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That is the title of a conference Ben and I are participating in next week in D.C. at New America, in conjunction with Arizona State University's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law and the McCain Institu...
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Yesterday Josh Earnest pledged that the United States would “will ensure that our response is proportional” to Russia’s hack of DNC emails, which the United States has concluded was “intended to interfer...
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The next in our series of book soirees at the Hoover Institution's Washington Office will take place on Thursday, when Jack interviews David Priess about his new book: The President's Book of Secrets: Th...
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Peter Keisler, former head of the Justice Department's Civil Division and Acting Attorney General of the United States, writes in with the following important point about my piece yesterday on Trump's th...
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After a brief period of moderated bombing, Russia has resumed its campaign of intensive airstrikes against rebel positions in eastern Aleppo, Reuters writes.
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A review of Michael S. Neiberg's The Path to War: How the First World War Changed America (Oxford University Press 2016).
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Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins issued the following statement yesterday on the resumption of pretrial hearings in the 9/11 case at Guantanamo Bay this week. His statement is also avai...
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International Community Struggles to Respond to Destruction of Aleppo
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The second presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton took place at Washington University in St. Louis in a town-hall conversation moderated by Martha Raddatz and Anderson Cooper. Thoug...
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On Friday afternoon, the United States formally accused the Kremlin of hacking and releasing Democratic Party information to interfere with the U.S.
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I hate to say "I told you so," but gosh, I told you so.
A few months ago, during Trump's ascendancy in the GOP primaries, I wrote a piece about his likely impact on and abuse of the powers of the U.S. D...
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As I noted last month, the oldest outstanding recommendation, unfulfilled since the 9/11 Commission report, is for Congress to fix its jurisdicitional morass and provide effective, unified oversight of t...
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
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As readers of Lawfare know, a growing number of States believe that use of force in self-defense against a non-state actor on the territory of a third State, without the consent of that third State, may ...
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In the extraordinary transparency that followed Edward Snowden’s 2013 revelations, one tantalizing mystery remained: how did the NSA persist until early 2009 in querying metadata under the now-replaced s...
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Congratulations to Dustin Lewis, Gabriella Blum, and Naz Modirzadeh on the publication, just a few weeks ago, of their exciting new book, War-Algorithm Accountability.
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What Options Does the U.S. Have After Accusing Russia of Hacks?, asks the headline in the NYT story yesterday by David Sanger and Nicole Perlroth. To ask this question is to reveal once again the ineffe...
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Editor's Note: The United States is more engaged in Africa than ever before. This increasing role is occurring as Africa struggles with political liberalization: although we’ve seen impressive successes,...
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Stephanie Leutert, the Mexico Security Initiative Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of Lawfare's "Beyond the Border" series, joined Benjamin Wittes on this week's podcast to talk...
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Benjamin Wittes explained why he is withholding commentary on reports that Yahoo is scanning emails for U.S. intelligence agencies, arguing that analysts should wait until the underlying documents are pu...
