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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 -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Switzerland happens to be the location of a lot of action---or inaction---in the world: As Clara noted, peace talks on Syria began in Montreux yesterday, and quickly spiraled into finger-pointing, accus... -
PCLOB Report on NSA Surveillance
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A Critique of the New America Foundation's Recent NSA Report
I am a big fan of Peter Bergen. His book, Manhunt, about the search for Osama Bin Laden is one of the most useful and informative and gripping reads on a counterterrorism matter I have come across in a l... -
Documentary: Secret State of North Korea
Last week PBS 'Frontline' released a short documentary on life under the Kim Jong Un regime (trailer below). Using illegal footage provided by an undercover network of journalists and North Koreans as a ... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
A report surfaced yesterday which details accusations of horrendous and wide-sweeping torture tactics employed by the Syrian government. -
Global Commission On Internet Governance
It's been a busy day in cyber-related news. The last entry (for now) is the announcement in Davos of the creation of a Global Commission on Internet Governance. As readers of this blog know, I think th...
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