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The president gave a clear and thoughtful interview on the encryption debates Friday, and he nailed the issue.
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The New York Times thinks President Obama's draft AUMF is dangerously broad:
The parameters of a proposed war authorization the White House sent to
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After the ups and downs of this week's hearings in the military commissions case of United States v. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed et al., Thursday provided a much more straightforward series of motions brought...
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Editor’s Note: Fears about nuclear weapons and concerns about East Asia typically reside in separate worlds. But one risk of a rising China that is usually ignored is how it affects the risk of nuclear w...
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A few weeks ago, Shane Harris and Benjamin Wittes spoke at Washington and Lee School of Law’s symposium on Cyber-surveillance in the Post-Snowden Age. Shane and Ben are familiar names to frequent Lawfare...
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After months of dithering, President Barack Obama sent a draft Authorization for Use of Military Force for ISIS to Congress on Wednesday. As it became clearer that the administration would formally reque...
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As many know, the White House held a summit on cybersecurity and consumer protection at Stanford University today. In addition to President Obama, a number of CEOs also spoke on privacy and security iss...
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The latest episode of Rational Security is now out. Enjoy!
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In this week’s episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast, I take our new mobile recording equipment to Paris to talk about Europe’s cybersecurity directive with Alex Klimburg, of the Hague Institute for Strategic ...
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Below you will find a compilation of public statements and reactions to President Obama’s draft ISIL-specific AUMF. In short: Democrats are concerned there aren't enough limits, and Republicans can’t un...
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ISIS militants have seized Al-Baghdadi, a town in western Iraq, and have begun advancing toward nearby Ayn Al-Assad Air Base, which houses U.S. military personnel, CNN reports.
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Have you been pondering the meaning of the ban on "enduring offensive" ground combat operations included in the administration's draft ISIS AUMF? Wondering what it means in practice for the US military t...
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Yesterday, the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations received an "Update on Detainee Transfers from GTMO."
You can read the testimony of the Department of De...
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Susan Landau has published a thought-provoking critique on Lawfare of the UK Prime Minister’s recent remarks covering the powers he believes the State should be afforded to access the electronic communic...
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One year ago, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) reviewed the National Security Agency’s bulk telephony metadata program and concluded the program was both illegal and imprudent as a...
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As readers likely know, earlier this week, pre-trial motions in Khalid Sheikh Mohammed et al. hit an unanticipated obstacle when one accused, Ramzi Binalshibh, indicated that he recognized one of his tra...
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Some follow-ups to my earlier post on the administration’s ISIL-specific AUMF:
Marty Lederman has a good analysis of the substance of the draft AUMF that is consonant with my analysis. Marty charitably...
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Yesterday, President Barack Obama sent a draft Authorization for the Use of Military Force for ISIS to Congress. The New York Times describes the proposal as an attempt to let Congress limit the activiti...
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Jack ends his excellent and comprehensive post this morning, a post which I will not try to summarize, with the following statement:
I just don’t get the calculation. It seems that the President could h...
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