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The Lorax of the Rules Enabling Act: How Not to Stop Mass Hacking
Senator Ron Wyden published an article in Wired this week, co-authored by Matt Blaze and Lawfare’s own Susan Landau, alarmingly entitled, ”The Feds Will Soon Be Able to Legally Hack Almost Anything.” The... -
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast: An Interview with Ciaran Martin
This week’s podcast interview is with Ciaran Martin, the chief executive of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre. -
On National Security Law Scholarship: A Reply to Huq's Critique
On Tuesday, our friend and colleague Aziz Huq posted to ACSblog a fairly critical assessment of national security law scholarship—and, indeed, national security law as an academic discipline, writ large. -
Hot Commodities: Oil Takes Center Stage
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Water Wars: Shifting Strategies in the South China Sea
How do you manage a partner like Duterte? President Duterte showing photos of the Bud Dajo Massacre (Photo: PPD/Rey Baniquet) -
Why President Obama Won't, and Shouldn't, Pardon Snowden
A “pardon Snowden” campaign was launched Wednesday, in conjunction with the Snowden film. Snowden himself made the “moral case” case for why he should be pardoned, and Tim Edgar made a much more powerfu... -
House Intelligence Committee Releases Snowden Report Summary
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence voted unanimously on Thursday afternoon to approve a report on Edward Snowden finding that he "did tremendous damage" to U.S. national security. The e... -
This Week at the Military Commissions, Special Majid Khan Edition: “The Whole Enhanced Interrogation Thing”
Yes, we’re back at the military commission, but no, there’s no Abd Al-Rahim Al-Nashiri. There’s no KSM or Ramzi Binalshibh either. -
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Five years of failed efforts to end the fighting in Syria have persuaded many observers that the war may not be resolvable any time soon. But the Associated Press reports that this week’s ceasefire has o... -
Remarks by Brigadier General Baker on Military Commissions
Brigadier General John C. Baker, Chief Defense Counsel of the Military Commissions Defense Organization, gave the following remarks yesterday at Georgetown University's NATSECDEF conference. Keynote S... -
International Terrorism Prosecutions: Tying up Loose Conspiracies
Over the past few weeks, the Justice Department has continued to tie up loose ends in the realm of criminal terrorism prosecutions.
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