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If you've noticed any slowness in Lawfare's performance this morning, the reason is another denial of service attacks.
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In October 2015, I became a citizen of the United States, after a decade of refuge here from my native Syria. In June 2016, I took my first trip to Europe since coming to this country. With my own native...
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The U.S. expanded its war against the Islamic State into Libya yesterday, using both manned warplanes and drones to conduct airstrikes in the coastal city of Surt. The strikes, which seek to weaken the I...
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Judge Pohl calls the session to order. Optimism for a productive day is in the air. We’ll get through at least four motions today, and are on track to finish up the open sessions and get into this week’s...
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In a fractured exchange with George Stephanopoulos, Republican nominee for president Donald Trump made a number of remarks that strongly implied he did not realize Russia had already annexed Crimea and c...
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National security was a key tenet of Hillary Clinton’s acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday evening.
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Monday, August 1st at 12:45pm: Edward Schumacher-Matos, director of the Edward R. Murrow Center at Tufts University, will speak on The Future of...
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In May 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that search engine operators in the EU are responsible for handling individuals’ requests to remove links to personal information that...
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Editor’s note: This post also appears on Just Security.
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As experts debate the policy implications of the DNC hack and need for attribution, there appears to be consensus that campaigns need better cybersecurity. The unanswered question is how exactly to ensur...
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Politicians and analysts in Europe and the United States understandably focus on the threat the Islamic State poses to the West, and the debate is fierce over whether the group’s recent attacks are a des...
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Shadi Hamid is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Project on US Relations with the Islamic World and the author of the new book Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam Is Reshapin...
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This week’s news was dominated by the Demoncratic Convention and allegations that the Russian government hacked the DNC, perhaps to aid Republican nominee Donald Trump.
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has officially accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for the presidency, becoming the first woman to become a major party nominee in the United States. Clinton por...
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Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins released the following remarks yesterday at Guantanamo Bay preceding pre-trial hearings in Khalid Sheikh Mohammad et al. The hearings today and yesterda...
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I know we promised to take August off, but I was inspired by the flap over the DNC hack and the fact that I’m at the Aspen Homeland Security Working Group meeting in Colorado. I waylaid two former intell...
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President Obama’s speech last night at the Democratic National Convention has been widely understood as pointed thematic rebuke of Donald Trump.
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Critics of state investigations of alleged violations of the law of armed conflict (LOAC) often accuse those inquiries of being insufficiently independent from the chain of command. Medicins Sans (MSF, a...
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All are, by now, no doubt familiar with two factor authentication. It is the idea that when I try and log-in somewhere besides my user name and password I have to give additional authentication that ver...
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U.N. Syria Envoy Staffan de Mistura urged the United States and Russia to work together in reducing violence in the wartorn country, warning that any breakdown of collaboration between the two powers cou...
