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Last night, President Obama nominated Tom Malinowski, the director of Human Rights Watch's Washington office, to be Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy Human Rights and Labor, succeeding Michael P...
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Let’s begin with news of Edward Snowden, because you don’t hear enough about him. Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras of the Guardian have a two part interview with him about his motives and about his thou...
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Earlier today I linked to Walter Pincus' assessment of the Snowden affair. I now have Glenn Greenwald's response. Here's some of what he had to say:
Apparently, some establishment journalists have de...
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It was a terrible day by 6 am Monday morning, and it has been getting worse all day. What we know: 51 people died from gunshot wounds that they sustained outside the Republican guard facility, and 435 ot...
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Walter Pincus of the Washington Post has an excellent analysis today in is "Fine Print" column. Though he has been portrayed as a classic "Lone Wolf, it appears likely that Snowden actually had support ...
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Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, Professor Orin Kerr has a thought-provoking post on one route to reform of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court: have Congress give an adversarial role to the Oversi...
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The Electronic Privacy Information Center ("EPIC"), an advocacy and litigation group, today petitioned for a writ of mandamus or prohibition, or a writ of certiorari, in the Supreme Court. The filing's ...
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A pretty strong signal from Judge Gladys Kessler, who today rejected GTMO detainee Jihad Dhiab's motion for a preliminary injunction to stop force feeding.
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I’m back! I missed you terribly, dear readers, while I was busy eating home-cooked food. And fear not, I won't be going anywhere for some time. A big round of applause goes to Raffaela for steering the ...
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Tahrir Square is full tonight. Tamarod marchers converge on downtown from all over Cairo. Rabaa el Adaweya is packed as well again today, only with Morsi supporters.
I haven't written yet in this diary ...
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While Ben has already noted the big NY Times report on the FISA court, I thought I would call attention to the other big story in today's paper -- the Washington Post article on how the US maintains acce...
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This will be a remarkable and interesting event, to say the least. The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (for a quick overview of the slow process by which the PCLOB has (sort of) gotten off t...
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The transatlantic dialog on security matters often has a frustrating ships-passing-in-the-night quality to it. So I was interested to see this unusually constructive and valuable policy paper on drones a...
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Several recent high-profile news items have shone a spotlight on the relationship between the government and private industry in national security matters, an area not frequently discussed in the media.
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Eric Lichtblau of the New York Times has this important story in today's paper:
In more than a dozen classified rulings, the nation’s surveillance court has created a secret body of law giving the Nation...
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Egypt has a new Prime Minister---or not.
State news media announced on Saturday that Mohamed ElBaradei, Nobel Prize winner and outspoken critic of the Brotherhood and the Mubarak regime, had been appoin...
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Nathan Myhrvold writes in with the following addendum to his paper, "Strategic Terrorism: A Call to Action," which we published the other day:
In the days since Ben posted my paper, I've been asked a fa...
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It was a somewhat light week for us here at Lawfare---though an exceedingly tumultuous one, obviously, for Egypt.
We covered the latter's unrest and coup by means of an exciting and experimental feature...
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That's the sum and substance of this Reuters piece (run here in the New York Times). It begins as follows:
CARACAS — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro offered asylum to former U.S. intelligence contra...
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Mukhtar Yahia Naji Al Warafi is seeking en banc review of his habeas petition from the D.C. Circuit. Best of luck with that.
A panel of the court affirmed Al Warafi's detention back in May. Lots of cove...
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