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The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
First things first: one Lawfare post has gone viral this week, causing Lawfare to break all of its previous daily traffic records yesterday. -
Judge Kessler Orders Release of Guantanamo Force-Feeding Videos
An important development today in Dhiab v. Obama: over the government's objections, D.C. District Court Judge Gladys Kessler has ordered the unsealing of secret videos that show Guantanamo Bay prisoner A... -
Dropping "Khorasan" for "al Qaeda"
There has been much talk about the "Khorasan Group" over the past several weeks, including occasional sharp questions regarding its nature and provenance. -
So How <em>Does</em> Vladimir Putin Feel About Cyber, Anyway?
Two days ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a significant cybersecurity speech to Russia’s Security Council. For all you Russian speakers, the original text and video can be found on the Kremlin’... -
<em>Lawfare's</em> Digest of Declassified Documents from CIA's In-House Intelligence Journal
A few weeks back, in response to a FOIA request, the Central Intelligence Agency made public a trove of documents from Studies in Intelligence, the agency's in-house intelligence publication. The FOIA-re... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The Associated Press reports that a U.S. Marine who ejected from a MV-22 Osprey when the plane lost power over the Persian Gulf is “presumed lost at sea.” The news marks the first reported casualty in t... -
Panetta Slams White House on Iraq Withdrawal
A big Monday-morning quarterback question since ISIL began overrunning parts of Iraq as Iraqi military forces collapsed has been whether the United States should have kept in place a significant residual... -
A Reply to Marty Lederman
Marty Lederman has a thoughtful response over at Just Security to my post from yesterday. -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Protests in Hong Kong continue to dominate headlines as the battle between security forces and students spirals into another day. According to the Washington Post, a high-stakes confrontation between pro... -
The Need for a New Agency to Regulate Robots
Joshua Bleiberg has a post on the Brookings Tech Tank blog summarizing Ryan Calo's new paper, which argues for a Federal Robotics Commission to broker the regulatory and legal issues new robotic technolo... -
Whistleblowers, Leaks and the Media: The First Amendment and National Security
Permit me a small amount of self-promotion, with apologies. But ABA Publishing has, today, released a new book, Whistleblowers, Leaks and the Media: The First Amendment and National Security, of which I... -
Folk International Law and Syrian Airstrikes
Earlier this year, I published an article called "Folk International Law," in which I argued that there were many unappreciated and little understood costs to the convergence of LOAC and international hu...
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