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Al Shabaab militants murdered approximately 20 people at a popular beach restaurant in Mogadishu last night, Reuters and Agence France-Presse report. The five militants set off bombs and stormed the rest...
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Multiple media outlets this week report that
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Aaron Stein comes on the show to talk about IS networks in Turkey. Some of the topics covered include:
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The brief Iranian detention and safe return last week of 10 U.S. sailors – and their equipment – would seem to have little in common with ongoing U.S. plans for Freedom of Navigation Operations (FONOPs) ...
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Taiwanese President-Elect Tsai Ing-wen during final campaign rally in Taipei (Photo: Reuters)
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Back in July, we wrote a lengthy piece about whether Apple could conceivably face civil liability for providing end-to-end encryption to criminals and terrorists.
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Steve Vladeck and I have a piece in the Washington Post today offering a formula to break the executive-legislative stalemate on Guantanamo—one predicated on the idea of designating a permanent site in t...
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On Wednesday, the Senate blocked the American SAFE Act, a bill designed to raise the security hurdles for Syrian and Iraqi refugees trying to enter the US. Coming on the heels of the Paris attacks, the b...
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The Defense Innovation Initiative (DII) is a DOD-wide initiative “to pursue innovative ways to sustain and advance the capabilities of the ‘force of the future,’” involving two key effort: the Defense In...
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This morning, Admiral Michael Rogers, the Commander of U.S. Cyber Command and Director of the National Security Agency, spoke at the Atlantic Council on his strategic priorities for 2016. Rogers discusse...
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Back for a rematch, John Lynch and I return to the “hackback” debate in episode 97, with Jim Lewis of CSIS providing color commentary.
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Last Wednesday, following more of the oft-renewed Administration calls to close Guantánamo, 10 Yemeni detainees were transferred to Oman—the biggest single transfer under the Obama administration. Meanwh...
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Last night, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) along with four other Republican co-sponsors, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Sen. Daniel Coats (R-IN), Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), and Sen. Joni Ernst ...
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At 2:00 pm today at Brookings, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer will discuss his new book The Court and the World: American Law and the New Global Realities. Brookings President Strobe Talbott w...
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Four Americans are freed in a prisoner swap with Iran. Twitter is facing a lawsuit over jihadist messages posted on the site. And Secretary of Defense Ash Carter is cracking down on just about everybody...
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A few weeks ago a Reuters article, “Pentagon Thwarts Obama’s Effort to Close Guantanamo,” described a scheme by which disloyal Defense Department officials—myself and General John Kelly, USMC, included—h...
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An attack in Pakistan left as many as 30 dead after gunmen attacked the Bacha Khan University campus in Peshawar. Four gunmen wearing suicide vests entered the campus and began shooting just after 9:00am...
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President Obama has sent 39 letters to Congress “consistent with” the War Powers Resolution requirements. The letters are a fascinating read and provide a 30,000-foot view of the Administration’s use of ...
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Paul Rosenzweig offers a critique of the Nuclear Threat Initiative’s report on cybersecurity risks at nuclear power plants that is summarized in his statement that
The NTI assessment is based on a lega...
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