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Today marks the 150th anniversary of President Lincoln's delivery of the Gettysburg Address.
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On Monday, the Senate approved in a 91-0 vote to proceed to debate on the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act, and floor debate began today.
We've covered the competing bills on Lawfare, one passed ...
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Yesterday afternoon, the DNI declassified an 87-page FISC opinion authored by Judge Kollar-Kotelly that had allowed a bulk Internet metadata collection under FISA's version of the Pen Register statute,
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This latest set of declassified documents is related to programs authorized by Sections 501 and 702 of FISA.
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That, at least, seems to be what Ken Roth---executive director of Human Rights Watch---is arguing in this essay on the New York Review of Books web site. Entitled "The NSA's Global Threat to Free Speech,...
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Two hearings in one week on bitcoin. On Monday, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a hearing on virtual currencies.
Panel I
Jennifer Shasky Calvery (Testimony)
Directo...
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The government has filed its brief in Al Laithi v. Rumsfeld and Celikgogus v. Rumsfeld, a case involving the consolidated claims of former Guantanamo detainees against former government officials in thei...
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The Supreme Court today denied the Electronic Privacy Information Center's request for mandamus review of telephony metadata collection under Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act.
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This weekend saw some logistical hurdles in an otherwise surprisingly smooth road to Syrian chemical weapons elimination. A newly developed plan to transport the weapons out of the country by roads that ...
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Good discussion between Sen. Leahy and the Wall Street Journal's Siobhan Gorman and Politico's Josh Gerstein. Worth watching.
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Georgetown University political scientist C. Christine Fair has been a leading voice in challenging much of the conventional wisdom about the nature of conflict in Pakistan, including the role of US dron...
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Jeremy Hammond was sentenced to 10 years in prison yesterday. That's the maximum sentence he could have gotten for his plea of guilty to a single instance of hacking a computer.
Readers of this blog wi...
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Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Privacy---worldwide privacy, that is: Last week Just Security’s David Cole argued for the existence of a global right to privacy, a claim to which Orin Kerr disagreed on...
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I missed this a couple of weeks ago. It's pretty funny.
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Luca Urech (Fletcher School, MA candidate in Law and Diplomacy) has written in with the following reaction to my post on the extraterritorial right to privacy, discussing how we might apply the concept o...
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So reports Sari Horwitz at the Washington Post, who learned of this effort in an interview with Attorney General Eric Holder.
In Clapper v.
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Would a cyber attack on the most vulnerable nodes of the U.S. power grid paralyze us, or would we be prepared? That's what 10,000 war gamers tried to assess in a simulation this week.
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Great.
Just great.
The explosion is not all that impressive, but I sure wouldn't want to be on an airplane when it happened.
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This week’s much-anticipated decision by the First Circuit in Mehanna v.
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