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Today's Headlines and Commentary
The Syrian ceasefire brokered by the United States and Russia remains largely intact as residents -
Why Obama Should Pardon Edward Snowden
I have signed on to the letter asking President Obama to pardon Edward Snowden that was released today. I know this will be an unpopular position among many of my former colleagues in the national securi... -
Apple's Cloud Key Vault and Secure Law Enforcement Access
Michael Specter and the “Keys Under Doormats” (KUD) group have an interesting post, entitled “Apple's Cloud Key Vault, Exceptional Access, and False Equivalences” responding to my earlier post on Apple’s... -
President Obama Should Veto JASTA
Steve Vladeck and I disagreed about the virtues and vices of the original JASTA bill. But we agree that the version of JASTA now on its way to the President’s desk—which reflects dramatic changes introd... -
Livestream of "The National Security Division at 10: Past, Present, and Future"
A major event celebrating ten years of the Justice Department's National Security Division is taking place at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Here's the livestream:Here's ...
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Today's Headlines and Commentary
A nationwide ceasefire brokered by the United States and Russia is mostly holding across Syria. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that it has not recorded a civilian death from fighting in... -
Middle East Ticker: A New Syrian Ceasefire and a Saudi-Iran Oil Spat
What to expect from the new ceasefire in Syria. -
A New Drone Use We Can All Support?
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Russia and Libya: A Brief History of an On-Again-Off-Again Friendship
Editor's Note: This piece originally appeared on Order from Chaos. *** -
This Week at the Military Commissions, 9/9 Session: 1,300 Pounds of Discovery
It’s Friday, we’re wrapping up the first week back in Al Nashiri, and al-Nashiri himself is back in the courtroom. After some characteristically Guantanamo housekeeping—with only one courtroom, Judge Spa... -
Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet
Over the past year or two, someone has been probing the defenses of the companies that run critical pieces of the Internet. These probes take the form of precisely calibrated attacks designed to determin... -
CYBERCOM's Upcoming Law Conference
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Why Central Americans Keep Coming
Over the past eleven months, 42,405 Central American unaccompanied children under the age of eighteen have been picked up by the U.S. Border Patrol, in addition to another 61,575 families. That’s on top ... -
The ICANN and IANA Transition End Game
Two years ago, the Obama Administration announced its decision to allow a contract with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to lapse. The practical implicaiton of that decisio... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov successfully hammered out a Syrian ceasefire deal in Geneva on Friday. At sunset on Monday, hostilities formally ceased for seven ... -
Whether the South China Sea Arbitral Award Matters Will Depend Almost Entirely On the U.S.
It has been two months since the UN Convention for the Law of the Sea arbitral tribunal issued its blockbuster award ruling against China’s maritime claims and activities in the South China Sea. Given al... -
Libya's Implosion and What it Means for the West
Editor's Note: This post originally appeared on Markaz. *** -
The Week That Will Be
Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar) Monday, September 12th at 2:30pm: The Brookings Institution will host a discussion featuring Shirley Lin on her new book, Taiwan's China Dilemma... -
Accountability for Algorithmic Autonomy in War
The Defense Science Board recently identified five “stretch problems”—goals that are “hard-but-not-too-hard” and that have a purpose of accelerating the process of bringing a new autonomous capability in... -
Attribution of Malicious Cyber Incidents: From Soup to Nuts
For those interested—a (prepublication) review paper on attribution of malicious cyber incidents that synthesizes a number of previous works on the subject and adds a few new insights on the topic. Abstr...
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The Situation: A Used Plane That Needs Work
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