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The revolt against the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (greater Syria), usually referred to by its acronym ISIS, is the latest dramatic turn in the Syrian civil war. In the last few weeks, a range of r...
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Just in case you want to read something not about reforms to NSA surveillance: here's the opinion from the D.C. Circuit in Al-Janko v. Gates.
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Hmmmm. Here's a very interesting few paragraphs from the Wall Street Journal:
The president's speech, to be delivered at the Justice Department, caps a process that was similar to the one he undertook on...
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Last fall, during the debate on airstrikes in Syria, commentators argued that the United States needed to act in order to preserve the credibility of American threats.
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Your Lawfare team is ready with pen and paper, and bated breath, to hear oral arguments in the habeas-related appeal of Afghan detainee Obaydullah before the three-judge panel of D.C. Circuit Court of Ap...
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David Sanger and Thom Shanker have a lengthy story in the NYT about various NSA techniques for penetrating foreign computers and networks, including a strategy for accessing seemingly air-gapped computer...
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The Supreme Court today denied cert in the Samantar case, rejecting the Government’s recommendation to grant, vacate, and remand to the Fourth Circuit and instead allowing the Fourth Circuit’s decision t...
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Who will run cyberspace? It’s one of the most important questions in the world today. Yet few outside a narrow group of policy wonks, lawyers, technologists, and international bureaucrats are paying a...
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The Syria conflict hasn’t really stayed in Syria. The trickle of Sunni jihadists traveling to Syria to fight quickly became a flood, with their numbers rapidly surpassing those in past wars, the anti-Sov...
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Did the government reveal the presence of US military advisors in Somalia in order to beat the Guardian or some other Snowden outlet to the punch?
Earlier today, Jack posted about the likelihood that th...
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The Washington Post reports that Senator Paul “plans to introduce legislation to repeal the use-of-force resolution that paved the way for the Iraq war,” and notes that President Obama supports the repea...
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On Monday, the Departments of Justice and State filed an amicus brief in the Second Circuit urging affirmance of a district court's dismissal of an ATS/TVPA lawsuit filed against former Mexican President...