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Charlie Savage reports:
The Obama administration is clamping down on a technique that government officials have long used to join in public discussions of well-known but technically still-secret informat...
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The New York Times reports that France has drafted a U.N. Security Council resolution referring the “situation” in Syria to the International Criminal Court that has been tailored “specifically to addres...
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Let’s begin with Pakistan today. The New York Times takes a closer look at Islamabad’s Red Mosque, where soldiers and Islamist students fought a pitched battle in 2007 and where a new library named for O...
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The courtroom was nearly full Monday for the DC Circuit Court of Appeals oral arguments in Ralls Corporation vs Committee on Foreign Investments.
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IC on the Record released this important announcement and new trove of declassified documents:
DNI Announces the Release of Additional Documents Related to Collection Activities Authorized by President G...
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An interesting tidbit today regarding US involvement in Yemen, from Politico's first-rate briefer Morning Defense:
MORE MILITARY SUPPORT COULD BE COMING: Shy of putting boots on the ground, the U.S. gove...
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This was bound to happen eventually, I suppose: the New York Times editorial page has gotten behind the effort to hold up David Barron's judicial nomination. Sort of. Calling Barron, whom Obama has nomin...
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Those who have been following the debate know that the FTC recently won a pretty significant victory in its effort to enforce cybersecurity standards for organizations that hold consumer data. A distric...
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I woke up this morning to text messages and Facebook posts about the Thai Constitutional Court’s verdict ousting Thailand's Prime Minister, Yingluck Shinawatra. The messages ranged from the exuberant “Ye...
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The United States will help to recover over 200 female schoolchildren abducted by Boko Haram in Nigeria. The Washington Post reports that the White House will be sending “specialists” to Nigeria to help ...
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The resolution at this Munk Debate in Toronto is "Be it resolved state surveillance is a legitimate defense of our freedoms." Supporting the motion are former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden and Harv...
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There’s much common ground evident in Steve’s reply to my earlier post on the effort of Abd Al-Nashiri, the accused mastermind of the USS Cole bombing, to enjoin his military commission trial. Steve and...
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After almost three years at Brookings, a large portion of which I have spent working on Lawfare, I'm going off to Georgetown's School of Foreign Service to work on politics and security issues in South A...
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It’s clear from his post this morning that my friend Peter Margulies believes that Al-Nashiri’s new habeas challenge to his trial by military commission, which rests on the claim that the United States w...
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Has DOD failed to comply with its statutory obligation to explain to Congress how the executive branch decides which groups and persons are within the scope of the AUMF?
HASC Chairman McKeon has release...
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Terror continues in Nigeria. After the leader of Boko Haram released a video saying over 200 schoolgirls are being held hostage, three gunmen opened fire at another school---but thankfully, no one was in...
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The habeas challenge to military commissions recently filed by Abd Al Rahim Al-Nashiri is a loser on both procedure and substance. Al-Nashiri, the alleged mastermind of the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole,...
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A very interesting article in Der Spiegel about U.S.-German relations, the NSA investigation, and Ukraine in light of Angela Merkel's recent trip to Washington. The bottom line is that the Ukraine crisis...
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As has been reported widely, the White House Big Data review was released last week. Paul provided initial analysis. While the report does not seem to counsel dramatic action, several of the recommendati...
