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This week, Lawfare instituted the very first edition of the #BrookingsFightClub. You can check out here the first titanic struggle of the series between Editor and Chief Benjamin Wittes and me, the lowly...
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The D.C. Circuit has just issued a per curiam order denying the detainees' petition for an en banc rehearing in Hatim v. Obama.
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In a fast-moving situation, Burkina Faso’s President Blaise Compaore has announced that he will resign and the military has seized power following violent protests in which demonstrators set fire to parl...
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The first rule of Brookings Fight Club is: Ask a guy in a bunny suit to serve as your referee.
Ever wanted to kick your boss's ass? Ever been so frustrated with an intern you just wanted to clock him? I...
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House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon (R-CA) today sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, calling for the immediate suspension of all transfers of detainees from Guantanamo.
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Stumbling around the internet last night, I found this gem: Dronestagram.
It's exactly what you would think; a free, user-built collection of videos and pictures shot by drones from all around the world.
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As Israeli paper Yediot Achronot noted in a headline yesterday, “Jerusalem continues to burn.” The instability wracking the disputed, holy city reached new heights yesterday with the attempted assassinat...
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Zivotofsky is an important case because it appears to require the Supreme Court to address the scope of the President’s exclusive foreign relations power vis a vis Congress.
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Our guest this week is Bob Litt, the General Counsel of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Bob has had a distinguished career in government, from his clerkship with Justice Stewart, hi...
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Over the last year and a half, the intelligence community has released a significant amount of previously classified material in an effort to be more transparent regarding matters pertaining to foreign i...
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Yesterday, the Department of Defense announced the first death associated with current U.S. operations in Iraq and Syria. According to Air Force Times, Cpl. Jordan L. “Spears [died]... in the Persian Gul...
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The strange little case of Zivotofsky v. Kerry casts power politics as petty paperwork. But it might be one of the most significant non-terrorism foreign affairs cases in a generation. In the broadest se...
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Naz Modirzadeh’s fascinating series of Lawfare posts (here, here, and here) discussing her article, Folk International Law, provides an excellent primer on the potential consequences and confusion that r...
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Some time back, Ben noted two stern critiques of Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald---one by Sean Wilentz and another by George Packer. The latter reviewed Greenwald's book, No Place to Hide; ditto Micha...
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And just to prove that we are equal-opportunity victims, I also saw, today, this report from Novetta on "Operation SMN" -- a report on a Chinese APT dubbed Axiom. Here's a bit of the Executive Summary:
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We tend to focus our attention on Chinese APT cyber threats for good reason -- they tend to be more overt and focus on American business interests. But we should not lose sight of the fact that Russian ...
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A new set of monitoring guidelines for people arriving to the United States from West Africa has been put in place by the federal government. The New York Times reports on new measures that are supposed ...
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This morning, I posted some thoughts on a story in the New York Times about so-called "mail covers" by the Postal Service and their relationship
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I'm very interested to watch how the political system responds to this New York Times story about the U.S. Postal's Service very old, sort-of-bulk metadata program. The Times reports:
In a rare public ac...
