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Today’s Headlines and Commentary
Three days of peace talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders have not yielded any breakthroughs, but Secretary of State John Kerry says that he is "comfortable that the major choices are on the table,"... -
Assessing the Review Group Recommendations: Part V
Chapter V of the Review Group report turns to what we might call the problem of Angela Merkel. It's not about what the legal authorities to spy should look like. It's about what policy structures should ... -
Assessing the Review Group Recommendations: Part IV
Closing out our discussion of the Review Group recommendations in Chapter IV, let's consider the latter two recommendations of the chapter: Recommendations #14 and #15. Recommendation #14 is, to me anyw... -
The Foreign Policy Essay: "2013 – The Year We Lost Iraq?"
Violence in Iraq in 2013 was worse than at any time since 2008 – when Iraq was still in the throes of its all-out civil war that had led to over 100,000 deaths. And Iraq’s problems are getting worse, not... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare In One Post
Reviewing the Reviewers: The President's Review Group report continues to inspire debate. Carrie Cordero gave a thoughtful three-part analysis of the Report: Part I looked at the Review Group's process ... -
Telephony Metadata Cases Appealed
No big surprise here: the government, in the D.D.C., and the ACLU, in the S.D.N.Y., have filed their notices of appeal in two cases, Klayman v. -
D.C. Circuit: OLC Opinion on Exigent Letters Exempted from FOIA
Today, a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit rejected an important Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") lawsuit brought by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The group had sought disclosure of a 2010 ... -
Part III: The Diamond Buried Deep in the Surveillance Review Group Report
What follows is the last in a short, three-post assessment of selected aspects of the surveillance review group report. In this post, I highlight what is, in my view, the most productive of the review gr... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
More from Snowden’s Treasure Trove: apparently, the NSA is trying to build a quantum computer “that could break nearly every kind of encryption used to protect banking, medical, business and government r... -
Guantanamo Special Envoy Cliff Sloan on Transfers
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DC Circuit to Hear Challenge to SEC Conflict Minerals Rule: Did the SEC Weigh the Costs and Benefits to the DRC?
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Afghanistan on Verge of Releasing 88 Former US-Held Detainees, Over US Objections
On New Year's Eve the New York Times reported that the Karzai Administration has given preliminary approval for the release of 88 Afghan detainees who were once held in US custody in Afghanistan and who ...
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