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Editor's Note: The United States cannot fight terrorism without allies, but these alliances bring with them new problems and at times make counterterrorism far more complicated, to put it gently. Clint W...
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Benjamin Wittes outlined what FBI Director James Comey’s letter to Congress does and does not mean. He also shared the comments of former NSA and CIA director General Michael Hayden on Sean Hannity’s new...
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This is a plug for a new cyber policy book out this month: Cyber Insecurity: Navigating the Perils of the Next Information Age, edited by Richard Harrison, Director of Operations and Defense Technology P...
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Review of David Priess's The President’s Book of Secrets: The Untold Story of Intelligence Briefings to America’s Presidents from Kennedy to Obama (PublicAffairs, 2016).
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A review of Mark Bradley's The World Reimagined: Americans and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2016).
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Benjamin Wittes argued for a non-partisan coalition of democratic forces to come together after the election to stand behind American democratic and legal institutions. He then outlined an agenda for how...
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Lawfare is now accepting spring internship applications. For more details, check out the Brookings application announcement and apply here.
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Monday, October 17 at 2pm: At the American Enterprise Institute, Roger F. Noriega will discuss Elusive Peace in Colombia with Juan Carlos Pinzon...
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Editor's Note: Countering violent extremism (CVE) is a perfect sound bite, a magic wand to solve terrorism before it happens. Yet many programs initiated in the name of CVE are poorly designed, and some ...
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Jack Goldsmith questioned the effectiveness of US cyber deterrence following the official accusations that Russia was behind the DNC hacks.
Jack followed up with some additional reactions to the Obama a...
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That is the title of a conference Ben and I are participating in next week in D.C. at New America, in conjunction with Arizona State University's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law and the McCain Institu...
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The next in our series of book soirees at the Hoover Institution's Washington Office will take place on Thursday, when Jack interviews David Priess about his new book: The President's Book of Secrets: Th...
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A review of Michael S. Neiberg's The Path to War: How the First World War Changed America (Oxford University Press 2016).
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Congratulations to Dustin Lewis, Gabriella Blum, and Naz Modirzadeh on the publication, just a few weeks ago, of their exciting new book, War-Algorithm Accountability.
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Editor's Note: The United States is more engaged in Africa than ever before. This increasing role is occurring as Africa struggles with political liberalization: although we’ve seen impressive successes,...
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Benjamin Wittes explained why he is withholding commentary on reports that Yahoo is scanning emails for U.S. intelligence agencies, arguing that analysts should wait until the underlying documents are pu...
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A week ago, Ben posed the following question about what might be termed the national security gap:
How have we come to a place where at least partly in the name of national security, a huge swath of th...