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Editor’s Note: The recent events in Ukraine have dredged up memories of an era of great-power competition and territorial conquest driven by imperialistic ambitions that many observers believed had been ...
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Below is the text of a Report/public comment on the 702 program submitted by the NSA Civil Liberties and Privacy Office to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), dated April 16, 2014. I...
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This is a very impressive hour of radio based on this excellent story by Gregory Johnsen. John Bellinger and I both show up at various points in the discussion. It's neat what you can do on national secu...
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James Lewis of CSIS has an excellent post on the reality of the Russian surveillance system, a reality that is quite different from the impression created by Vladimir Putin during his recent televised ex...
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In a surprising decision issued on the first anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Kiobel, Judge Scheindlin held, in the long-running Apartheid litigation, that corporations may be sued under th...
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I had meant to have a book review of former CIA lawyer John Rizzo's new book, Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA, ready to run along with this episode of the podcast.
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India suggests renaming the Internet. Not, apparently, a joke: "In a major diplomatic initiative, India is all set to challenge the U.S.’ hegemony of the World Wide Web at a global meet on Internet gove...
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Coming off of the heartbleed scare, attention this week still focused on internet vulnerabilities.
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Richard Clarke and Peter Swire, two of the five members of the President’s Intelligence Review Group, argue at The Daily Beast that the NSA should rarely keep (as opposed to disclose, and allow patching ...
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A surprise international agreement backed by the U.S., Russia, the EU and Ukraine is calling on pro-Russian separatists who have seized government buildings in eastern Ukraine to vacate and lay down thei...
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I have maintained a certain agnosticism about Edward Snowden's relationship with the Russian intelligence services up until now. I noted with interest, but unconvinced, statements by congressional intell...
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Steve Bellovin, Matt Blaze, Sandy Clark, Susan Landau have two papers relevant to our recent discussion (here, here, and here) about the proper use of vulnerabilities in national security and law enforce...
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The Ukrainian military pressed on with operations in Eastern Ukraine after yesterday’s surrender of weapons and vehicles to pro-Russian militias, killing three and wounding and capturing dozens more in t...
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The Chief Prosecutor issued this earlier this morning.
Hello to all of you. Due to the Judge’s decision to take up the joint defense motion requesting he inquire into possible defense conflicts of inter...
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We’re back in session. The military judge, Army Col. James L. Pohl, calls proceedings to order. Of the five 9/11 accused, there are two absentees: Walid Bin Attash and Mustafa Al-Hawsawi. That prompts...
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There's a small band of us here at Fort Meade's Smallwood Hall---the venue where we'll take in, via slightly-delayed, Closed Circuit Television, more of a pre-trial motions session in the 9/11 military c...
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I learned a lot about Lawfare---and about myself---yesterday from Conor Friedersdorf's rather bitter critique of my post on the decision to award the Pulitzer public service award to the Guardian and the...
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Readers will recall the Lavabit case in the Fourth Circuit, which I earlier described here, and here.
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Yesterday evening, the NYPD announced that it would shutter the Demographics Unit, the controversial program that sent plainclothes detectives to collect information about Muslim communities in the New Y...
