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On this week's episode, Shane abandons Tamara and me and goes on vacation. His empty chair is filled by Dan Byman, who brings a large Yemeni dagger and a National Counterterrorism Center Calendar, which ...
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The Great War of Our Time: The CIA's Fight Against Terrorism--From al Qa'ida to ISIS
By Michael Morell
Twelve/The Hachette Group (2015)
Reviewed by Gabriel Schoenfeld
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Two dozen plaintiffs filed suit yesterday in the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York to enjoin the Obama administration from releasing an estimated $100 billion in frozen Iranian ass...
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With about a week or so to go until the halfway point of the congressional review period, President Obama is intensifying his campaign to rally support for the nuclear deal with Iran. In a speech at Amer...
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Earlier today, a three-judge panel of the Fourth Circuit handed down its quite important decision in United States v. Graham.
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At 11:20 am, President Barack Obama will deliver an address at American University defending the nuclear deal reached with Iran last month.
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Last Friday at the stroke of midnight, India and Bangladesh exchanged 50,000 people and more than 160 pockets of land as part of a major land boundary agreement (LBA) approved by the Indian parliament in...
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The good people at Just Security, a fellow online security blog, recently moved their entire website to "HTTPS". This means you'll always see "https://" in your browser when you visit, with a little lock...
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Suppose you were the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)—a unit of the U.S. Department of Commerce. Suppose further that in March 2014 you had announced your intention to of...
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The recent confirmation of Mullah Omar’s death has led to a great deal of discussion on a variety of regional issues: what does the Taliban’s loss of Omar mean for the future of the organization? For the...
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Yesterday, during a visit to Qatar from U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) leaders formally announced their support for the nuclear accord reached with Iran by the P5+1 gr...
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What follows is a guest post from Nicholas Weaver, a computer security researcher at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley:
Properly configured, an iOS device is perhaps the most sec...
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I just posted a short piece to SSRN entitled, “Checks and Balances from Abroad.” The piece, written for a University of Chicago Law School symposium on national security, technology, and the separation ...
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In this episode Aaron talks to Jacob Zenn about the group commonly referred to as Boko Haram. They covered a variety of topics including:
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New Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour has called for Taliban unity in the wake of Mullah Omar’s death, the BBC reports: “division in our ranks will only please our enemies.” Mullah Mansour also appear...
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Hacking the hackers. Companies are getting more aggressive in responding to attacks, but the law limits how far they can go.
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Vladymyr Khlepitko and his fiancée Yana Marek look like a normal couple sitting outside the Boulangerie Artisan café in downtown Kyiv. Two trendy young Ukrainians sipping lemonades in the hot summer sun,...
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
Monday, August 3rd at 11:30 am: The Hudson Institute will convene a panel on Cyber-Enabled Economic Warfare: An Evolving Challenge. Lunch will b...
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Using counterterrorism as a lens for seeing the Middle East, as the Obama administration so often does, has helped the United States achieve several important successes against the Al Qaeda core and avoi...
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بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيْمِ
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