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Two cyber related items today:
The FCC is now in the cybersecurity business. It's $10M fine is the first of its kind to be levied against a telecom that, allegedly, stored personal information with ina...
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That's the headline from Michael Iskikoff at Yahoo! News reporting that the FBI has identified the suspected so-called "second leaker."
The story begins:
The FBI has identified an employee of a federal ...
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While the US midterm elections are still a week away, democratic contests elsewhere in the world are ongoing or have just concluded. In Brazil, the BBC reports that incumbent president Dilma Rousseff nar...
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Michael Hirsh has a piece at Politico on the disorganized, uncoordinated crafting and implementation of the administration’s strategy to defeat the Islamic State. Of particular interest to Lawfare reade...
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In his piece on Nobel Peace Prize Laureates pressuring the President to disclose information about torture, Charlie Savage explains why some officials in the administration oppose the broad extraterritor...
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The other day, I posted this video of the North Korean Ambassador to the United Nations giving a talk at the Council on Foreign Relations:
The question of whether or not a think tank like CFR s...
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The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) last week announced a new project on “Ethical Autonomy.” (This is a topic on which Ken and I have written, most recently in a piece co-authored with Daniel R...
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Marty Lederman and I have been engaged in a debate over the past few weeks, and last Monday he wrote a lengthy and thoughtful “Monday Reflection” over at Just Security concerning some of my arguments her...
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On Monday, November 3, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Zivotofsky v. Kerry, the long-awaited final act in a decade-plus-long saga surrounding the passport of an American boy born in Jerusal...
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Belatedly, I want to join the discussion about the extraterritorial application of the Convention Against Torture (CAT), about which Jack commented on Friday, drawing on an article by Charlie Savage earl...
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Editor’s Note: The savage fighting in Syria and now Iraq seems to grow worse every month. As the U.S. role in the conflict grows, so too does the need to understand the motivations of the fighters, inclu...
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By now you know: Wednesday morning saw oral argument in Al Bahlul v. United States---the first since the D.C. Circuit's en banc decision, and the matter's remand to a three judge panel consisting of Circ...
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Ben outlined all the many, surprising---and mutually contradictory---ways in which President Obama is “right.”
Cody noted that ISIS and al Nusra appear to have obtained drone technology and shared some ...
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A doctor in New York who recently treated Ebola patients in Guinea has contracted the disease, the New York Times reports.
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A week ago Charlie Savage reported that the Obama administration “is considering reaffirming the Bush administration’s position that the [Convention Against Torture(CAT)] imposes no legal obligation on t...
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Since the introduction of drone technology to the battlefield, countless academics, policymakers, and military planners have pondered a disturbing question: what happens when other countries or non-state...
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The Fourth Plenum of the Chinese Communist Party’s 18th National Congress kicked off two days ago in Beijing.
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If you don’t follow the jihadi social media scene, you may not know that the first issue of Al Qaeda’s online English-language magazine, Resurgence, has just hit webstands across the terrorist world. For...
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President Obama is right.
He was right when he said, as a presidential candidate in 2007, that “The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a ...
