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In the past decade, the word “Guantanamo” has come to represent far more than the Cuban bay that lent its name to one of America’s oldest military bases more than a century ago; it has joined our 21st ce...
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On Monday, we reported on the temporary restraining order (TRO) issued by Judge Jeffrey S. White of the Northern District of California, which prohibited the government from destroying telephone metadata...
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Last week Ben linked to the ICJ’s decision on provisional measures in the case that Timor-Leste (TL) has brought against Australia. The Brisbane Times and other news outlets cast the decision as one req...
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Published by Potomac Books (2013)
Reviewed by S. Yasir Latifi
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In an interview conducted yesterday at the Council on Foreign Relations, CIA Director John Brennan had an interesting exchange with Audrey Kurth Cronin on the subject of al Qaeda’s organizational scope. ...
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As we’ve been explaining, there’s drama in the U.S. Senate. It's not just your usual partisan bickering, either. Yesterday, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D–CA) took to the Senate floor to accuse the CIA of ...
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Senator Feinstein’s remarkable floor statement yesterday has thrown further fuel onto an already volatile mix of intelligence and oversight issues related to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s...
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Senator Feinstein recently claimed that the CIA may have violated the federal computer hacking statute, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, by searching computers used by the Intelligence Committee to cond...
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You can find the Senator's statement here.
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Edward Snowden delivered a fiery speech by video-conference at South by Southwest in Texas. Snowden denounced mass surveillance for damaging both privacy and security (as it distracts from the targeting...
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In the latest episode of the Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Jason Weinstein and I cover a host of topics.
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The Senate Armed Services Committee is currently holding hearings with two nominees for high-ranking military posts: General Paul J. Selva, USAF is being considered for commander of United States Transpo...
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Right now, Senator Dianne Feinstein, the Senate Intelligence Committee's Chairman, is speaking out, on the Senate floor, about a well-publicized dispute between the CIA and the SSCI---regarding the latte...
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Editor’s Note: The Russian military occupation of the Crimea and Russian president Vladimir Putin’s attempts to railroad a political settlement that would separate Crimea from the rest of Ukraine is the ...
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Earlier today, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey S. White of the Northern District of California issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting the government from destroying call record metadata in the 215 ...
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Last month, the American Bar Association wrote to General Keith Alexander to express concern over press reports that overseas snooping by U.S. allies had intercepted communications by U.S. lawyers and th...
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I’m usually a big fan of Ben’s cogent observations on Washington’s folkways. Unfortunately, I can’t be as enthusiastic about Ben’s reply to my earlier post on Harold Koh’s memos regarding extraterritori...
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I want to take issue with Peter Margulies’s laudatory remarks this weekend about the Harold Koh memos on extraterritorial application of the ICCPR and the CAT---you know, those memos that mysteriously sh...
