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Jack Goldsmith’s response to my call for a pardon for Edward Snowden deserves a reply. I also have a few thoughts on what Susan Hennessey and Ben Wittes have now added to the debate.
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Prior to last week, one might have been forgiven for thinking that Edward Snowden had fallen out of the news. Now, however, Oliver Stone’s new film Snowden and the ACLU-Amnesty International campaign to ...
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A suspect has been arrested in connection with the explosion in downtown Manhattan on Saturday night and a bombing elsewhere in New Jersey, the New York Times reports. Ahmed Khan Rahami, a U.S. citizen b...
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Let’s start with an obvious point: As Jack Goldsmith pointed out last week, President Obama is not going to pardon Edward Snowden. It’s just not going to happen. Period. And everyone involved in the camp...
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Police in New Jersey have located and arrested Ahmad Khan Rahami, the prime suspect in the Chelsea and New Jersey bombings. Rahami fired on the officers who found him, striking two of them and then being...
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On September 13, 2016, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a set of proposed cybersecurity regulations for financial services companies that fall under the jurisdiction of the New York State Departm...
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Not all countries that suffer from terrorism are innocent victims doing their best to fight back. Many governments, including several important U.S. allies, simultaneously fight and encourage the terrori...
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A review of Theoretical Boundaries of Armed Conflict and Human Rights, edited by Jens David Ohlin (Cambridge University Press, 2016).
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
Monday, September 19th at 4pm: Arthur T. Downey will lecture on his recent book, The Cold War: Law, Lawyers, Spies and Crises in an event at the...
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Today from 9:15am to 12:30pm, the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute is hosting a panel event on How Should We Govern Government Hacking? A livestream of the event is below.
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Editor's Note: It's hard to know what aspect of the Islamic State is most disturbing, but high on the list is the use of children as suicide bombers and executioners. Jacob Olidort of the Washington Inst...
