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The State Department has named former National Security Council official Lee Wolosky as the new special envoy for the closure of Guantanamo Bay, reports Carol Rosenberg of the Miami Herald.
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I have now had a little time to digest Shane Harris’s story in the Daily Beast this morning on the intelligence community’s concerns in 2010 about OPM’s data security. The relevant passage from the GAO r...
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This afternoon, Greece requested its third European bailout in five years. According to the Wall Street Journal, the proposal calls for €29.15 billion from the European Stability Mechanism to cover Greek...
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Dustin Volz of the National Journal brings us the news that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has "revived the National Security Agency's bulk collection of Americans' phone records" for an add...
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Last week, I posed the question of whether we should really be blaming OPM—which is not an intelligence, counter-intelligence, or cybersecurity agency—for the theft of government personnel records, presu...
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Our guest for Episode 73 is Rob Knake, currently the Council on Foreign Relations Senior Fellow for Cyber Policy and formerly with DHS, the White House, and the Richard Clarke finishing school for cybers...
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I'm very happy to report that the 3rd annual Transatlantic Workshop on International Law and Armed Conflict will occur at Oxford next week. As I explained last summer, this event is co-sponsored by the ...
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Readers who found engaging my recent paper with Jodie Liu, "The Privacy Paradox: The Privacy Benefits of Privacy Threats," will certainly want to check out a new draft paper by Columbia Law School profes...
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“Grexit” may be on the horizon, as Greece holds a nationwide referendum on whether to accept an extension of the European Union’s promise of continued bailout funds in exchange for harsh austerity measur...
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One of the basic tenets of the law of armed conflict (LOAC) is the equal application of the laws: as Professor Adam Roberts
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
Monday, June 29th at 9 am: The Center for Strategic and International Studies hosts a discussion on Examining the Anti-ISIS Strategy with Stephe...
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Editor’s Note: The U.S. Army and the military as a whole seem to have fallen on hard times: polls, studies, and tragedies like suicides and drug abuse all suggest an institution in crisis. Raphael Cohen ...
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The other day, I gave a talk at the George Mason Law and Economic Center on Jodie Liu and my recent Brookings paper, "The Privacy Paradox: The Privacy Benefits of Privacy Threats." The talk is a light-he...
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What do hotel registries and national security internet surveillance have in common? On their face, not much. The former (as we learn from City of Los Angeles v. Patel) involves a routinized administra...
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I was struck by Charlie Dunlap’s take on the DOD Law of War manual regarding cyber operations, especially on how cyberattacks are carried out.
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Monday saw the release of the U.N. Human Rights Council’s Independent Commission of Inquiry report on last summer’s conflict in Gaza. Ben provided us with links to the report and the accompanying press r...
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The New York Times brought us news this morning about a string of terrorist attacks on three continents, heightening concerns over spreading jihadist influence around the globe. On Tuesday, an ISIS spoke...
