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Today’s Big News About “Backdoor Searches”
One of the most hotly debated aspects of Section 702 is the practice of querying 702-acquired data using U.S.-person identifiers—in particular, queries conducted by the FBI in non-national-security crimi... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The THAAD missile defense system deployed by the United States to South Korea is now operational, Reuters writes. According to U.S. officials, the system now has initial capabilities but will not be full... -
Director of National Intelligence Releases 2016 Transparency Report
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has released its annual transparency report regarding use of national security authorities for calendar year 2016, available here and below. Lawfare wi... -
Combined Arms Maneuver Operations and LOAC Implementation: A View from the Golan
Last week I was among a group of international law scholars and practitioners invited to Israel by the Israeli Defense Forces Military Advocate General for a three-day conference focused on contemporary ... -
Middle East Ticker: Turkey Cracks Down at Home and Abroad, Iraq Caught in Middle of Syria’s Proxy War, and Saudi Arabia Sends Mixed Messages in Yemen
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Trump and the Next Terrorist Attack
The days after a terrorist attack are trying for any president. Initial reports of responsibility are often wrong, and the public response is a loud mix of fear, demonstrations of support for the victims... -
Reminder, Hoover Book Soiree: Mark Moyar's Oppose Any Foe
This is a reminder to RSVP for the next in our series of book soirees at the Hoover Institution: tomorrow, May 3, Jack will interview Mark Moyar about his new book, Oppose Any Foe: The Rise of America’s ... -
Do We Really Need Another Trump-Russia Timeline?
Today marks the launch of our comprehensive page collecting developments and news stories relating to President Trump and his associates’ alleged ties to Russia. But the internet is teeming with timeline... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
President Donald Trump is open to meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, saying that he would be “honored” to sit down with Kim “under the right circumstances,” Bloomberg reports. -
The Week That Will Be
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Seven Theories of the Case: What Do We Really Know About L’Affaire Russe and What Could it All Mean?
Today, Lawfare is launching a detailed, annotated set of links laying out the known facts about L’Affaire Russe. We will keep this resource page updated as new facts, stories, documents, and statements e... -
The End of “About” Collection under Section 702
As Bobby and others have already noted, the NSA announced Friday that it is ending “about” collection under Section 702’s upstream component.
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