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The Foreign Policy Essay: The Danger of Politicized Intelligence after a Nuclear Deal
Editor’s Note: Part of the job of intelligence officials is to give bad news to policymakers. But should officials at times soften their assessments or otherwise pick their battles in order to maintain t... -
Audio of the Triple Entente Beer Summit!
The Triple Entente Beer Summit was a great success, with an audience that filled the Washington Firehouse loft and a cast that mashed up the Lawfare Podcast, Rational Security, and the Steptoe Cyberlaw P... -
A Few Thoughts on the Second Circuit's 215 Decision and Its Importance
From day one of the Snowden revelations, we all knew that the legal validity of the 215 program hinged ultimately on the capaciousness of a single word: "relevant." Even those of us who generally support... -
Matthew Waxman to be the New NSA General Counsel
Shane Harris breaks the fabulous news over at the Daily Beast: Matthew Waxman, a law professor and former senior national security official in the George W. -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
On Thursday, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the NSA’s bulk telephone metadata collection program by ruling that the program wasn’t authorized by the language of Section 215 of the Patrio... -
A Reader's Two Questions About the 215 Opinion
A reader familiar with surveillance matters writes in with these two questions about yesterday's opinion from the Second Circuit: 1) The opinion seems to turn on the Court's belief that either not enoug... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Yesterday, FBI Director James Comey said that federal law enforcement officials determined hours before the cartoon contest in Garland, Texas that one of the gunmen had expressed interest in going to the... -
How the Second Circuit’s Decision Changes the Legislative Game
It is clear that the Second Circuit’s ruling that the NSA’s bulk collection of Americans’ telephone records violates Section 215 of the Patriot Act will have significant implications for the current legi... -
On the Second Circuit's Section 215 Decision
The most interesting issue in the opinion concerns ratification of the FISC's interpretation of Section 215 by Congressional reauthorization of the Patriot Act. I think the decision boils down to a judg... -
Tonight: Triple Entente Beer Summit at Washington Firehouse
Join Lawfare tonight from 6:00-9:00 pm at the Washington Firehouse for the first Triple Entente Beer Summit. Grab your ticket online, or pick up one at the door. -
Canadian Court Releases Omar Khadr on Bail
From the Washington Post (via the Associated Press): TORONTO — A former inmate at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who was convicted of killing a U.S. -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the NSA’s warrantless bulk collection of Americans’ phone records under Section 215 of the Patriot Act is illegal.
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