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Lawfare is pleased to announce the publication of a new working paper in the Lawfare Research Paper Series: Presidential Elections: A Perilous Time for U.S. Intelligence, by Eric Manpearl.
From the abst...
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The death of the Islamic State’s chief propagandist, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, has removed the group’s most visible figure in its ongoing struggle to export terrorism abroad and expand its so-called caliph...
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How Facebook's seemingly innocuous "People You May Know" suggestions can easily be used to ferret out sensitive information.
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The recent campaign of violence in the Philippines has received plenty of attention. Since the election of Rodrigo Duterte, who campaigned on a platform of cracking down on crime, observers have estimate...
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Are you paying attention to Operation Odyssey Lightning, the U.S. air campaign underway for a full month now in Libya? Not many people are, which is interesting considering that we are approaching 100 ai...
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Editor's note: The Navanti Group is a data analytics company that uses a specialized network of local researchers to provide insight into local dynamics in hard-to-reach places around the globe. As the ...
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From a recent story on fedscoop:
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Turkish-backed Syrian rebels and Kurdish forces have agreed to a temporary pause in fighting in northern Syria, but Turkish officials insist that their military operations in the war-torn country will co...
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A few observations on the future significance of the recent Al-Nashiri ruling.
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Steve Vladeck this morning beat me to the punch on a key takeaway about the Al Nashiri II decision yesterday. But his attitude toward the subject is a bit different from mine. So while I agree with him o...
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The D.C. Circuit decided Tuesday that it would let a military commission take the first whack at a crucial issue in the prosecution of Abd Al-Rahim Al-Nashiri, the alleged mastermind of the attack on the...
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Unless you're someone who keeps a copy of Hart & Wechsler on your desk, you probably don't care that much about Tuesday's divided ruling by the D.C. Circuit in In re Al-Nashiri (which, for ease of refere...
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ISIS’s spokesman, Abu Mohammed al Adnani, has been killed in Syria, the New York Times reports.
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In the more than five years since Syrian calls for self-determination first began, the world has witnessed the most egregious humanitarian crisis since World War II unfold. Over 400,000 people have been ...
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Recently, I wrote the follow on the student site for CS 161 (Computer Security) which I'm co-teaching this semester at Berkeley.
A zero day is a vulnerability unknown to the rest of the world: there is...
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This morning, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals handed down a decision on Abd al Rahim al Nashiri's petition for a writ of mandamus to dissolve the military commission convened to try him. The court denied...
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According to a coalition of advocacy groups, a new proposal by DHS to seek information about the online presence of individuals trying to enter the United States from Visa Waiver countries—directly and v...
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Turkey has continued to move farther and farther into northern Syria, with Turkish forces no longer targeting ISIS but pushing into regions controlled by Syrian rebel forcesincluding the Kurdish YPG, Reu...
