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I'm delighted to announce that I've persuaded the folks who run the excellent, must-listen Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast to host it on Lawfare. I started listening to this podcast---a weekly interview series ...
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The DNI yesterday released it's latest Guantanamo reengagement report, which show a 29 percent rate of confirmed or suspected reengagement. That's essentially unchanged from the last such report in Septe...
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This question occurred to me last week, after I served as an alternate juror in a criminal trial here in D.C. Two men were charged with, and---after two days’ worth of evidence---found guilty of robbing ...
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Stefan Soesanto writes in with the following thoughts on my earlier post on Russia's introduction of troops into Ukraine as an international law violation:
Amidst the ongoing political crisis in the Ukra...
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The world still is still watching Ukraine. The New York Times reports that President Putin stood by his recent actions in the Crimean Peninsula. Russia's President made his first public appearance since ...
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Russia's recent military actions in Crimea have many wondering what (and where) Crimea is, anyway. Here are the basics on geography and history.
Crimea is a Ukranian peninsula in the northern Black Sea ...
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The Russia-Ukraine conflict is quickly becoming a textbook example of low-grade cyber tactics that will likely occur in almost all future conflicts. It has yet to, thankfully, graduate to a full-scale c...
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Speaking of Australian spying on its regional neighbors and its lawyers, which we were the other day, the International Court of Justice has handed down a decision in a dispute between Australia and East...
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Over at Secrecy News, the estimable Steve Aftergood writes:
Could Congress legally compel the executive branch to disclose classified opinions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court? Maybe not, ...
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Events in Ukraine continue to dominate today’s national security conversations. The New York Times reports on Vladamir Putin’s first public remarks on the Crimean crisis, remarks that struck a defiant to...
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Several of my Brookings colleagues have gotten together to start a new technology policy blog, appropriately entitled TechTank.
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From last Monday, here is video of the Federalist Society's event, "The NSA, Security, Privacy, and Intelligence."
Panel I: Foreign Intelligence Collection and the FISA Court
Mr. Harley Geiger, Senior...
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Chatham House recently held a conference on autonomous military technologies, the focus of which was really the current debate regarding autonomous weapon systems. Kudos to Chatham House for leaning forw...
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As a service to Lawfare readers, we have compiled some other web commentary on the legal aspects of the crisis in Crimea.
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Well, not really. But you know that a trend is going against the NSA when the American Bar Association offers a course entitled, "The Ethical Implications of NSA Surveillance." According to the the ABA...
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All eyes remain locked on the Crimean Peninsula. On Sunday Russia sent an estimated 6,000 troops into the region, according to the New York Times, prompting President Obama to rally allies and embark on ...
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As a follow up to my post of yesterday about cyber in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict, here is another thought from Admiral (Ret.) James Stavridis, the former commander of NATO. In his view NATO should:
Co...
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Russian forces have seized control of Crimea and reportedly are digging trenches in the land bridge that connects Crimea with the rest of Ukraine. Is this a flagrant violation of international law regula...
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As the world watches the slow-motion catastrophe that is happening in Crimea and the Ukraine and wondering how it will all play out on the ground, many in the cyber community are asking a different quest...
