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As the week started, Lawfare continued with its coverage of last Friday’s presidential speech on surveillance reform. John wanted a strong condemnation of Edward Snowden, and was disappointed that the Pr...
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Naz Modirzadeh (Senior Fellow at the Counterterrorism and Humanitarian Engagement Project) has a paper in the latest issue of the Harvard National Security Journal that (i) posits the existence of distin...
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Don't want to read the entire 230+ page report of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board on Section 215? Have better things to do with your weekend, but still want to know what's happening? Th...
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The D.C. Circuit, in an exceedingly brief and quickly-issued per curiam judgment, has affirmed the district court's denial of Obaydullah's motion regarding newly-discovered evidence related to his habeas...
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The big news yesterday was the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board's rather hefty report on NSA surveillance. If you didn't catch Paul's post yesterday on whether the PCLOB overstepped its charge...
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Robert Work and Shawn Brimley of the Center for a New American Security just published 20YY: Preparing for War in the Robotic Age. It’s a provocative report about how many new technologies (in cyber, ro...
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Over at the New Republic, Sean Wilentz has this fascinating long piece about the ideologies of Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, and Glenn Greenwald.
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The Washington Post reported last week that the salaries for the federal judiciary increased on January 1 after federal judges won a class action lawsuit last year challenging Congress’s refusal to give ...
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Washingtonian has this remarkable piece by Asra Nomani, journalist and dear friend to The Wall Street Journal's Daniel Pearl. As is well known, Pearl was kidnapped in Pakistan in 2002 and gruesomely beh...
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As The New York Times and Washington Post reported, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) is going to issue a report on section 215 of FISA and the te
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Switzerland happens to be the location of a lot of action---or inaction---in the world:
As Clara noted, peace talks on Syria began in Montreux yesterday, and quickly spiraled into finger-pointing, accus...
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Here it is, via Ars Technica.
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I am a big fan of Peter Bergen. His book, Manhunt, about the search for Osama Bin Laden is one of the most useful and informative and gripping reads on a counterterrorism matter I have come across in a l...
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Last week PBS 'Frontline' released a short documentary on life under the Kim Jong Un regime (trailer below). Using illegal footage provided by an undercover network of journalists and North Koreans as a ...
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A report surfaced yesterday which details accusations of horrendous and wide-sweeping torture tactics employed by the Syrian government.
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It's been a busy day in cyber-related news. The last entry (for now) is the announcement in Davos of the creation of a Global Commission on Internet Governance. As readers of this blog know, I think th...
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Meanwhile, Verizon today became the first major telecommunications company to issue a transparency report about its interactions with the government when data about user activity is sought.
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CrowdStrike, a US-based cybersecurity company, has just released its annual Global Threat Report 2013. For those who follow the area, the report reflects some interesting (and disturbing) trends in mali...
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In December, East Timor initiated a case against Australia in the International Court of Justice. The facts are out of a Tom Clancy novel. In short, East Timor alleges that Australia bugged an East Tim...
