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The international community is looking to up the pressure on ISIS in Libya, and its turning to the newly minted Government of National Accord to do so. Yesterday, the United States along with 24 other na...
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In the week since the release of our sextortion reports, there have been a number of encouraging signs of legislative interest in the problem. The day Brookings released the reports, Rep.
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Like many of us on the internet, sextortionists rely on pseudonyms to carry out their work, whether in order to hide their identity online or to affirmatively present a false one.
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China Targets US Tech Companies in Security Reviews. "Chinese authorities are quietly scrutinizing technology products sold in China by Apple and other big foreign companies, focusing on whether they pos...
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President Obama has now been at war longer than any other American commander-in-chief. The New York Times writes that “if the United States remains in combat in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria until the end...
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The Court’s opinion in Spokeo v. Robins is here. I wrote about Spokeo when it was argued last November. My concern was that a ruling in Spokeo’s favor might limit Congress’s ability to provide private re...
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BRUSSELS, Belgium—As the escalator rises out of the Molenbeek subway station, the first sounds you hear are children laughing and calling out to one another. With entrances to the metro at either end of ...
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I've written here previously on the possible activation of the International Criminal Court's jurisdiction over the crime of aggression. Twenty-eight of the requisite thirty countries have now ratified t...
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Western and Chinese officials have battled over the meaning of China’s new Law on Foreign Non-Governmental Organizations’ Activities within Mainland China (NGO law) since it was recently approved by the ...
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Last Saturday, I wrote about press reports that the House and Senate Armed Services Committees were considering legislation to restrict the size of the NSC staff.
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I co-authored an article with David Shedd and Cully Stimson of the Heritage Foundation the other day. It is entitled Maintaining America’s Ability to Collect Foreign Intelligence: The Section 702 Progra...
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Last October, before the Islamic State’s terrorist attacks in Paris and Brussels, I argued that the security risks from Syrian refugees are, in general, low, but the potential ones are considerable if th...
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Susan Landau’s post suggesting agreement rather than disagreement between the Don’t Panic report and the ODNI response to it brings to mind the dialog in the 1977 Woody Allen film Annie Hall.
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This week on the show, Zachary Goldman and Samuel Rascoff of the NYU Center on Law and Security discuss their new edited volume, Global Intelligence Oversight: Governing Security in the Twentry-First Cen...
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Benjamin Wittes, Cody Poplin, Quinta Jurecic, and Clara Spera released their major new reports on "sextortion."
Cody Poplin featured Wittes’s online webcast discussing the new sextortion research.
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Hezbollah’s top military command was killed in a “major explosion” at Damascus airport.
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Last week, U.S. Army Captain Nathan Michael Smith sued the U.S. Government in federal court, seeking a declaration that Obama’s war against ISIS is illegal. Jack Goldsmith and Marty Lederman have put for...
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Editor's Note: Zachary Goldman and Samuel Rascoff recently released Global Intelligence Oversight: Governing Security in the Twenty-First Century.
