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As I mentioned the other day, I have asked my Brookings colleague Daniel Byman to curate a new feature on Lawfare: A weekly essay, to run on Sundays, on foreign and military affairs topics of interest to...
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NOCON//REL TO ALL: Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper declassified a trove of documents pertaining to pen register/trap-and-trace (PR/TT) collection pursuant to section 401 of FISA and b...
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The next items in our November NSA Trove, like those summarized in a prior post, focus on congressional oversight.
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Yesterday came news that the United States has been collecting British citizens' phone and email information. The reactions followed quickly. Sir Malcom Rifkind, chair of the parliamentary intelligence a...
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Tahrir Square, November 19, 2013.
As you enter Mohamed Mahmoud Street from Tahrir Square, a sign reads, “The borders of Egypt. Entry is prohibited for Muslim Brotherhood, Army and remnants of the Mubara...
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Our little November NSA Trove-a-thon will shift gears now.
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Here's is video of the conference on Tuesday at NYU's Center for Law and Security: "Law and Strategy in an Era of Evolving Threats."
The first panel dealt with "The Role of the Courts in Intelligence an...
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Your latest dispatch from the November NSA Trove: a trio of judicial opinions on internet metadata acquired, in bulk, by means of pen register and trap-and-trace ("PR/TT") devices. (Recall that, in 2004...
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Back in September, I wrote the following:
Imagine you were a high-level decision-maker in a clandestine intelligence agency. Imagine that you had played by the rules Congress had laid out for you, worked...
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Over at the Brookings Iran@Saban blog, my colleague Daniel Byman---who has agreed to curate a foreign policy essay feature for Lawfare (more on that later)---has this interesting essay on "Iran's Terrori...
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A few weeks ago, Bobby and John reacted to a Washington Post story reporting that seven hundred Afghan detainees at Bagram Air Force Base whom the US transferred to Afghan custody earlier
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The Times is reporting that an American drone has hit an Islamic seminary in northwest Pakistan early this morning. This is the first American drone strike outside of Pakistan's more turbulent tribal reg...
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Next in the November NSA Trove: the filling in of some additional detail, and in five different FISC-related documents, regarding the collection and handling, by the NSA, of telephony metadata on a mass ...
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The NSA had come knocking. It sought judicial permission to obtain, by means of pen registers and trap and trace devices, vast swaths of internet metadata within the United States. That request’s stagg...
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The latest tranche of declassified NSA materials is pretty big. But not all of the materials rank equally, significance-wise; at the same time, many of the documents---though undeniably important---are...
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Let's begin with the rather-sudden developments in a future U.S.-Afghan security agreement: Afghans want President Obama to admit American military errors in exchange for compromise on American counter...
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I have previously vented a bit of spleen at Rep. James Sensenbrenner---the former House Judiciary Committee chairman who helped write the Patriot Act---for his CYA behavior with respect to bulk metadata ...
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Long War Journal reports an airstrike on three AQAP fighters in Hadramout, Yemen, earlier today. By LWJ's count, this would be strike number 23 for the year (suggesting 2013 might fall short of 2012's h...
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This evening, the Senate voted on two GTMO-flavored amendments to the FY2014 National Defense Authorization Act.
One amendment was put forth by Senators Carl Levin and John McCain, and would have (among...
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Lisa Monaco, President Obama's counterterrorism advisor, gave the following speech at NYU School of Law this afternoon at this conference put on by the NYU Center for Law and Security on "Law and Strateg...
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