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A Lawfare Welcome: Susan Hennessey
It is a great pleasure to announce Lawfare's new managing editor: Susan Hennessey. If the name rings a bell and you're not either a spy or a former law school classmate, that's probably because Susan ac... -
Saturday's Democratic Primary Debate and National Security
On Saturday night, CBS hosted the second Democratic primary debate of the 2016 campaign. The debate featured Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Martin O'Malley and was moderated by John Dickerson, Nancy... -
What Role Did Encryption Play in Paris?
Glenn Greenwald has seen the big picture in Paris. With 129 people dead, terrorists still at large, and ISIS crowing over the carnage, Greenwald has jumped on the real problem: Someone, somewhere might t... -
Five More Transfers from Guantanamo
Here's the Pentagon's accouncement: The Department of Defense announced today the transfer of Ali Ahmad Muhammad al-Razihi, Khalid Abd-al-Jabbar Muhammad Uthman al-Qadasi, Adil Said al-Hajj Ubayd al-Bu... -
The Week That Will Be
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France Needs a 9/11 Commission-Style Investigation
We do not know yet why three coordinated teams of terrorists were able to plan and execute the worst act of political violence on French soil since World War II. There are serious questions that need to ... -
Norms of Cyber War in Peacetime
Editor’s Note: Cyber attacks and the appropriate response are new territories in national security. On the one hand, most attacks do little damage, and their perpetrators are often unclear. On the other ... -
State of Emergency: How the Paris Attacks Expanded France’s Police Powers
On Friday night, as attacks now attributed to ISIS unfolded across Paris, French President François Hollande declared a nationwide state of emergency. This marks the first time since the Algerian war of ... -
Will France Turn to International Institutions in Response to the Attacks?
In the wake of yesterday’s terrible Paris attacks, will France turn to NATO or the UN Security Council for support? In the immediate aftermath of the September 11 attacks, those were the two most signifi... -
La France-des-Cavernes
The only photograph that hangs in my attic office is that of René Char, the poet and World War II Resistance fighter. Trying to find an appropriate expression of solidarity with the French people in the ... -
The Global War on ISIL and Its Associated Forces
For more than a decade we have had controversy and debate with respect to whether there is indeed an armed conflict between the United States and al Qaeda, whether any such conflict applies without geogr... -
The Lawfare Podcast: John Carlin on National Security and the Cyber Threat Landscape
Earlier this week, Lawfare’s Benjamin Wittes interviewed John Carlin at the Atlantic Council on National Security and the Cyber Threat Landscape. Carlin, the Assistant Attorney General for National Secur...
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