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This is very good news. From the White House the other day:
Today, President Barack Obama nominated David Jeremiah Barron to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
“David Jeremiah Bar...
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By now, most readers will have heard of the New York Times story, alleging (based on disclosures from Edward Snowden) that the NSA has surreptitiously degraded a critical cryptography standard adopted by...
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The official launch event for the new site Just Security is taking place at this hour with an event entitled, "When Reporting is a Crime: National Security and the Press After Snowden and Sterling." The ...
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The other day, I was driving down Massachusetts Avenue talking on my car's speaker phone system to Rajesh De, general counsel of the National Security Agency. Raj had called me on my Google Voice phone n...
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On September 20th, Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA), a senior member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, proposed legislation that would amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance ...
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Thankfully, the seige in the Nairobi, Kenya mall has concluded, and authorities are shifting their focus to figuring out how it happened. Here's a pair of reporters from the New York Times with that news.
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More than 2.5 million service members have served in Iraq or Afghanistan over the past 12 years of war. A number of terrific memoirs and histories have been written about their efforts in war.
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Here's something I am very excited about: the Revolutions Podcast. Revolutions, which describes itself as "a weekly podcast series examining great political revolutions," is the latest project of a guy n...
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Here is the press release from the committee's website :
Washington—Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Vice Chairman Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) today announced the commit...
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We learn from the Washington Post that some of the Al Shabab gunmen laying siege to the Westgate mall in Nairobi, Kenya speak English. One of the 62 victims is a famous Ghanaian poet, Kofi Awoonor.
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In the category of "neat things you stumble upon" I recently came across this web page -- the ORIGINAL, first web page ever made publicly available on the World Wide Web.
For those who don't know the st...
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My Brookings colleague and occasional collaborator John Villasenor wrote in to flag a piece he's co-authored on the important topic of counterfeit electronics.
From John:
National security discussions o...
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I was honored to moderate a panel at Georgetown Law on Constitution Day, entitled "A Constitutional Conversation: The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in a Digital Era."
The panel, composed of Geor...
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That's the sum and substance of this Washington Post piece, which begins:
A former FBI bomb technician who later worked as a contractor for the Bureau has agreed to plead guilty to disclosing national de...
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Given today’s launch of Just Security (of which I’m one of the co-editors-in-chief), I thought it worth saying a word or two about me and Lawfare, lest anyone get the wrong idea about the new project, or...
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It's been a dark weekend across the globe.
The Westgate mall in Nairobi remains a war zone after al-Shabab militants opened fire on shoppers on Saturday, killing at least 62 and wounding almost 200. Her...
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In describing Hatim v. Obama (the D.C. Circuit Guantánamo appeal in which the government filed its opening brief on Friday) as the "counsel access" case, Raff has hit the nail on the head.
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The latest episode of Intelligence² Debates is over the resolution, "The U.S. Drones Program is Fatally Flawed." It's an interesting program, though I have to say that I think the Oxford Union debate thi...
