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Never before in history have terrorists had such easy access to the minds and eyeballs of millions,” declared one journalistic account of the Islamic State’s propaganda machine and proficient use of Twi...
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The U.S. imposed new sanctions on Russia in response to the poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter earlier this year in the United Kingdom, reports BBC.
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It had to happen sooner or later: an actual slow week for national security law! Ugh! Well, time to make lemonade from the lemons. A slow week in NSL news means that we can take a run at a format that...
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Review of Loch Johnson’s “Spy Watching: Intelligence Accountability in the United States” (Oxford University Press, 2018).
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There are abundant recent examples of Congress exercising its...
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Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Order from Chaos.
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With Shane and Susan away, Ben and Tamara are joined by Quinta Jurecic and Shannon Togawa Mercer to answer the questions you submitted on Twitter! It’s a potpourri of NatSec analysis, with a dollop of hu...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted to propose new nuclear treaties with the United States during his meeting with President Trump in Helsinki, according to a leaked Russian document, seen by Politic...
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The U.S.-China trade conflict has continued to escalate, as both sides appear determined not to flinch among rapidly rising tariff threats. On Aug. 7, the U.S. Trade Representative announced the list of ...
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The 2018 “techlash” shows no sign of slowing. The last week of July saw the release of two papers containing proposals for significant increases regulation of tech companies, particularly with an eye tow...
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Encryption usually takes center stage in debates over digital evidence, and the sensitivities around the issue often halt discussions before reaching practical solutions. But on July 25, the Center for S...
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We’re officially on hiatus this month, but we just couldn’t stay away that long. If you can’t live without the Cyberlaw Podcast in your life, then you’re in luck. We’re releasing a couple of bonus episod...
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A U.S. airstrike mistakenly targeted a police outpost in Afghanistan, killing at least a dozen members of Afghan security forces, according to a spokesman for the Afghan governor of the Logar Province, r...
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Colombia circuit denied the habeas petition of Guantanamo detainee Moath Hamza Ahmed al-Alawi, upholding the ruling of the U.S. District Court for the Distri...
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On Aug. 25 2017, President Trump ordered the U.S. government to not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in the U.S. military. Two plaintiffs, Jane Doe 1 and Jane Doe 2, subsequently filed a ...
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Saudi Arabia Expels Canadian Ambassador After Accusing Her of Interfering in Saudi Politics
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We have complementary articles about the proper conception of lawyering for the president in times of crisis in the most recent issue of the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics that we thought might be of...
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Saudi Arabia’s military coalition in Yemen made secret deals with hundreds of al-Qaeda fighters, including paying them to abandon key cities and allowing fighters to retreat from disputed areas unmoleste...
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From 2015 to 2016, Israel experienced a wave of terror, dubbed the “knife intifada,” in which 47 Israelis were murdered. According to Israeli security sources, a majority of the attacks were carried out ...
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The Israeli legislature has taken another step toward blurring the lines distinguishing the Israeli legal system from the one that exists in the West Bank. The Knesset recently passed an amendment that t...
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