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Rational Security: The "Gobble, Gobble, Toil and Trouble" Edition
Our guest this week is Lawfare's new managing editor, Susan Hennessey, in her first podcast appearance after leaving a spooky federal agency. We discuss Turkey's shoot-down of a Russian jet that allegedl... -
Privacy Conference Cancelled
Irony alert. The annual conference on European Data Protection, sponsored by the International Association of Privacy Professionals, and scheduled for Brussels next week, has been cancelled due to secur... -
Russian Pilots Shot While Descending By Parachute?
Reuters reports Turkmen forces in Syria shot dead the two pilots of a Russian jet downed by Turkish warplanes near the border with Turkey on Tuesday as they descended with parachutes, a deputy commande... -
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Episode #90: An Interview with Charlie Savage
Our guest for episode 90 is Charlie Savage, New York Times reporter, talking about Power Wars, his monumental new book on the law and politics of terrorism in the Obama (and Bush) administrations. -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Editor’s Note: Today’s Headlines and Commentary will be in a turkey coma for the remainder of the week. We’ll see you back here on Monday, November 30th. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours! -
Visa Waivers and Immigration Fraud in Terrorism Prosecutions
Gubernatorial and presidential candidate fretting about refugees, and House passage last week of a bill aimed at effectively halting resettlement of Syrian refugees in the United States, has the country ... -
Drone Registration, Part III
The Unmanned Aircraft Systems Registration Task Force Aviation Rulemaking Committee has issued its final report dated November 21, 2015. -
NYT v. DOJ, Part 2: Second Circuit Narrows Circumstances in Which Official Statements Waive FOIA Exemption 5 Protection
The five-year targeted killing FOIA litigation by the ACLU and New York Times suffered a setback yesterday when the Second Circuit unsealed an opinion affirming an SDNY ruling from October 2014 allowing ... -
Who Are those Syrian Refugees Really?
By land, by sea and, occasionally, by air, they come carrying with them all what they have left in this bedlam world, which is often nothing more than the clothes on their back. They come seeking shelter... -
Cross-Border Data Requests: A Proposed Framework
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Why the Prohibition on Permanently Blinding Lasers is Poor Precedent for a Ban on Autonomous Weapon Systems
Human Rights Watch and the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School have released their latest report regarding autonomous weapon systems: Precedent for Preemption: The Ban on Blinding Las... -
The Trump-Carson Blood Libel
Donald Trump and Ben Carson are playing a particularly nasty game in accusing Arab Americans of having celebrated the fall of the World Trade Center. They are fabulists in the malicious denigration of ot...
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