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Today's Headlines and Commentary
Syrian rebel and jihadist forces have captured a major town along the main highway connecting Aleppo and Hama. Since Moscow’s intervention in Syria, Syrian government forces have faced increasing resista... -
Government Bid to Shut Down Challenge To No Fly List Grounded
As memories of 9/11 continue to fade, courts are increasingly becoming bolder and more confident in asserting their oversight role over national security matters. Last week’s Sixth Circuit ruling in Mokd... -
The Triumph of the UK Surveillance State
The United Kingdom is a surveillance state, one far beyond the world envisioned by George Orwell. Between the GCHQ's efforts to bulk-record Internet traffic at the UK's borders, the modern data collected... -
Rational Security: The "Did You Miss Us?" Edition
We missed a week on Rational Security because Shane, Tamara, and I were all out of town last week. Did you miss us? This week, we talk about President Obama's decision to send 50 Special Forces members i... -
Hot Commodities: When the Lights Go Out in the City
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Today's Headlines and Commentary
A joint U.S.-Russia military exercise over Syria? Certainly not, says the Pentagon, disputing Russian claims that the two nations conducted just such an exercise. -
Is Digital Injury “Real” Injury? Thoughts on Spokeo v. Robins
Last week, Ingrid Wuerth flagged Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins for Lawfare readers as one of the key national security law cases of the Supreme Court’s October 2015 Term. The Court held argument in Spokeo on Mo... -
What Did The Navy Do In the South China Sea?
After the U.S.S. Lassen’s freedom of navigation operation (FONOP) in the Spratly Islands last week, we wrote that the Lassen and the accompanying P-8 Poseidon aircraft appeared to have conducted normal m... -
The US Navy’s “Innocent Passage” In the South China Sea May Have Actually Strengthened China’s Sketchy Territorial Claims
As David Bosco hinted in his insightful Lawfare post from yesterday on the US-China showdown in the South China Sea, it turns out that the much-heralded U.S. “freedom of navigation operation” (FONOP) las... -
Chief Prosecutor's Statement from Close of 9/11 Pre-Trial Hearings
Here is the statement from Chief Prosecutor Brig. Gen. Mark Martins at the close of a two-week series of pre-trial sessions in the military commissions case against five alledged 9/11 conspirators, Unite... -
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Episode #87: An Interview with Ari Schwartz
What good is CISA, anyway? Now that both the House and Senate have passed information sharing bills that are strikingly similar but not identical, the prospects for a change in the law are good. But wha... -
What Effect Could Chinese Military Reorganization have on the Recent US-China Cyber Agreement?
At the end of September, the United States and China reached an agreement that promising they would not engage in or support cyber espionage activity aimed at providing competitive advantage to commercia...
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