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Wells and I and our Brookings colleague John Villasenor have begun a paper series of civilian robotics. Some of it is a little beyond normal Lawfare fare, but some of it will be in the heartland. The fir...
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After 46 people died last Friday in riots across east Ukraine, and pro-Russian demonstrators stormed Odessa police headquarters on Sunday to free 67 people detained after rioting, Ukraine has sent an eli...
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The Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the National Academies is pleased to announce the release of a report entitled At the Nexus of Cybersecurity and Public Policy: Some Basic Conc...
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Stewart Baker began this week's Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast---which always opens with the week's NSA news---by noting that there was virtually no NSA news this week. That which did exist, moreover, was not ...
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Editor’s Note: Sanctions seem to hit the sweet spot for policymakers when considering options for U.S. foreign intervention: unlike military force, sanctions don’t risk American lives and don’t feed the ...
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I was at the U.S. Pacific Command’s 27th annual MILOPS conference much of the week.
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Let's begin with the White House’s recent release of its highly anticipated Big Data report: Ben noted the release of the report, and Paul gave us some of his reactions.
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You've likely heard: Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a Guantanamo detainee facing capital military commission charges, last month mounted a new habeas challenge in the district court for D.C.
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The Administration has released its long-awaited, review of Big Data -- a report from the Executive Office of the President on the phenomenon of large-scale data collection and analysis. The review was ...
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Yesterday, the White House released the highly anticipated report of the Big Data and Privacy Working Group. An overview of the report explains that the report---which, in part, considers how the collect...
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Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2014)
Reviewed by Bruce Riedel
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Ashley beat me to the punch in flagging today’s news about Rep.
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I first met Capt. Patrick McCarthy a number of years back when he was the staff judge advocate down at Guantanamo and I visited the site for a day to see the detention facilities there. Capt. McCarthy is...
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It's out. Haven't read it yet.
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Over at Foreign Policy, Dan Lamothe reports that Rep. Duncan Hunter will introduce legislation on May 7 that would authorize the Executive Branch to target the individuals who attacked the U.S.
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Today, we'll start with developments in Ukraine: As the interim government in Kiev continues to experience setbacks in its operations against pro-Russian militias, Vladimir Putin demanded that Ukrainian ...
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Two opposite mistakes in an after-the-fact review of a terrorist incident are equally damaging. One is to fail to recognize the powerful difference between foresight and hindsight in evaluating how an in...
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According to Secretary of State John Kerry, the United States has proof that the Russian government has sent spies to Ukraine to help incite the separatist movement. Remarks that Kerry made in a closed-d...
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I spent this morning at the MILOPS conference watching a series of presentations on China's maritime disputes with its neighbors in the East and South China Seas. Because of the ground rules of the confe...
