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Brookings Debates Arming Ukraine
Recent comments by Secretary of Defense-nominee Ashton Carter and Secretary of State -
The Intercept, SecureDrop, and Foreign Intelligence Services: A Response
Those readers who do not spend a lot of time on Twitter may have missed the beating Ben has been taking there for this post last week suggesting that the folks at The Intercept may be overestimating thei... -
Safe Havens Still Matter
Micah Zenko and Amelia M. Wolf, both with the Council on Foreign Relations, have a new piece in Foreign Policy which argues against the “myth” that safe havens allow terrorists a space in which to flouri... -
Senator Feinstein on the CIA Accountability Review Board
To the long-running story of the CIA-SSCI dispute--and to its most recent chapter, regarding the conclusions of a CIA Accountability Review Board---we can add today's statement by Senator Dianne Feinstei... -
Moral Obtuseness, Guantanamo, Boko Haram, and the Media
This morning's BBC’s NewsHour show opened with a news judgment reflecting a genuinely odd moral calculus. At the end of the show’s headlines section, announcer James Menendez says: “coming up later in t... -
There is Nothing Wrong with Comey Criticizing the NYT
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Misunderstanding Terrorism: Charlie Hebdo Didn't Provoke the Killers
Some commentators who have condemned the Charlie Hebdo killings have, in the same breath, criticized the publication for being unnecessarily provocative. -
What Americans Really Think About ISIS
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... -
<em>The Intercept</em> Finds an Anonymous Source It Can Trust
For years, Glenn Greenwald has been railing against against mainstream newspapers for, as he put it just the other day, "as usual---corruptly grant[ -
Obstacles Loom for States' Proposed "Fourth Amendment Protection" Laws
Legislators in several states have proposed bills over the past year intended to hamper the NSA’s efforts to collect signals intelligence. In Utah, the site of a large NSA data center, a proposed bill w... -
Federalist Society Podcast on "America In Retreat"
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... -
The Onion's Minotaur Video
No news source in any medium captures the CIA interrogation debate more fully than this video from the Onion, which bears reposting this week:
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