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In a significant setback to securing peace in Syria, the mainstream Syrian opposition group called for a halt to peace talks in Geneva today, announcing a new offensive against Syrian regime forces, and ...
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I want to engage in a thought experiment or, if you prefer, a wargame exercise. I want to look at what will likely happen in the days, weeks and months after Feinstein-Burr passes.
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Last week, Bob Loeb and Helen Klein examined the D.C. district court’s recent opinion in Al Razak v. Obama, which considered whether the war authorized by the AUMF has ended. I won’t recapitulate their e...
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Editor's Note: There is a popular misconception that the serious study of Islam is a step on the road toward radicalization and terrorism. Christine Fair, Jacob Goldstein, and Ali Hamza (all of whom I'm...
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Apple and the FBI may have settled the litigation over the San Bernadino iPhone, but that doesn’t mean the fight is over. With Congress on the verge of considering new legislation to compel technology co...
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Douglas Cantwell considered State Department Legal Advisor Brian Egan’s remarks at ASIL as they relate to the “Unwilling or Unable” test.
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Editor's Note: This post originally appeared on Markaz.
The relationship between Saudi Arabia and the United States has been deteriorating since 2000 due to serious and fundamental differences on Israe...
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For more than a decade the US and the European Union have been arguing about a Passanger Name Record system. PNR is the data and information collected by airlines when they sell you a ticket. It includ...
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Syria’s cessation of hostilities appears to be on the verge of collapse as government forces launched an attack on rebel positions north of Aleppo. The Washington Post writes that “a surge in fighting ac...
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Bobby Chesney, Susan Hennessey, and Benjamin Wittes just posed a "Quick question" to Apple's HR, that is, does Apple have a backdoor into their employee's work devices? In phrasing this question, it is ...
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Of Fighter Jets and Land Reclamation
Chinese Fighter Jet (Photo: The Maritime Executive)
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In the “going dark” discussion, it is a kind of orthodoxy that back doors are inherently insecure. Build in a means of someone other than the user accessing his data and you create unacceptable risk that...
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EU data protection authorities, the Article 29 Working Party (WP), have issued a comprehensive analysis of the proposed EU-US data transfer agreement. Privacy Shield, as it’s known, would replace the Saf...
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In September 2014 the Obama Administration announced its Counter-ISIL strategy, aimed to “degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL… so that it’s no longer a threat to Iraq, the region, the United States, and ...
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Just how sophisticated are the nations planning and carrying out cyberattacks on electric grids? Very, is the short answer.
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Yesterday, U.S. President Barack Obama convened a high-level gathering at the Central Intelligence Agency to assess the U.S.-led war against the Islamic State. Speaking from Langley after the meeting, th...
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The President had previously named Tom Donilon and Sam Palmisano as Co-chairs. Today, he announced the members of the panel, including our own Herb Lin. Congrats Herb. The Commission is due to file a ...
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Is the encryption debate driving everyone around the bend? That's the only explanation I can reasonably think of for some strange phenomenon I've seen lately. Case in point is Congresswoman Jackie Spei...
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As the U.S. Congress considers encryption legislation, the French Parliament continues to move forward with enhanced penalties for companies that fail to aid sufficiently the authorities in gaining acces...
