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DOJ Cross-Border Legislation: Meeting Human Rights Requirements from Both Sides of the Pond
This post is part of a series written by participants of a conference at Georgia Tech in Surveillance, Privacy, and Data Across Borders: Trans-Atlantic Perspectives. -
The Week That Will Be
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Former FBI Director James Comey has agreed to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee, the Times reported over the weekend. His testimony, before an open hearing of the committee, will be schedu... -
China’s Employment of Unmanned Systems: Across the Spectrum from Peacetime to Wartime
While China has become a driving force for the proliferation of UAVs worldwide through its extensive and increasing exports, China’s own use of these systems could also influence global norms regarding t... -
Lessons from the Mutual Legal Assistance Reform Effort
This post is part of a series written by participants of a conference at Georgia Tech in Surveillance, Privacy, and Data Across Borders: Trans-Atlantic Perspectives. -
Your City or Your Soul: On Moral Compromise and Government Service
In the weeks and months after the presidential election—and even before it—an unusual debate took shape on the pages of Lawfare and elsewhere: Would it be possible to serve ethically in a Trump administr... -
Navigating Misaligned Law Enforcement and Company Interests in Data Breach Investigations
This post is part of a series written by participants of a conference at Georgia Tech in Surveillance, Privacy, and Data Across Borders: Trans-Atlantic Perspectives. -
On the Importance of Limiting White House-DOJ Contacts: It’s Not Just About Obstruction
Last week’s New York Times story detailing Benjamin Wittes’s conversations with then-FBI Director James Comey and Wittes’s own Lawfare post describe in some detail Director Comey’s concerns about inappro... -
Where Is Your Data, Really?: The Technical Case Against Data Localization
This post is part of a series written by participants of a conference at Georgia Tech in Surveillance, Privacy, and Data Across Borders: Trans-Atlantic Perspectives. -
Dealing with Trump: How Canada Has Been Successful (So Far)
Editor’s Note: Perhaps no country is closer to the United States—geographically and culturally—than Canada. Aside from a few unpleasant moments at the birth of the American republic, relations have been ... -
The Lawfare Podcast: Mira Rapp-Hooper on the Slow-Motion Crisis in North Korea
It's been a long and stressful week on the domestic front, so we at the Lawfare Podcast are bringing you a podcast on a cheerier subject: the looming crisis on the Korean Peninsula. Benjamin Wittes sat d... -
Did Comey “Grandstand” or "Politicize" the Russia Investigation?
As is well known, President Trump told his Russian friends in the Oval Office: “I just fired the head of the F.B.I. He was crazy, a real nut job. I faced great pressure because of Russia.
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