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Yesterday's Special Operations Forces raid on an al-Shabaab facility in Baraawe, Somalia, and the near-simultaneous capture-and-rendition of an al Qaeda figure in Tripoli, raise a number of interesting l...
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At the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing the other day on NSA programs, I talked a lot about the importance and centrality of compliance procedures. And I quoted a quip by NSA's compliance chief, Joh...
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I have noted how openly the United States has been leaking information about its covert action to support moderate Syrian rebels – from its inception through the supposed recent ramp-up. I notice via a
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When it comes to detention and drone strikes, both critics and supporters of the status quo assume that abandoning the armed-conflict model would have not just diplomatic and legal effects but also a sig...
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Two pieces in the news worth noting on the issue of secrecy v. transparency in the U.S. intelligence world.
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Here's a new addition to the Lawfare Wiki Document Library: A set of resources on this year's FISA leaks and declassifications. Our amazing intern, Nicholas Basciano, is still working it---so please emai...
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For those readers who missed our experiment with live webcast programming through the West LegalEdcenter, here's your second chance.
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My fellow Americans, we have achieved a major victory in the War on Law Reviews. I’m thrilled to announce the next paper in Lawfare Research Paper Series: David Kris’s “On the Bulk Collection of Tangible...
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Below you'll find links to all the prepared testimony associated with today's open hearing, a rarity, before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence:
Panel I (joint statement)
Director of National...
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By now, most readers will have heard of the New York Times story, alleging (based on disclosures from Edward Snowden) that the NSA has surreptitiously degraded a critical cryptography standard adopted by...