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The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Federal Employees Please Take Note: You can now support Lawfare through the Combined Federal Campaign! Wells announced this week that federal employees can help grow Lawfare through the ongoing CFC. Plea... -
Water Wars: What the TPP Means for the PRC
USTR Michael Froman with TPP-partner trade ministers (Photo: Erik S. Lesser/European Pressphoto Agency) -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The White House is shutting down the Pentagon’s ill-fated train-and-equip program for Syrian rebels, at least in its current form. So says the New York Times, which reports that Secretary of Defense Ash ... -
USG Folks: Support Lawfare Through the 2015 Combined Federal Campaign!
A little announcement from HQ, for interested readers inside the federal government: You can now support Lawfare, by means of the 2015 Combined Federal Campaign. The CFC is, in short, the United States' ... -
Forget the Great Game: Let's Protect Civilians in Syria
The other day, a young man named Mouhanad Abdulhamid Al Rifay took the oath of US citizenship. It was an emotional moment for his family of Syrian asylees, who came to this country a few years before the... -
Rendition Fallout: Former CIA Officer Convicted in Absentia by Italy Possibly Arrested in Portugal
Reports are circulating that Sabrina De Sousa, a former CIA officer, has been arrested in Portugal. De Sousa was among the many CIA employees prosecuted and convicted in absentia by an Italian prosecuto... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Russia and Syria continue their coordinated air and ground operations against anti-Assad forces in the Idlib and Hama provinces in what one Syrian official referred to as a large offensive to reclaim wes... -
A Vision of the Future: Facebook Post-Safe Harbor
Our buddy Jane Smith has a lot of European friends. As such, the collapse of the safe harbor agreement has hit her Facebook account hard. -
The D.C. Circuit, Military Commissions, and Pre-9/11 Offenses
What was already shaping up to be a busy (and important) few months for the D.C. Circuit vis-a-vis the Guantánamo military commissions just got a little busier. -
Rational Security: The "He Said, Xi Said" Edition
Cody makes a guest appearance on the show, and he, Shane and I discuss whether the Obama administration has outplayed China on cyber spying. The Taliban is on the march in Afghanistan. What does this mea... -
Surveillance Reform Is Only Hope for Reviving Safe Harbor
In my last post, I said that the European Court of Justice decision in Maximillian Schrems v. Data Protection Commission ignores some inconvenient truths. US frustrations with European double standards o... -
Focus on Palestinian Rights, Not Palestinian State
Editors Note: This piece originally appeared on Markaz.
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