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Moscow has warned the United States that the Russian military will use its air defense systems in Syria to stop any American attacks on regime forces, the Washington Post reports. Russia has deployed its...
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In episode 132, our threepeat guest is Ellen Nakashima, star cyber reporter for the Washington Post.
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Benjamin Wittes flags that much of the Yahoo story is unclear, including legal arguments and the objective of the search, and further reporting from Motherboard and the Intercept further confuses the pos...
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In a paper released today at a Brookings panel discussion, I reflect on my experience in the Obama administration and draw lessons about policymaking on issues for that space.
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A week ago, Ben posed the following question about what might be termed the national security gap:
How have we come to a place where at least partly in the name of national security, a huge swath of th...
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A review of Rosa Brooks' How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales From the Pentagon (Simon and Schuster 2016).
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After weeks of news suggesting a new strategic calculus may be emerging in the South China Sea, a number of joint military exercises reinforced the importance of traditional partnerships. However, anothe...
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In 2009, the government notified the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) of a serious issue in the design and description of the National Security Agency’s (NSA) Business Records metadata prog...
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New details have emerged regarding the FBI’s arrest of an NSA contractor for reportedly stealing documents from the agency. It remains unclear whether Harold Thomas Martin III, a Booz Allen employee, lea...
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A team from the ICC prosecutor's office (OTP) has begun a trip to Israel and the West Bank. Israel recently decided to allow the visit, something that had been in doubt previously (I've written here abou...
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I've gotten a few questions the last couple of days about why Lawfare has had nothing to say about that big story Reuters ran the other day on Yahoo, the intelligence community, and the scanning of all t...
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We haven’t seen a counterterrorism arrest out of the Washington, DC area in almost two months—not since a WMTA police officer was arrested in early August. But the Justice Department broke the dry spell ...
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[The post below is the latest installment of the joint blog series arising from the 2016 Transatlantic Dialogue on International Law and Armed Conflict.
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The vice-presidential candidates face off in their first and only debate before Election Day. Senators have buyers remorse over a law that lets families of 9/11 victims sue Saudi Arabia. And can the NSA ...
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After indicting five People’s Liberation Army (PLA) officers for cyberespionage in 2014, the Department of Justice was criticized for the lack of effectiveness of its action. However, a FireEye report re...
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Now that Congress has overridden President Obama’s veto of JASTA, many members of Congress seem to be experiencing buyer’s remorse as they contemplate the possible implications for the United States, inc...
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The FBI arrested an NSA contractor in August and is now investigating whether he stole and disclosed classified documents from the agency, the New York Times reports. Harold T. Martin III, a Booz Allen e...
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It is now clear to effectively everybody except those blindly following Donald Trump that the Russians are actively tampering with the U.S. election. It may have started largely by accident, when the tra...
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Hot on the heels of a New York Times story revealing that an NSA contractor was arrested in August for theft of classified info, DOJ has just released some initial details of an arrest that seems sure to...
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Vice Presidential candidates Senator Tim Kaine and Governor Mike Pence faced off at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia last night in the only debate between the running mates. The debate was a fa...
