunni jihadist community. On M...
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Ahmed Abu Khattala, the suspect allegedly behind the attack on the American embassy in Libya, arrived in Washington this week. Bobby brought us the initial news, while Ben shared the government’s memo re...
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Today is a sad day in the history of Lawfare; it marks the departure of Ritika Singh, our intrepid associate editor. Ritika has been a key part of Lawfare almost from its beginning. She started at the Br...
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We are currently accepting applications for a fall intern. A description of responsibilities and information on how to apply is below:
Lawfare Internship, Fall 2014
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Editor's Note: The war in Syria has attracted volunteers to fight from around the world, including from the United States. Although senior U.S. officials have warned of this threat, the legal foundation ...
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The week began with the Department of Justice’s release, under a Second Circuit court ruling, of a redacted version of an Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) memo that outlined the government’s justification f...
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Footnote 44 of the recently released and much-discussed OLC Awlaki memorandum is heavily redacted, but what's left reads, in part:
Nor would the fact that CIA personnel would be involved in the operat...
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As my co-authors and I put the finishing touches on the 2014-15 Supplement to Aspen Publishers' National Security Law and Counterterrorism Law casebooks, I had another thought about the potential consequ...