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On Thursday, the Obama administration revealed that a January drone strike killed two hostages being held by Al Qaeda, one American and one Italian. Jack noted that this openness by the administration ab...
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The publication of DOD's new cyber strategy is a milestone and a major step forward in the cyber policy debate. In particular, the strategy is notable for its relative openness about the use of offensiv...
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The use of lethal force (whether via armed drone, manned aircraft, cruise missile, helicopter assault, etc.) has been a cornerstone of U.S. counterterrorism policy for many years, both in places where we...
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From my book Data and Goliath:
...when I was working with the Guardian on the Snowden documents, the one top-secret program the NSA desperately did not want us to expose
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Yesterday’s news that a U.S. drone strike inadvertently killed two al Qaeda hostages---one American and one Italian---continues to reverberate throughout the Fourth Estate.
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Yesterday the President acknowledged that the United States inadvertently killed an American citizen and an Italian citizen held hostage by al-Qaida. The killings, he said, took place during “a U.S.
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Yesterday, I published this correspondence from a government lawyer who thought I had been unfair to Harold Koh in describing his role at the State Department as being "obstructionist" with respect to th...
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Today, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter unveiled the Pentagon's new cybersecurity strategy at Stanford University in a speech entitled "Rewiring the Pentagon: Charting a New Path on Innovation and Cybe...
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This morning, the White House announced that a U.S. drone strike targeting al Qaeda militants along the mountainous border of Afghanistan and Pakistan killed two Western hostages in January.
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Everyone should read Bobby's post from last night on the potential approach of an endgame for the 122 detainees still in custody at Guantánamo.
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Breaking news from the New York Times:
The White House acknowledged on Thursday that two hostages held by Al Qaeda were accidentally killed in an American government counterterrorism
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Published by Oxford UP (2015)
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The Washington Post has the latest here. Key points:
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So reports the Guardian:
Japanese authorities have launched an investigation after a small drone reportedly containing traces of radiation was found on the roof of the prime minister’s office, sparking ...
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In a 233-page blockbuster decision, Uri Avnery v. Israeli Knesset, an expanded 9-justice panel of the Israeli Supreme Court issued a split ruling on a controversial 2011 law restricting political boycott...
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Our guest for episode 63 of the Cyberlaw Podcast is Alan Cohn, former Assistant Secretary for Strategy, Planning, Analysis & Risk in the DHS Office of Policy and a recent addition at Steptoe.
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Just hours after Saudi Arabia announced the end of its bombing campaign in Yemen, planes from the Saudi-led coalition carried out a fresh round of airstrikes. Reuters reports that an airstrike hit Taiz s...
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I received the following email from a government lawyer who was involved in the drone strike discussions about my post yesterday about Harold Koh's role in those discussions:
I think your characterizati...
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Last Wednesday, the New York Times brought us the news that a U.S. drone strike had killed Ibrahim al-Rubaysh---allegedly a top ideologue, spokesman, and operational planner for al Qaeda in the Arabian P...
