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I haven't watched it yet, as I was doing a different event at the time of the hearing. But thanks to the magic of CSPAN and it's belated, but very welcome propensity for embed codes . .
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Today is the anniversary of the first Snowden disclosures, and Ben is moderating a debate on the future of U.S. intelligence collection authorities. The resolution is “U.S. surveillance authorities requi...
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The question of the composition of the FISA Court---politically, demographically, and in terms of professional background---has arisen periodically throughout the last year. It has given rise to news cov...
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Editor’s Note: The Pakistani people’s deep opposition to U.S. drone strikes against targets in Pakistan is common wisdom, and some observers see the associated anger as a major source of the country’s ra...
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Let’s start this week with famous American expatriate, Edward Snowden, whose interview with NBC’s Brian Williams aired on Wednesday. Ben was "unmoved" by it, pointing to Snowden’s unwillingness to submit...
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We will hold an event at the Brookings Institution a week from tomorrow, which marks the anniversary of the first Snowden disclosures. Lawfare readers will be familiar with the all the participants and t...
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Published by Metropolitan Books (2014)
Reviewed by Benjamin Wittes
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Editor’s Note: The United States rightly regards the Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Palestinian organization Hamas as a terrorist group, but Hamas is also the de facto government of the Gaza Strip. There ...
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Cybersecurity was front and center on Lawfare this week, with the Department of Justice indictment of Chinese military personnel for cyber espionage. Bobby linked to the DOJ's press release on the matter...
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Gerardi: Muerte en el vecindario de Dios Julie López F&G Editores (Guatemala City 2012)
The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop? Francisco Goldman Grove Press (2007)
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Watch the event with Assistant Attorney General John Carlin here:
And here are his remarks as prepared for delivery:
Defending Our Nation by Prosecuting State-Sponsored Cyber Theft
Thanks for that ki...
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The revised COIN Field manual is available here. I have not read it but Small Wars Journal has critical commentary by Charles Dunlap, Bing West, Adam Elkus, and
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Published by Random House (2014)
Reviewed by Ali Wyne
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Recently-confirmed Assistant Attorney General for National Security at DOJ, John Carlin, will give an address at Brookings on Thursday afternoon entitled “Tackling Emerging National Security Threats thro...
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David A. Simon, special counsel to the General Counsel, Department of Defense, has posted a new article to SSRN, "Ending Perpetual War? Constitutional War Termination Powers and the Conflict Against Al Q...
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We have discussed the manifold challenges of zero day vulnerabilities quite a lot on this blog – why they are central to the cybersecurity challenge, how their discovery is vital to both offensive and de...
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Editor’s Note: The conflict in Syria has attracted an unprecedented number of foreign fighters, with Muslims streaming in from the Arab world and Europe to take up arms against the regime of Bashar al-As...