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This morning, Admiral Michael Rogers, the Commander of U.S. Cyber Command and Director of the National Security Agency, spoke at the Atlantic Council on his strategic priorities for 2016. Rogers discusse...
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Back for a rematch, John Lynch and I return to the “hackback” debate in episode 97, with Jim Lewis of CSIS providing color commentary.
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Last Wednesday, following more of the oft-renewed Administration calls to close Guantánamo, 10 Yemeni detainees were transferred to Oman—the biggest single transfer under the Obama administration. Meanwh...
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Last night, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) along with four other Republican co-sponsors, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Sen. Daniel Coats (R-IN), Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), and Sen. Joni Ernst ...
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At 2:00 pm today at Brookings, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer will discuss his new book The Court and the World: American Law and the New Global Realities. Brookings President Strobe Talbott w...
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Four Americans are freed in a prisoner swap with Iran. Twitter is facing a lawsuit over jihadist messages posted on the site. And Secretary of Defense Ash Carter is cracking down on just about everybody...
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A few weeks ago a Reuters article, “Pentagon Thwarts Obama’s Effort to Close Guantanamo,” described a scheme by which disloyal Defense Department officials—myself and General John Kelly, USMC, included—h...
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An attack in Pakistan left as many as 30 dead after gunmen attacked the Bacha Khan University campus in Peshawar. Four gunmen wearing suicide vests entered the campus and began shooting just after 9:00am...
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President Obama has sent 39 letters to Congress “consistent with” the War Powers Resolution requirements. The letters are a fascinating read and provide a 30,000-foot view of the Administration’s use of ...
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Paul Rosenzweig offers a critique of the Nuclear Threat Initiative’s report on cybersecurity risks at nuclear power plants that is summarized in his statement that
The NTI assessment is based on a lega...
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On Sunday, President Obama praised the historic nuclear agreement with Iran and the “power of diplomacy” following the release of five Americans.
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BAALBEK, Lebanon — The mud is red and deep this morning in the Bekaa valley. Children, undeterred, giggle and slide in their UNICEF-issued rubber boots. Snowy mountains rise out of the mist at the edge o...
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The fourth in a series of our book soirees at the Hoover Institution's Washington Office will take place this evening, when Ben interviews Gayle Tzemach Lemmon about her new book, Ashley's War: The Untol...
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A review of Saikrishna Prakash's Imperial from the Beginning: The Constitution of the Original Executive (Yale, 2015).
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Russia takes down more of the Ukraine. "IT systems at Kiev's main airport were floored over the weekend, sparking a renewed warning from Ukraine's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) about further...
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In the aftermath of September 11th, Sikh-Americans – marked by turbans, beards, and brown skin – were killed, stabbed, assaulted, and harassed, among other things. The frequency of this mistreatment ebbe...
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The State Department announced yesterday that the United States and Iran had agreed to settle one of the largest remaining claims outstanding at the Iran-US Claims Tribunal in the Hague and that in doing...
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NBC and YouTube hosted the fourth Democratic Presidential Debate on Sunday in Charleston, South Carolina featuring former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, and former Ma...
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Late last week, the Washington Post had an article asking the question whether nuclear power plants are at risk of cyber attack. The article was keyed to a much lengthier, detailed report from the Nucle...
