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New NSA Documents on Offensive Cyberoperations
Jacob Appelbaum, Laura Poitras and others have another NSA aticle with an enormous Snowden document dump on Der Spiegel, giving details on a variety of offensive NSA cyberoperations to infiltrate and exp... -
President Obama Comments on Back-doors in Encryption
We've yet to find a transcript of President Obama's remarks during today's press conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron, but according to several news outlets, the President made a number o... -
There is Nothing Wrong with Comey Criticizing the NYT
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Five More Transfers From GTMO
The five detainees are Yemeni; four went to Oman, and one to Estonia, apparently. -
Did the FBI Just Prevent an Attack in DC from a Homegrown ISIS Supporter?
A very, very big arrest in Cincinnati today, involving allegations that a man named Christopher Cornell (online alias Raheel Mahrus Ubaydah) had planned to travel to DC in order to carry out an attack (v... -
Text of Senator Ayotte's GTMO Transfers Bill
As promised, here it is. The rather unfortunate-seeming proposal provides, in full: 114TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION S.__ To extend and enhance prohibitions and limitations with respect to the transfer or re... -
A New Bid to Restrict GTMO Transfers
The proposal, put forth today by Senator Kelly Ayotte and others, comes as no real surprise. -
Law Enforcement as a Counterterrorism Tool
As I read the exchange between Bryan, Wells and Jack about law enforcement versus military methods of dealing with terrorism, I was reminded of a speech I gave at the Brookings Institution in 2010, which... -
Now Will France Stop Paying Ransom for Hostages?
So now that France is "at war" with radical Islam, now that 1.6 million people and forty heads of state and prime ministers have turned out in the streets of Paris, now that the costs to a society of tol... -
France: At “War” With Radical Islam: A Brief Response to Jack Goldsmith
If someone had predicted a day that I would be agreeing with France’s socialist party Prime Minister more than with Jack Goldsmith, I would have told them I was more likely to be attacked by a crazed gui... -
On War and Crime
Yesterday at Lawfare, Bryan Cunningham sought to breathe new life into the “military versus law enforcement” debate over terrorism, along the way deeming the horrific assaults in Paris to be “consequence... -
Convening Authority Invalidates Military Commission Conviction
It seems the D.C. Circuit's commission jurisprudence is kicking in.
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