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French police have converged on a small town to the northeast of Paris in recent hours as part of the ongoing manhunt in search of two brothers, Cherif and Said Kouachi, suspected of being the gunmen who...
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Last week, Admiral (Ret.) James Stavridis, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander and presently Dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, correctly expressed concern that “unlik...
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Reuters reports:
FBI Director James Comey on Wednesday said the U.S.
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Our guest for the first podcast of 2015 is Jim Lewis, a senior fellow and director of the Strategic Technologies Program at CSIS, where he writes on technology, security, and the international economy.
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"I would rather die standing up than live on my knees," so presciently declared Stéphane Charbonnier in response to "friendly" suggestions that he tone down his provocative commentary satirizing religiou...
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I have been unable to find video or audio of FBI Director James Comey's remarks today adding to his prior attribution of the Sony hack to North Korea. Nor has the FBI itself released the text. That said,...
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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...
