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Lawfare Podcast Episode #59: How Osama bin Laden Escaped Afghanistan
The Brookings Intelligence Project hosted Foreign Service Officer Yaniv Barzilai on January 23, 2014 to discuss his new book, 102 Days of War---How Osama bin Laden, Al Qaeda, and the Taliban Survived 200... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
As the week started, Lawfare continued with its coverage of last Friday’s presidential speech on surveillance reform. John wanted a strong condemnation of Edward Snowden, and was disappointed that the Pr... -
Modirzadeh on National Security Law as a Field
Naz Modirzadeh (Senior Fellow at the Counterterrorism and Humanitarian Engagement Project) has a paper in the latest issue of the Harvard National Security Journal that (i) posits the existence of distin... -
PCLOB Report -- The Short Version
Don't want to read the entire 230+ page report of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board on Section 215? Have better things to do with your weekend, but still want to know what's happening? Th... -
D.C. Circuit on Obaydullah: New Evidence Unhelpful to Detainee's Case
The D.C. Circuit, in an exceedingly brief and quickly-issued per curiam judgment, has affirmed the district court's denial of Obaydullah's motion regarding newly-discovered evidence related to his habeas... -
How Likely Is A Successful Attack On The Electric Grid?
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Today's Headlines and Commentary
The big news yesterday was the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board's rather hefty report on NSA surveillance. If you didn't catch Paul's post yesterday on whether the PCLOB overstepped its charge... -
CNAS Report on War in the Robotic Age
Robert Work and Shawn Brimley of the Center for a New American Security just published 20YY: Preparing for War in the Robotic Age. It’s a provocative report about how many new technologies (in cyber, ro... -
Readings: Sean Wilentz on Snowden, Greenwald, and Assange
Over at the New Republic, Sean Wilentz has this fascinating long piece about the ideologies of Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, and Glenn Greenwald. -
Private Sector Pay "Parity" for Federal Judges (and Agency General Counsels)?
The Washington Post reported last week that the salaries for the federal judiciary increased on January 1 after federal judges won a class action lawsuit last year challenging Congress’s refusal to give ... -
Asra Nomani on KSM and the Murder of Daniel Pearl
Washingtonian has this remarkable piece by Asra Nomani, journalist and dear friend to The Wall Street Journal's Daniel Pearl. As is well known, Pearl was kidnapped in Pakistan in 2002 and gruesomely beh... -
Did the PCLOB Overstep?
As The New York Times and Washington Post reported, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) is going to issue a report on section 215 of FISA and the te
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