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After a nearly two-year long process, the Department of Defense has drafted a legislative proposal to reform the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). At the end of December, the DoD forwarded its pro...
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Today marks the fourteenth anniversary of the opening of the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay.
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Harvard Law Review has published a new issue, now available online, which includes a feature article and several responses concerning the role of the President and National Security Council in overseeing...
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When CISA passed the Senate back in October, many commentators warned of the panoply of ways in which a hypothetical DHS information-sharing portal would function to allow companies to collect and then f...
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With the ruling in Al Bahlul IV still outstanding, the D.C. Circuit is set to hear argument next month on the military commission trial – yet to take place – of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the Guantánamo de...
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The Independent reported this weekend on the status of the United Kingdom's investigations into allegations that its forces committed war crimes in Iraq:
Dozens of cases in which British soldiers are a...
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Editor's Note: The Saudi-Iranian rivalry has long been a driver of instability and extremism in the Middle East, and this tension grew even worse when the Saudis executed Nimr al-Nimr, a Shiite cleric an...
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This week we have Nick Weaver on the show. Nick's a regular Lawfare contributor, senior staff researcher at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California, and as you’ll see, quite ...
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Welcome to the first Week That Was of 2016. Here’s a rundown of the happenings that defined the start of the new year.
In Sunday’s Foreign Policy Essay, Renanah Miles and Brian Blankenship examined Chin...
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Susan Landau’s posting addresses a number of issues that have also been conveyed to me offline by others. My original post suggested that the vendors could use software updates to install wiretapping ca...
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Are U.S. special forces preparing the ground for the liberation of Mosul? That would seem to be the case, if Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament Salim al Jabouri is to be believed. In an interview with Reute...
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Earlier this week, former State Department legal adviser John Bellinger highlighted the increasingly vocal U.S. concerns about the International Criminal Court (ICC) acquiring jurisdiction over the crime...
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The fourth in a series of our book soirees at the Hoover Institution's Washington Office will take place next January 19, when Ben interviews Gayle Tzemach Lemmon about her new book, Ashley's War: The Un...
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The Rational Security gang starts the year with our 50th episode. Kim Jong-un says North Korea tested a hydrogen bomb. The Russians may have caused a blackout in Ukraine with a cyber attack. And Presiden...
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As many Lawfare readers know, several years ago Steve Bellovin, Matt Blaze, Sandy Clark, and I presented the idea of using vulnerabilities already present in devices as a way to facilitate court-authoriz...
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Editor's Note: Welcome back to Water Wars! Following our holiday hiatus, this first edition of the new year will look back at the major events in the Asian Pacific since our last post in late November. N...
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The Pentagon has transferred two long-cleared Guantanamo Bay detainees, Khalid al Dhuby and Mahmoud Omar Bin Atef, to the West African nation of Ghana, marking the first time that the United States has t...
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Over the holidays the UN General Assembly formally adopted this year’s resolution on information security. The text, which mandates the creation of a new Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) for 2016-2017...
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The UK Joint Committee on the Draft Investigatory Powers Bill has released written evidence submissions on the legislation. A number of US companies—including Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft—and policy gr...
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