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An unprecedented level of security is in place today for the 118th Boston Marathon: 4,000 deployed police officers, over 100 surveillance cameras, and an underground coordination center filled with secur... -
And the Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes ....
For quite some time, it has been apparent that the announcement of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework would be a seminal event. Though couched as a voluntary program, many expected that the Framework woul... -
The Week that Will Be
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"Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA," by John Rizzo
Published by Scribner (2013) Reviewed by Benjamin Wittes -
The Foreign Policy Essay: Revenge of the Great Game
Editor’s Note: The recent events in Ukraine have dredged up memories of an era of great-power competition and territorial conquest driven by imperialistic ambitions that many observers believed had been ... -
Readings: NSA Report on the 702 Program
Below is the text of a Report/public comment on the 702 program submitted by the NSA Civil Liberties and Privacy Office to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), dated April 16, 2014. I... -
Radiolab on the History and Problems of the AUMF
This is a very impressive hour of radio based on this excellent story by Gregory Johnsen. John Bellinger and I both show up at various points in the discussion. It's neat what you can do on national secu... -
The Reality of Russian Surveillance
James Lewis of CSIS has an excellent post on the reality of the Russian surveillance system, a reality that is quite different from the impression created by Vladimir Putin during his recent televised ex... -
Kiobel Anniversary Surprise: Judge Scheindlin Rules Corporations May Be Held Liable Under ATS, Despite Second Circuit Precedents
In a surprising decision issued on the first anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Kiobel, Judge Scheindlin held, in the long-running Apartheid litigation, that corporations may be sued under th... -
Lawfare Podcast Episode #71: A Conversation with John Rizzo
I had meant to have a book review of former CIA lawyer John Rizzo's new book, Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA, ready to run along with this episode of the podcast. -
Bits and Bytes
India suggests renaming the Internet. Not, apparently, a joke: "In a major diplomatic initiative, India is all set to challenge the U.S.’ hegemony of the World Wide Web at a global meet on Internet gove... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Coming off of the heartbleed scare, attention this week still focused on internet vulnerabilities.
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