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The other day both Bobby here and Ryan Goodman at Just Security here picked up on news reports that DOD may be willing to provide additional military cooperation (including logistics and direct fire capa...
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Back in February, I noted a provision tucked away in last year's National Defense Authorization Act: Section 1039, which obligated the Administration to study and report back to the House and Senate Judi...
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We begin with the NSA. As I noted yesterday, the ODNI and the DOJ declassified a new tranche of documents.
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IC on the Record has the latest document dump:
Today the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Justice released, in redacted form, a previously classified series of Foreig...
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Lots of news coming out of Syria today. First, we are told by the Human Rights Watch that there is “strong evidence” that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons against its people as recently as...
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This episode of the Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast features an interview with Chris Painter, the State Department’s Coordinator for Cyber Issues. Chris had a long and distinguished career at the Justice Depar...
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Estonian Voting. A new group, Estonia Voting, claims that there are major cybersecurity gaps in the Estonian electronic voting system: “As international experts on e-voting security, we decided to perfor...
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Iran claimed on Sunday that it had successfully recreated an American drone allegedly captured in 2011.
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The best review I have seen of Glenn Greenwald’s new book No Place to Hide is by David Cole in the Washington Post, who concludes:
This is an important and illuminating book.
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Two reasons often given for the need to transfer targeting killing by drone from CIA exclusively to DOD are (i) collateral damage reduction, because DOD supposedly has stricter targeting criteria and bet...
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In his response to my earlier Lawfare post on the FBI's investigation of Tamerlan Tsarnaev and a later review of that investigation by various Inspectors General, Michael German misconceives my argument....
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So reports the BBC. The incident apparently happened back in March:
A drone almost collided with a US commercial flight in March, an official with America's flight regulatory agency has revealed.