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The 2016 election has put squarely on the public agenda a series of questions related to the norms of social media, everything from the proliferation of fake news on Facebook to the trolling culture of T...
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Editor’s Note: This piece originally appeared in Markaz.
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The Intelligence Studies Project at the University of Texas-Austin will award a postdoctoral fellowship in intelligence studies to a promising young scholar for the 2017-2018 academic year. This unique ...
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President-elect Donald Trump continued to attack the intelligence community in tweets last night and early this morning, backing Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s assertion that Russia was not involved ...
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Department of Justice Dismantles International Criminal Cyber Infrastructure
On December 5th, the Department of Justice, alongside numerous other domestic, foreign, and international agencies, announced...
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We start 2017 the way we ended 2016, mocking the left/lib bias of stories about intercept law. Remember the European Court of Justice decision that undermined the UK’s new Investigatory Powers Act and s...
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The Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare is the most comprehensive and thoughtful work to date on the applicability of existing international law to cyber warfare.
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ISIS has claimed responsibility for the New Year’s shooting in an Istanbul nightclub, which killed at least 39 people, The New York Times reports.
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New Syria Ceasefire Holding for Now
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Who is the enemy in American counterterrorism? Is it the Islamic State, the broader jihadist movement, or a set of ideas about the role of religious and politics, often labeled “radical Islam?”
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The next in our series of book soirees at the Hoover Institution will take place from 5-7 pm on Monday, January 9, when Jack will interview Jameel Jaffer on his new book The Drone Memos: Targeted Killing...
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My recent post on the top-side briefing in Hernandez v. Mesa, the Fourth Amendment cross-border shooting case pending at the Supreme Court, struck a nerve with my friend Steve Vladeck, who is one of the ...
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Data is a "magic material" that "is becoming the fuel for innovation,” says former European Commission Vice President Neelie Kroes. But getting this “magic material” out of the EU is a complicated busin...
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A little-noticed bill to amend the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (“FSIA”) passed both houses of Congress in December and was signed into law by President Obama on Dec. 16, 2016.
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A variety of recent reports have noted complaints that the sanctions on Russia for its meddling in the November election are insufficient. For example,
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Chinese aircraft carrier conducts groundbreaking naval exercises
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As expected, the Obama Administration today announced some of its response to Russian interference in the U.S. election.
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If you are one of the many readers who has donated to Lawfare this year, I want to take this opportunity to thank you. Your support means a great deal to us as we continue to grow. This year has seen ast...
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The other day, Quinta and I noted that counsel for Abd al Rahim Al-Nashiri had asked the court in his habeas case to have a copy of the Senate Intelligence Committee's interrogation report filed under se...
