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This week’s cyberlaw podcast begins as always with the week in NSA. We suspect that a second tech exec meeting with the President (for two hours!) bodes ill for the intelligence community, or at least th...
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Over at Just Security, the estimable Ryan Goodman of NYU Law School has responded to my post of Saturday taking on Glenn Greenwald over press eagerness to blow lawful classified programs.
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That's the gist of this quite important story, from Charlie Savage at the New York Times:
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is preparing to unveil a legislative proposal to drastically overhaul the...
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Should the War Powers Resolution "clock" be running in Uganda?
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Winston Churchill famously declared, "I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." Almost 80 years later, that's President Putin in a nutshell: th...
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Last week, the Administration announced its plan to devolve governance of the Internet’s naming function (which goes by the acronym IANA) to a non-profit organization, the Internet Corporation for Assign...
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Published by PublicAffairs (2013)
Reviewed by Alan Rozenshtein
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Editor’s Note: The United States has long favored a robust international order—but defining the salient characteristics of the international order and evaluating its structure and stability can be diffic...
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Over at his new publication, The Intercept, Glenn Greenwald has a piece taking to task those criticizing Edward Snowden for news stories that, in fact, reflect the editorial judgments of the newspapers t...
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David Sanger and Nicole Perlroth report about how the NSA has successfully placed backdoors into the networks of the Chinese Telecommunications giant Huawei for purposes of (a) discerning Huawei's links ...
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This week, my Brookings colleagues in our Foreign Policy Program hosted an address by NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen for a speech and audience Q&A on Russia, Ukraine and Crimea and, more ge...
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Let's start with NSA news. This week, attention shifted slightly from from NSA’s domestic 215 program to its foreign collection activities.
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This just in from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court---in the person of its Presiding Judge, Reggie Walton, and regarding data retention issues. These have arisen, of course, in light of the FIS...
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Last week I noted an interesting exchange on AUMF renewal (and life in a post-AUMF world) during Michael Lumpkin's March 11 testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee. When Lumpkin appeared be...
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President Obama has expanded sanctions on Russia just as President Putin formally completed Russia's annexation of Crimea.
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I’ve already written at some length about the D.C. Circuit’s decision last month in Aamer v.
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Edward Snowden gave a TED talk at TED2014:
After it, TED folks offered NSA a chance to respond---and Rick Ledgett, deputy director of the agency, showed up by video conference to answer quest...
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Criticizing the US stance on human rights treaties is practically an international sport, as evidenced by the bruising reception the UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) gave to a US delegation last week. As...
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I'm sorry to report that Ambassador Bob Strauss has passed. He lived an extraordinary life, punctuated by an astonishing array of accomplishments and contributions to the greater good. I'm deeply proud...
