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For the last few months, I've been plotting with some friends to start an experimental podcast company.
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Daybreak greeted us with heartbreaking news of a devastating terrorist attack at the Paris office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Gunmen killed 12 people, including four of the magazine’s wel...
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It seems Chesterbrook Elementary, of Fairfax County, Virginia, has lost its drone---and now wishes to enlist the help of the community in locating it.
Such is the gist of the below email, sent by a scho...
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Early last month, the U.S. State Department released the latest in its Limits in the Seas series. These surveys examine the maritime claims of nations around the world and analyze whether they are consis...
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So . . . you can’t explore bitcoins unless you actually have one in hand. If you don’t then, well, it’s really all pretty theoretical. We wanted to have some skin in the game, so to speak, so we decided...
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Legislators in several states have proposed bills over the past year intended to hamper the NSA’s efforts to collect signals intelligence. In Utah, the site of a large NSA data center, a proposed bill w...
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I'm very excited to add three new additions to Lawfare's crew of contributors:
David Kris requires no introduction to this audience. He served as assistant attorney general for national security earlier...
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That's the idea behind this article in Salon. A different kind of lawfare, I guess. Here's the opening:
Many pundits have suggested that the Republicans’ midterm gains were fueled by discontent not mer...
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I didn't get a chance to post this over the weekend, but for those who are following the discussion over whether and how to transition control over the internet naming function to the international commu...
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Last week, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), the outgoing chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), sent a letter to the White House outlining reforms she plans to initiate to “make ...
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Worth flagging: yesterday's New York Times opinion piece, which was published in the wake of Sloan's departure from the State Department last month.
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Some time back, I promised that if you donated to Lawfare before year's end, each dollar of contribution would constitute a separate chance to win neato Lawfare prizes. The year having ended, Cody, Wells...
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On December 30, the outgoing Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Senator Dianne Feinstein, sent a letter to the White House.
The document---which was released earlier today---overvi...
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Bruce Schneier has two typically fine new essays on the Sony hack. The first (at the Atlantic.com) argues that “we still don’t know who’s behind” the Sony hack, and the second (at Time.com) explains why...
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A U.S. drone strike killed between six and nine suspected militants in northwest Pakistan yesterday. Reuters has the story.
The Daily Beast reveals, after obtaining an internal U.S. Air Force service me...
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There has been considerable speculation about how the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) at the International Criminal Court (ICC) might react to the State of Palestine’s move to join the ICC. Some have sugg...
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Just before the end of the year, the Palestinian Authority took steps to become party to the Rome Statute and thereby join the International Criminal Court (ICC). This is a lose-lose-lose move: it is bad...
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Welcome to the first full week of 2015!
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Editor’s Note: China’s huge population and spectacular economic growth since the 1980s at first gave rise to fears, and now a sense of inevitability, that China will surpass the United States in the 21st...
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As news broke of the cyberattack on Sony, Jack wrote of just how befuddled the US government seemed to be about how to respond. After years of thinking on cyberwar and perhaps thousands of roundtables, t...
