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Two cyber related items today:
The FCC is now in the cybersecurity business. It's $10M fine is the first of its kind to be levied against a telecom that, allegedly, stored personal information with ina...
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That's the headline from Michael Iskikoff at Yahoo! News reporting that the FBI has identified the suspected so-called "second leaker."
The story begins:
The FBI has identified an employee of a federal ...
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While the US midterm elections are still a week away, democratic contests elsewhere in the world are ongoing or have just concluded. In Brazil, the BBC reports that incumbent president Dilma Rousseff nar...
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Michael Hirsh has a piece at Politico on the disorganized, uncoordinated crafting and implementation of the administration’s strategy to defeat the Islamic State. Of particular interest to Lawfare reade...
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In his piece on Nobel Peace Prize Laureates pressuring the President to disclose information about torture, Charlie Savage explains why some officials in the administration oppose the broad extraterritor...
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The other day, I posted this video of the North Korean Ambassador to the United Nations giving a talk at the Council on Foreign Relations:
The question of whether or not a think tank like CFR should hos...
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The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) last week announced a new project on “Ethical Autonomy.” (This is a topic on which Ken and I have written, most recently in a piece co-authored with Daniel R...
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Marty Lederman and I have been engaged in a debate over the past few weeks, and last Monday he wrote a lengthy and thoughtful “Monday Reflection” over at Just Security concerning some of my arguments her...
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On Monday, November 3, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Zivotofsky v. Kerry, the long-awaited final act in a decade-plus-long saga surrounding the passport of an American boy born in Jerusal...
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Belatedly, I want to join the discussion about the extraterritorial application of the Convention Against Torture (CAT), about which Jack commented on Friday, drawing on an article by Charlie Savage earl...
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Editor’s Note: The savage fighting in Syria and now Iraq seems to grow worse every month. As the U.S. role in the conflict grows, so too does the need to understand the motivations of the fighters, inclu...