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The Lawfare Podcast: Natan Sachs on Bibi's Big Day in Washington
This week, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a controversial address to a joint session of Congress in a move not coordinated with President Barack Obama. The speech, repeatedly interr... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a report on recidivism among former Guantanamo detainees this week. The report details that, while nine additional former detainees returned t... -
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New GITMO Recidivism Report Released by ODNI
The latest ODNI recidivism report is available here. The last report, which was released in September, is here. Since the release of the September 2014 report, an additional nine former detainees have r... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Iraqi forces continue to press into Tikrit, an Iraqi city seized by ISIS last June. To stall the Iraqi advance, ISIS fighters have set fire to oil wells, laced roads into Tikrit with explosives, and depl... -
FREAK: Security Rollback Attack Against SSL
This week we learned about an attack called "FREAK"---"Factoring Attack on RSA-EXPORT Keys"---that can break the -
Email Privacy, Overseas Jurisdiction, and the 114th Congress
Everything old is new again. Two years ago, I wrote about a bipartisan effort (in which I was and still am participating) to update the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. That effort, sadly, went n... -
Chris Jenks on the Petraeus Plea
The estimable Chris Jenks writes in from Australia with the following thoughts on my piece yesterday on the David Petraeus plea: Appreciated your comments on Petraeus. One additional factor which resonat... -
For Your Listening Enjoyment
Two new podcasts for your listening pleasure. Here's this week's episode of Rational Security, on which Shane Harris, Tamara Cofman Wittes, and I discuss Susan Rice's speech to AIPAC, recent development... -
Thoughts on the Petraeus Plea
Over at The Intercept, Peter Maass complains that the plea deal for David Petraeus is "yet another example of a senior official treated leniently for the sorts of violations that lower-level officials ar... -
Yesterday in <em>U.S. v. Tsarnaev</em>: Prosecution Witnesses
With opening statements made, prosecutors in the capital case against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev commenced their presentation of evidence. An overview of the day’s testimony---which spanned some of the morning a... -
Bits and Bytes
FTC v. Wyndham. The Third Circuit heard oral argument the other day in this long-running case that will test whether or not the FTC can use its "unfair" business practices authority to sanction companie...
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