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I was just about to post on this presser, where State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki refused to answer whether the United States would bless any nonbinding agreement with Iran in a UN Security Council...
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Last week, before a largely adoring crowd at a joint session of Congress, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unleased a fusillade against the administration’s potential Iran deal.
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Iraqi forces and pro-government militias have begun securing their hold on Tikrit, the Iraqi city that ISIS has held since last June. The Washington Post reports that the assault on the city, which began...
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In the trial of Abid Naseer, the U.S. Department of Justice released a trove of new files recovered from Osama bin Laden's compound during the May 2011 raid by U.S. Navy Seals that ended in his death. Se...
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It is now clear that any deal with Iran will by its terms be a non-binding agreement. That means the United States will have no international law obligation to comply with the agreement.
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We talk about the David Petraeus plea, ISIS propaganda, and John Brennan's plans to reorganize the CIA. If you haven't yet checked out Rational Security, please do.
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This episode of the podcast features Rep.
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Earlier this morning, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee heard testimony from Secretary of State John Kerry, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mart...
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ISIS has released a video appearing to show the execution of an Israeli Arab by a child soldier. The Wall Street Journal reports that, if confirmed, the execution of Mohammed Said Ismail Musallam would m...
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C-SPAN's Washington Journal had two lengthy segments on the AUMF controversy this morning.
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Editor's note: The following is adapted from a post on Markaz, the blog of the Brookings Center for Middle East Policy.
Lawfare has already seen a lot of coverage about the letter 47 Republican senators...
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This is an excellent bit of radio about one of the weirder forms of attack during World War II---the only one I know of that produced casualties in the continental United States: balloon bombing.
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If, as Marty and I just argued, the deal with Iran is a non-binding agreement under international law, then, as we stated, “there is little doubt about the President’s constitutional authority to make th...
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[Cross-posted at Just Security.]
In Marty’s post yesterday about the letter that 47 Senators sent to “the Leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” he briefly addressed the quest
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The New York Times today has an op-ed by the founder of Wikipedia called Stop Spying on Wikipedia Users.
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Yesterday, in what many have termed an unprecedented move, 47 Republican senators released an open letter to the “leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” making note that any deal without the expressed...
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Despite a vote to end security cooperation with Israel, PA crackdown on Hamas continues: Last week, the Central Committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization voted to end security cooperation with...
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Last week Amy Zegart noted the rapid rise of cyber in the DNI Annual Threat Assessment. As she observed,
Cyber is listed as threat number 1 but it's only been number 1 since 2012, suggesting just how fas...
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We're thrilled to announce the publication today of our new book, The Future of Violence: Robots and Germs, Hackers and Drones---Confronting A New Age of Threat.
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