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The Malaysian government has turned to the United States for help in solving the mystery of missing flight MH370. The New York Times reports that Malaysia has asked the F.B.I. to help recover data from a...
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From the New York Times a few days ago: "Since the first Russian forces infiltrated Crimea on Feb. 28, Ms. Merkel, 59, has spoken to Mr. Putin, 61, at least four times on the phone, her spokesman says."
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As I wrote earlier this week, the big news recently in cyberspace was the announcement by the Department of Commerce, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, that it planned to effect...
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In an earlier post regarding MH370, I wondered why it was that transponders on airplanes were still capable of being turned off. I feel rather justified to realize that I’m not the only one asking the q...
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This week’s podcast covers the latest on NSA. We mock EFF overriding one of the privacy protections in NSA’s metadata program by killing the 5-year retention limit. We puzzle over the New York Times st...
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A disturbing news item: it appears that Russian soldiers have killed at least one Ukrainian soldier at a Ukrainian military base in the Crimea, possibly heralding a violent resolution to the tense armed...
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In breaking news, Barton Gellman and Ashkan Soltani of the Washington Post report that the NSA uses a tool that records every single telephone conversation in a foreign country and stores it for thirty d...
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I had an idea the other day---a way for NSA to serve the national interest, do good for humanity, and improve its public image all at once. Drum roll, please! NSA should get into the business of publishi...
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My Brookings colleague John Villasenor, who is also an engineering professor at UCLA, writes in with the following:
Last summer, the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children and Thomson Reut...
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When the Obama administration invoked the 1999 Kosovo intervention as a precedent in the run-up to the planned Syria invasion, I wrote a post that argued that Kosovo was not a precedent for lawful intern...
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Yesterday 83% of eligible voters in Crimea cast their ballots in what most of the Western world denounced as an illegal referendum, and 95% voted in favor of joining Russia.
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Amidst the flap between the CIA and the SSCI last week, you may have missed the news about the back-and-forth between NSA and the FISA court over whether the agency may, must, or mustn't retain telephony...
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Fools, they say, rush in where angels fear to tread. Proving that I am less angelic than foolish (and confident that the blogosphere will quickly forget these musings), I thought I'd offer a few Homelan...
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Editor’s Note: Although the “Israel lobby” and the support of the American Jewish community for Israel have long received considerable attention, the U.S. evangelical community and its strong backing for...
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Throughout American history occasional strategic thinkers have transformed the way we think about new domains of warfare and security. Alfred Thayer Mahan conceived of the geostrategic role of sea power ...
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It is almost axiomatic in Washington, that the bureaucracy buries news of which it is not proud with a release late in the day on a Friday afternoon. Though it is a bit harsh to say so, one suspects tha...
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Shane Harris was the first ever guest on the Lawfare Podcast, and today, he becomes the first ever return guest. The Foreign Policy writer has had a busy week covering the CIA-SSCI flap.
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The big news this week was the public explosion of long-simmering tensions between CIA and the Senate Intelligence Committee over a soon-to-be-completed report on Bush-era interrogation techniques. Wells...
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Worth noting: There have been four reported drone strikes in Yemen over the past two weeks. Long War Journal provides the details on the latest one here; LWJ's drone coverage in general is simply invalu...
