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Jack Goldsmith and Benjamin Wittes offered a guide for those perplexed by FBI Director James Comey’s decision to revisit the investigation of the Clinton emails. They also assessed the role of Attorney G...
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In my analysis of the USS Decatur’s freedom of navigation operation (FONOP) near the China-occupied Paracel Islands last month, I wrote that the FONOP “probably” did not follow innocent passage and “most...
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The Washington Post reports that Iraqi forces entered six new neighborhoods in eastern Mosul today: Malaeen, Samah, Khazraa, Karakul, Quds, and Karamah. Their advance has opened a path for thousands of c...
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Editor's Note: This piece originally appeared on Markaz.
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The Washington Post recently ran a interview arguing that what’s fundamentally lacking in this election is more “empathy” for Trump supporters, including the most racist, misogynist, and xenophobic among...
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Philippine vessels access fishing grounds around Scarborough Shoal
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FBI Director James Comey is under fire for his actions in the home stretch of the presidential election. A journalist suggests private communications between Donald Trump and a Russian bank—but is there ...
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The Taliban killed two American soldiers outside of Kunduz today, the Wall Street Journal reports. The two died, along with three Afghan government forces and roughly 30 civilians, in a raid on Taliban c...
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Cybersecurity is, of course, very hard for any number of practical reasons, ranging from the complexity of the attack surface to the sophistication of persistent threats. And then, of course, there is th...
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Editor's Note: This post originally appeared on Order from Chaos.
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The noose around Turkish democracy’s neck tightened further on Monday, when the police raided the offices of yet another newspaper—...
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Since the United Kingdom’s June 23 referendum, the term “Brexit” has come to stand for much more than just the country’s prospective exit from the European Union.
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It may not feel like it, but the United States is well into the sixteenth year of two national emergencies. President Bush declared the first emergency on September 14, 2001, in the immediate aftermath o...
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As I prepared this week to address the more than 3,000 customers, stakeholders and other interested parties at our annual FOCUS conference—Intel Security’s annual cybersecurity conference—I thought a lot...
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My colleague Ben Buchanan and I have written a paper on cybersecurity threats to American elections. While we examine operations that try to influence American voters—like the much-publicized hack of var...
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Poor weather around Mosul has delayed Iraqi forces trying to clear the city’s eastern outskirts, the Wall Street Journal reports. Government troops plan to hold their positions until dissipation of the c...
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An Egyptian-American has been in pretrial detention in Egypt for more than 900 days—for helping street children. What is strange about Aya Hijazi's case is that she meets none of the obvious criteria for...
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Earlier this week we reassessed China’s compliance with 15 rulings contained in the July 12 U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea arbitral award.
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Editor's Note: Protests have erupted across Morocco over the last few days following the death of a fish seller in al-Hoceima. After local authorities - expecting a bribe - tossed his fish into a trash c...
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As the United Kingdom approaches the early 2017 start of negotiations on its departure from the European Union, questions are emerging about the future direction of the country’s EU-based data privacy la...
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Iraqi troops entered Mosul yesterday for the first time since the Islamic State gained control of the city over two years ago. The New York Times reports on Iraqi special forces’ advance into the Gogjali...
