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On February 29, 2016, Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul and Senator Mark Warner, a bipartisan team, introduced legislation to create a National Commission on Security and Technology Cha...
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Two senior intelligence analysts at U.S. Central Command are claiming that the military forced them out of their jobs for telling the truth about President Obama’s war on the Islamic State.
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Nothing is completely secure -- not even the secure communications link between the Israeli Defense Force and its drones. As Small Wars Journal reports:
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Last week, in Al Razak v. Obama, a D.C. district court (addressing the habeas petition of Guantanamo detainee Haji Hamdullah) weighed in on one of the big questions in law-of-war detention at Guantanamo ...
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Army Col. James Pohl, the military judge presiding over the 9/11 military commissions trial at Guantanamo Bay, abruptly canceled this week's hearings on Friday, April 1st. (Insert obligatory no April Foo...
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On March 30, the Heritage Foundation held a day-long event entitled "The Role of Intelligence." Here's the agenda, along with the video of each session:
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It didn’t take the Brussels bombings to convince most experts that the terrorist threat to Europe is greater than that to the U.S. homeland. The November 2015 Paris attacks, the January 2015 Charlie Hebd...
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This week, Adam Segal of the Council on Foreign Relations joins Jack Goldsmith at a Hoover Book Soiree for a discussion of his new book, The Hacked World Order: How Nations Fight, Trade, Maneuver, and Ma...
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Benjamin Wittes told us that the “going dark” debate is not going away even though the FBI found a way into the San Bernardino iPhone. Paul Rosenzweig followed up, stating that the FBI vs. Apple respite ...
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The Nuclear Security Summit began yesterday in Washington where President Obama called for the United States and its allies to stand together against the nuclear threat stemming from North Korea. The Wal...
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Malaysian Officials Fish for a Response to Chinese Trawler Incursion
Chinese fishing vessel fleet (Photo: The Maritime Executive)
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According to this report from the normally reliable Think Tank Watch, The Heritage Foundation and the Brookings Institution will merge this year:
Think Tank Watch has learned that the center-left Brook...
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A prominent feature of The Atlantic’s recent retrospective on President Obama’s foreign policy decisions was whether the president’s refusal to follow through on threats of military action against Syria’...
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FBI Director James Comey isn’t backing down following the Justice Department’s decision this week to drop the court case to force Apple to help crack the San Bernardino iPhone.
In a major speech at Broo...
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President Obama hosted world leaders today in Washington for the 2016 Nuclear Security Summit focused on stopping nuclear proliferation. The Wall Street Journal writes that the summit comes amid increasi...
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It’s an extended news roundup with plenty of debate between me and Nuala O’Connor, the President and CEO of the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT). We debate whether and how CDT should pay more at...
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As the fourth Nuclear Security Summit gets underway, a nuclear sideshow quietly plods along. The Marshall Islands’ ten-part legal offensive against states which possess nuclear weapons, launched in April...
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Two days ago, Ben predicted that the respite from the Apple v. FBI fight would not be long. He was right. The FBI has now annouced that it will help the Arkansas police unlock an iPhone in an unrelate...
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The dispute between the FBI and Apple over a dead terrorist’s iPhone comes to an end, but new fights are just around the corner. Why did bombings in Pakistan and Iraq get so little attention compared to ...
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