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Why Ghosts in the Machine Should Remain Ghosts
Walter Haydock recently posted a proposal that the FBI build and deploy its own troll army, social media bots that he refers to as Artificial Intelligence Targeting Personas (AITPs). These would automati... -
Middle East Ticker: Assad Regime Corners Rebels in Aleppo, U.S. Reauthorizes Iran Sanctions, and Islamic State Prepares Its Fallback Plan
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Statement from Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins
On Saturday, December 3rd, Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins issued the following statement on the pretrial hearings to be conducted in the 9/11 case over the current week. His statement... -
The Limits of Air Strikes when Fighting the Islamic State
When it comes to the Islamic State, who doesn’t want to “bomb the shit out of them,” as our President-elect so eloquently put it? The group is violent, aggressive, and almost cartoonishly evil: torture, ... -
International Terrorism Prosecutions: Brooklyn Arrest
This week, federal district courts in Ohio and Illinois sentenced two men on material support charges. Meanwhile, another FBI counterterrorism suspect was arrested in Brooklyn, New York, and Dylann Roof,... -
Downbound Training
The United States spends massively on programs to train and equip allied governments and militias to help fight the war on terrorism. The Government Accountability Office has reported that between 2009 a... -
The Islamic State-Taliban Rivalry in Afghanistan
Editor’s Note: Radical Islam is not a monolith. The Lebanese Hizballah fights the Islamic State in Syria, Hamas has crushed al-Qaeda sympathizers in Gaza, and—most importantly from a U.S. perspective—al-... -
Ghosts in the Machine: Targeting Homegrown Violent Extremists with Artificial Intelligence-enabled Investigations
In June, a gunman slaughtered 49 people in Orlando, Florida, pledging allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the process. The following month, a supporter of the N... -
This Week at the Military Commissions, 11/15 Session: We’re Asking the Questions Now, Judge
On Tuesday, the case of U.S. v. Abd al Hadi al-Iraqi was called back to session but, this time, not with the usual players. Colonel Peter S. Rubin of the USMC replaced Captain Waits as the military judg... -
International Terrorism Prosecutions: Chelsea Bomber Indicted and Nine Minnesotans Sentenced
Nearly two months after his arrest, Ahmed Khan Rahimi was indicted in federal court in the Southern District of New York on Wednesday, on charges related to the September bombing and attempted bombings i... -
What’s the Matter with Visiting Kansas? Part II
Several weeks ago, we suggested President Obama take a trip to Kansas to visit a small town reeling from an attempted violent attack on a Muslim immigrant community there. At that time, three men had rec... -
Statement From Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins
Yesterday, Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins provided the following statement on pretrial hearings this week in the Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi case. The statement is also available here.
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