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The U.S.-Russian ceasefire agreement in Syria has collapsed, reports the Financial Times. Diplomats may still nominally seek to salvage the political agreement, but fighting has erupted again in Aleppo. ...
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I'm off in Las Vegas this week, but it turns out that Rational Security does need me. The gang discusses how the bombings in New York and New Jersey have fixed us again on the threat of lone wolf terrori...
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Since August 24th, Turkey has conducted a military operation—known as Euphrates Shield—in northern Syria. The objective of Euphrates Shield is to clear the border area between the towns of Jarablus and a...
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The United States is blaming Russia for the attack yesterday on an aid convoy in Syria, the BBC reports. Anonymous American officials claimed two Russian Su-24 attack aircraft were overhead when the conv...
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Last week, the ICC's Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) released a new policy paper on how it selects and prioritizes cases. The report generated plenty of media attention, largely because of its references ...
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The Justice Department has now issued a press release on the charges leveled against Ahmad Khan Rahami for his suspected role in the bombings this past weekend in New York and New Jersey. With the glut o...
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Rahami has been in custody (and in the hospital in Newark) for about two days at this point. The public record reveals very little about the interrogation process thusfar. What we do know is that federal...
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Rebecca Ingber (international law professor at Boston University and Lawfare contributor) has posted a new draft paper to SSRN (forthcoming in 42 Yale Journal of International Law No. 1, 2017), titled “C...
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Syrian Ceasefire Falls Apart
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In a federal district court in Washington, D.C. this past Thursday, Irfan Demirtas pleaded guilty to providing material support to the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU). Unlike many of the recent FBI...
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To see the Snowdenistas and many media elites clutching for their smelling salts, you’d think my former colleagues at the Washington Post editorial page had stabbed Edward Snowden in the back after swear...
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In a law-heavy news roundup, Katie Cassel and I talk about New York’s dangerously prescriptive cybersecurity regs for banks and insurers. Maury Shenk and I uncover the seamy industrial politics behind th...
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The father of the man suspected of engineering the bombs found in New York City and New Jersey on Saturday told police in 2014 that his son was a “terrorist,” briefly opening an FBI investigation, the Ne...
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Normally, when a terrorist attack happens, the shakeup in public opinion is thought to help Republicans. And many commentators today are wondering whether the attacks in New York and New Jersey might thu...
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Editor’s Note: This piece originally appeared on Markaz.
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The Congressional Research Service has issued a new report on "The Advocacy of Terrorism on the Internet: Freedom of Speech Issues and Material Support Statutes." The report is available below and can al...
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One sometimes thinks that consistency is the stock-in-trade of attorneys. We insist (sometimes even foolishly, pace Emerson) that words have consistent meaning and that the implications of how we use the...
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Jack Goldsmith’s response to my call for a pardon for Edward Snowden deserves a reply. I also have a few thoughts on what Susan Hennessey and Ben Wittes have now added to the debate.
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Prior to last week, one might have been forgiven for thinking that Edward Snowden had fallen out of the news. Now, however, Oliver Stone’s new film Snowden and the ACLU-Amnesty International campaign to ...
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