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Thomas Joscelyn comes on the show to talk about the so-called "Khurasan group." Some of the topics covered include:
Why the group came into being and when its members arrived in Syria
Who are the key...
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Today’s decision by the European Court of Justice on safe harbor – Maximillian Schrems v. Data Protection Commissioner, ably summarized by Lawfare’s Alex Loomis – ignores some very inconvenient truths ab...
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Russia’s intervention in Syria seems to have caught U.S. officials by surprise, although the build-up for it must have been going on for months and is unlikely to have been missed by intelligence agencie...
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The Washington Post reports that President Obama is considering leaving a standing U.S. force of 5,000 troops in Afghanistan beyond 2016. If implemented, that decision would represent a dramatic departur...
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The European Court of Justice (ECJ) invalidated the principal European component of the U.S.-E.U. Safe Harbor Framework today in Schrems v. Data Protection Commissioner.
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The Supreme Court heard argument yesterday in OBB Personenverkehr v. Sachs. The case was brought by Carol Sachs, a California woman seriously injured while boarding a train in Austria. She sued the railw...
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General John F. Campbell, Commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, testified before for the Senate Armed Services Committee on Military Operations in Afghanistan.
You can watch the hearing here.
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While the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (“JCPOA”) appears to have overcome the last major congressional hurdle to implementation, the latest quixotic attempt to tie sanctions relief to Iran’s paymen...
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My colleague Sam Moyn has a terrific essay at Dissent, the main thesis of which is the title of this post. He argues that progressives in the United States have since 9/11 prioritized civil liberties ov...
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Nearly seven years into his presidency, we probably shouldn’t be asking who Barack Obama is any more. We should already know him well.
Yet at least as pertains to the drone program, we have yet to figur...
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Given the amount of skepticism that writers on this site—including Jack and I—have expressed towards the Obama administration's cybersecurity posture towards China, I thought it was only appropriate to d...
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Administrative subpoenas, grand jury subpoenas, and search warrants are incredibly powerful tools, that interact strongly with the web's construction. For the typical web page is part of a world wide we...
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The controversy over President Obama’s “Iran Deal” concerning nuclear weapons during the spring and summer of 2015 intersects with ongoing debates over Israeli settlers, disputed territories, Palestinian...
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Is the GWOT (Global War on Terrorism) coming back? Or did it never really end?
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Bruce Schneier joins Stewart Baker and Alan Cohn for an episode recorded live in front of an audience of security and privacy professionals. Appearing at the conference Privacy. Security. Risk.
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By all accounts, what took place in the Afghan city of Kunduz over the weekend was horrific. It appears that several airstrikes hit a hospital run by Médecins Sans Frontières, killing more than twenty an...
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Editor’s Note: The United Nations can play an important role in counterterrorism, but it often fails to deliver. Much of the UN’s effort is channeled through the 1267 Committee, which designates terroris...
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Almost exactly four years ago, Anwar al Awlaki was killed in an American drone strike in Yemen, marking the first targeted killing of a U.S. citizen by the U.S. government. To Lawfare readers, it is like...
