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Earlier this week, the New York Times published a story by Charlie Savage, Eric Schmitt, and Mark Mazzetti informing us that the Obama administration had changed its interpretation of the 2001 Authorizat...
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Benjamin Wittes offered a defense of libertarian panic as a response to the Trump administration.
He also shared journalist Jonathan Rauch’s query for input from Lawfare readers concerning how to identi...
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In a diplomatic bombshell that could rock Sino-American relations, President-elect Donald Trump spoke with President Tsai Ying-wen of Taiwan on Friday.
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Has Lawfare changed? It turns out quite a few people think so, judging both by the private messages that have been coming to the founders of the site (me, Jack, and Ben) and by the post that Brett Max K...
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President-elect Donald Trump has chosen retired Marine General James Mattis as his Secretary of Defense, the Washington Post reports. Commentators on both sides of the aisle have hailed Mattis as a poten...
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Earlier this month, after more than a year of debate and amendments, the British Parliament passed the Investigatory Powers Bill (IP Bill), a law that authorizes surveillance powers virtually unprecedent...
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In late October, the EU lifted sanctions on Bank Saderat Iran and its London subsidiary, Bank Saderat PLC.
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On November 30th, the House passed H.R. 6393, the Intelligence Authorization Act for FY'17. While it remains to be seen what if anything ultimately emerges at the end of the process, I'd like to highlig...
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At last night’s stop in Cincinnati along his“Thank You Tour,” President-elect Donald Trump confirmed his intention to nominate General James Mattis to the Secretary of Defense post.
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Beijing continues to consolidate position in South China Sea
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A review of Kenneth Watkin's Fighting at the Legal Boundaries: Controlling the Use of Force in Contemporary Conflict (Oxford University Press, 2016).
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The next in our series of book soirees at the Hoover Institution will take place from 5-7pm today, Wednesday, December 7th, when Jack will interview Christopher Moran on his book Company Confessions: Sec...
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The remaining Syrian rebels in Aleppo are banding together in a new alliance to resist encroaching government forces, Reuters reports. The alliance is calling itself the “Aleppo Army” and is led by Abu A...
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As of midnight last night changes to Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure took effect. Opponents of the rule change failed in a last ditch effort in the Senate to block the change.
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I believe that lawful hacking is a legitimate and necessary way for law enforcement to handle certain investigations in the Digital Age. But as Steve Bellovin, Matt Blaze, Sandy Clark, and I said in our ...
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President-Elect Trump is zeroing in on a nominee for secretary of state. Election recounts begin amid fears of computer hacking. And in San Francisco, hackers hold the municipal railway system hostage. P...
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A bunch of people have told me over the last week that they have been at least somewhat reassured by Jack Goldsmith’s piece last week on “libertarian panic” and the Trump presidency—as, indeed, was I.
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It didn’t take long after Trump’s unexpected election as the 45th president of the United States for the encryption debate to reemerge.
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Syrian rebels have vowed to continue the fight in eastern Aleppo despite losing a third of their territory to a government assault earlier this week, Reuters reports. The rebels refuse to negotiate a sur...
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As three-dimensional printers have become widely available in electronics and appliance stores, they have begun to raise hard legal and regulatory issues related to firearms. The laws that govern firearm...
