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ODNI and DOJ Release Last Section 215 Collection Order
On Friday, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court authorized the extension of the NSA's collection of bulk telephony metadata under Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act until November 29th, 2015—the l... -
Reflections on the UN Commission of Inquiry Gaza Report, Part II: The Target Audience
In Part I of this series, I looked at the historical narrative adopted by the authors of the Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry (COI) on the 2014 Gaza war. In this post, I want to look at th... -
Piracy and the Political Question Doctrine in Non-Conflict Uses of Force
The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea issued a provisional order in the Enrica Lexie case on August 24th. This epic legal battle between India and Italy concern's the latter’s efforts to pros... -
More Harmful Public Hand-Wringing on Possible Sanctions Against China for Cyber Theft
“The Obama administration is developing a package of unprecedented economic sanctions against Chinese companies and individuals who have benefited from their government’s cyber theft of valuable U.S. tra... -
The Week That Will Be
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Domestic Counterterrorism: Material Support or Bust
Editor’s Note: A longstanding counterterrorism tension is how to balance a robust intelligence presence and tough legal measures against hardcore terrorists with the need to gain the support of local com... -
The Lawfare Podcast, Special Encore Performance: Bone-Crushing Zombie Action
In case you missed it last year, here's our special end of summer reairing of a Lawfare Podcast special edition: -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
On Monday, the Third Circuit issued its decision in the potentially landmark case Federal Trade Commission v. Wyndham Worldwide Corporation et al, on the FTC’s ability to regulate private-sector cybersec... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
More news has come in on the discovery, made yesterday, of a truck filled with bodies abandoned east of Vienna. Austrian authorities have now counted 71 bodies believed to be refugees seeking asylum in w... -
Rational Security, the "Don’t Check Your 401(k)” Edition
This week on Rational Security: We speculate wildly on how China’s economic free fall could affect U.S. national security? What does international law have to say about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine? And ... -
DCCA Vacates and Remands in Klayman Metadata Suit
The panel's ruling in the challenge brought by Larry Klayman and others was split. A quick Per Curiam order explains that the challenge to the NSA's bulk telephony metadata collection is not moot. -
Israel: Munich or Helsinki
Israeli control over parts of the West Bank, as well as its influence over the movement of goods and people to and from the West Bank and Gaza, is an anomaly in the modern world. Official and unofficial ...
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