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Mysterious Discretion: When Journalists Wield Power We Don't Understand
Last night, Laura Poitras’s Citizenfour received an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, a win I have been anticipating since Glenn Greenwald won the Pulitzer Prize back in April for breaking the ... -
The White House Summit on Countering Violent Extremism
Last week, the White House convened a summit on countering violent extremism. The summit took place over three days and featured remarks by Obama administration officials, global leaders, law enforcement... -
Chief Prosecutor Statement on This Week's Hearing in the al Nashiri Case
Per our usual practice, Lawfare will be posting digests of the Al Nashiri military commission proceedings---which resume today at noon---throughout the week. First up is the statement by Brig. Gen. -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Nuclear talks between the United States and Iran continued today in Geneva. The New York Times points out that these talks are the first time that the “top nuclear officials” from both nations have joine... -
Why Should We Buy Into The Notion That The United States Doesn’t Care About Privacy?
It is a common perception that Americans care less about privacy than Europeans, especially after the attacks of September 11, and the Snowden revelations only seemed to reinforce that perception. Last w... -
The Week That Will Be
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The Foreign Policy Essay: Much Ado about Ukraine
Editor's Note: Russian support for separatists in eastern Ukraine and the civil war that has ensued have raised fears of a new Cold War. Indeed, many senior American and European officials have called fo... -
Inside a Hamas Attack Tunnel...
As Yishai Schwartz and Jennifer Williams noted in their Middle East Tickler report on Thursday, Israel’s Military Advocate General hosted a conference outside of Tel Aviv last week on international law a... -
The Lawfare Podcast: My Constitution Day Speech at NSA
In mid-September, I delivered the annual Constitution Day address at the National Security Agency. I had meant to post the speech back then, except that it being NSA and all, I wasn't allowed to bring m... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
President Obama discussed encryption in an interview he gave last week as part of the White House’s summit on cybersecurity and consumer protection. Susan Landau praised the President’s comments and desc... -
Oral Argument Recap: Tsarnaev Mandamus Litigation
For roughly 60 minutes yesterday morning, a three-judge panel of the First Circuit heard arguments as to whether Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death penalty trial should be moved out of Boston due to concerns that... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
In an address at a White House summit on countering violent extremism yesterday, President Barack Obama asserted that defeating ISIS will require a stable Syria and a political transition in the country,...
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