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National Security Highlights from Last Week's Democratic and Republican Presidential Debates
Earlier this week, the Democratic and GOP presidential candidates took to stage for their sixth and eighth respective debates. -
Statement from Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins
Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins issued the following statement on Saturday, February 13th: CHIEF PROSECUTOR MARK MARTINS REMARKS AT GUANTANAMO BAY 13 FEBRUARY 2016 -
Cyber (In)security in India
In the week leading up to the India’s 67th Republic Day on January 26, 2016, the National Investigation Agency apprehended 14 Islamic State “sympathisers” who had planned to carry out coordinated attacks... -
The Week That Will Be
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What Gordon England Didn’t Tell You about Guantanamo Transfers
In last Sunday’s Washington Post, former Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England challenged current Defense Secretary Ash Carter to resign before transferring any more detainees from the Guantanamo de... -
Tweeting Terrorists, Part III: How Would Twitter Defend Itself Against a Material Support Prosecution?
In Part I of this series, we listed the many designated foreign terrorist organizations (DFTOs) that seem to have overt Twitter accounts. -
Tweeting Terrorists, Part II: Does it Violate the Law for Twitter to Let Terrorist Groups Have Accounts?
In the first part of this series, we noted the rather large number of designated foreign terrorist organizations that seem to have open Twitter presences, and we posed the following questions: Is Twitter... -
Tweeting Terrorists, Part I: Don’t Look Now But a Lot of Terrorist Groups are Using Twitter
Guess how many designated foreign terrorist organizations have apparently official Twitter feeds. Hint: More than you probably think. -
Governance is the Key to Defeating IS: Lessons Learned from Counterterrorism in Yemen
Editor's Note: The Islamic State has metastasized beyond Iraq and Syria, establishing so-called “provinces” in many Muslim countries. This spread has alarmed U.S. officials, and Yemen – home of Al Qaeda’... -
The Lawfare Podcast: Daniel Placek on Darkode
Last week as part of the University of Texas at Austin Strauss Center's conference on "The Frontiers of Cybersecurity Policy and Law," Daniel Placek, formerly one of the key figures behind the undergroun... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Cody Poplin and I shared the Senate Armed Services and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s hearings on worldwide threats. And I also summarized the U.S. Intelligence Community’s worldwide threa... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The United States and Russia have announced agreement on a ceasefire in Syria set take effect next week. The plan will move forward the delivery of much needed aid to besieged Syrian cities.
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