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Ben announced Wells’s forthcoming departure from Lawfare and invites you to come work for the team, especially if you are "someone who everyone enjoys and who utterly lacks Washington pomposity."
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On Wednesday, SDNY Judge J. Paul Oetken ruled on the New York Times’ and DOJ’s cross-motions for summary judgment in a FOIA suit seeking documents related to federal prosecutor John Durham’s 2008 to 2012...
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Following growing frustration on the part of the United States and allies concerned with Russia’s seemingly exclusive targeting of non-ISIS enemies of Bashar al Assad’s regime in Syria, Russian airstrike...
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The role of U.S. forces in helping the Afghan government retake Kunduz from the Afghan Taliban has drawn attention to the complicated mix of legal and policy constraints currently governing U.S. operatio...
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I missed this week's Rational Security taping, as an unfortunate result of a taekwondo sparring accident (the other guy is, alas, fine). But Shane and Tamara soldiered on without me. They talked Russian ...
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Before concluding his first state visit to the U.S., Xi Jinping traveled several hours north from Washington to tick another item off his list of firsts as PRC Premier: addressing the UN General Assembly...
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I recently had the pleasure and privilege of convening a workshop on the legal aspects of hybrid warfare and influence operations at the Strategy and Security Institute of the University of Exeter in the...
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As most readers will know by now, Russia's military intervention in Syria on behalf of the Assad regime looks like it will not be limited to operations against ISIL or al Nusra.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit sat en banc Wednesday afternoon for the first time in almost two years. The occasion? An otherwise-mundane tax fraud prosecution that propelled the Four...
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Last week, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping launched a soft power battle in America. It’s a battle being replicated in capitals throughout the world at the moment, wit...
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It may not be a stretch to say that the entire Western strategy in Syria has collapsed in the last 72 hours.
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Last week, the Court of Justice for the European Union’s Advocate General published an opinion that casts doubt on the future of the so-called United States-European Union “safe harbor framework”—a legal...
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Cyberlaw negotiations are the theme of episode 82, as the US and China strike a potentially significant agreement on commercial cyberespionage and Europeans focus on tearing up agreements with the US and...
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Early this month, Congressman Patrick Meehan (R-PA) was joined by Representatives Jackie Walorski (R-IN) and Sean Duffy (R-WI) in introducing H.R. 3457, the Justice for Victims of Iranian Terrorism Act. ...
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It is with a heavy heart for Lawfare but excitement for Wells that I announce that Wells Bennett is moving on in the next few weeks to bigger and better things. Wells has been a big part of Lawfare's gro...
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There is a lot of bad blood between Silicon Valley companies and the intelligence community. It should not be surprising with what the NSA did to understand why Silicon Valley is pushing back so strongl...
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Russia has commenced airstrikes in Syria, the New York Times reports. The strikes have largely targeted the rebel-held Homs and Hama provinces.
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If you own an iPhone and are one of the users of the drone-tracking app “Metadata+," you were greeted on Sunday morning with an alert that Apple had removed your app from its online store.
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A friendly suggestion for your new account: engage with your critics.
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...the Russian legislature, that is.
Alongside the Kremlin's newly-minted air campaign against ISIS in Syria (or against forces other than ISIS, as the case may be) comes news that the Russian parliame...
