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My Job Posting
After almost three years at Brookings, a large portion of which I have spent working on Lawfare, I'm going off to Georgetown's School of Foreign Service to work on politics and security issues in South A... -
Confusing Jurisdiction, Abstention, and Substance: A Reply to Peter Margulies
It’s clear from his post this morning that my friend Peter Margulies believes that Al-Nashiri’s new habeas challenge to his trial by military commission, which rests on the claim that the United States w... -
Oversight & JSOC: Withholding Funds to Force Disclosures on Targeting Process?
Has DOD failed to comply with its statutory obligation to explain to Congress how the executive branch decides which groups and persons are within the scope of the AUMF? HASC Chairman McKeon has release... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Terror continues in Nigeria. After the leader of Boko Haram released a video saying over 200 schoolgirls are being held hostage, three gunmen opened fire at another school---but thankfully, no one was in... -
Al-Nashiri, the Cole Bombing, and the Start of the Conflict with Al-Qaeda
The habeas challenge to military commissions recently filed by Abd Al Rahim Al-Nashiri is a loser on both procedure and substance. Al-Nashiri, the alleged mastermind of the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole,... -
Der Spiegel on U.S.-German Relations
A very interesting article in Der Spiegel about U.S.-German relations, the NSA investigation, and Ukraine in light of Angela Merkel's recent trip to Washington. The bottom line is that the Ukraine crisis... -
Focusing on Law Facilitating Technological Innovation
As has been reported widely, the White House Big Data review was released last week. Paul provided initial analysis. While the report does not seem to counsel dramatic action, several of the recommendati... -
John Villasenor on Driverless Cars and Liability
Wells and I and our Brookings colleague John Villasenor have begun a paper series of civilian robotics. Some of it is a little beyond normal Lawfare fare, but some of it will be in the heartland. The fir... -
Today’s Headlines and Commentary
After 46 people died last Friday in riots across east Ukraine, and pro-Russian demonstrators stormed Odessa police headquarters on Sunday to free 67 people detained after rioting, Ukraine has sent an eli... -
At the Nexus of Cybersecurity and Public Policy: Some Basic Concepts and Issues
The Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the National Academies is pleased to announce the release of a report entitled At the Nexus of Cybersecurity and Public Policy: Some Basic Conc... -
Is the NSA Story Coming to an End?
Stewart Baker began this week's Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast---which always opens with the week's NSA news---by noting that there was virtually no NSA news this week. That which did exist, moreover, was not ... -
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