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Cybercrime Roundup: Photobucket, Sextortion, and Bitcoin
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Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast: The Autonomous Weapon Who Went to the Beach
Episode 140 features long-time New York Times reporter, John Markoff, on the past and future of artificial intelligence and its ideological converse—the effort to make machines that augment rather than ... -
Scalia and Foreign Law
On November 18th, at the Federalist Society’s National Lawyers Convention, I joined a trio of eminent national-security-law experts—Texas’s Steve Vladeck, the Brennan Center’s Liza Goitein, and GW’s Brad... -
Annals of the Trump Administration #9 -- Immigration and Border Security Policy
As a national security blog, Lawfare, has more or less ignored issues relating to immigration. To be sure, the issue of immigration intersects with the question of border control (that, after all, is wh... -
Middle East Ticker: Thousands Flee Assad Regime Advance in Aleppo, Turkey Defiant as Purge Continues, and the Red Sea-Dead Sea Canal Comes Closer to Reality
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Annals of the Trump Administration #8:Turning Off the Presidential Policy Guidance Limits for Libya
In a post earlier today, I highlighted a variety of recent developments in which the Obama administration has adjusted constraints on using force under color of the AUMF, based in part on the report in t... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
In a series of bizarre tweets yesterday, the President-elect cast doubt on the authenticity of an election that he himself won, falsely claiming that “millions of people … voted illegally” for Hillary Cl... -
Trump Adds to His National Security Team
President-Elect Trump kept busy over the Thanksgiving holiday with the announcement of more high-level national security appointments: Governor Nikki Haley as Ambassador to the United Nations, Donald McG... -
We Need to #AudittheVote—and It has Nothing to Do with Who Becomes President
The internet has been buzzing with news and speculation regarding state election recounts and a movement to audit voting results. Last week, accounts emerged that well-respected researchers had found ind... -
Annals of the Trump Administration #7 (Prequel Edition): Shaping the War Obama Will Leave to Trump
With less than two months to go before it hands over power to the Trump administration, the Obama administration is continuing to fine-tune the legal, policy, and institutional architectures that guide i... -
International Terrorism Prosecutions: Brooklyn Arrest
This week, federal district courts in Ohio and Illinois sentenced two men on material support charges. Meanwhile, another FBI counterterrorism suspect was arrested in Brooklyn, New York, and Dylann Roof,... -
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