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On his recent trip to the United States, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi emphasized India's desire to take up a greater role on the world stage. With India's renewed ambition, it is increasingly impo...
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Jack continued to analyze the ISIS-AUMF controversy this week, and noted that history suggests Congress will only authorize force against ISIS “if the President proposes and pushes for an authorization (...
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I'm excited to be hosting FBI Director James Comey this coming Thursday for a speech and conversation on encryption at the Brookings Institution. Here's how Brookings is describing the event:
Going Dark...
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According to the Wall Street Journal, the President's people are "drafting options" to bring about Guantanamo's closure, an objective that would require the White House to get around a statutory restric...
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Tragic news out of Yemen: a suicide bomber reportedly blew himself up in a crowd of protesters, killing approximately 70 people.
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Congressional Republicans are reportedly rushing to condemn the White House’s alleged consideration of ways to close Guantanamo and move detainees to the United States despite legislative prohibitions. ...
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DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson gave a very useful speech earlier this week at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Entitled "Border Security in the 21st Century," it provides a detailed overvi...
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The estimable Carol E.
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Some responses to an overly optimistic take.
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We start with a tweet from Jenan Moussa, a reporter on the ground just across from Kobani in Turkish territory:
Praying for peace? Kurdish man prays; smoke from #Kobane in background. @akhbarpic.twitter....
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Today marks our last little dispatch about the preliminary injunction hearing in the case of Abu Wa’El (Jihad) Dhiab, Syrian national, cleared-for-release Guantanamo detainee, and---most relevantly for p...
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Here's some video of some recent NSA debates.
Here's one that took place a couple of weeks ago at Georgetown on "The NSA, Privacy & the Global Internet: Perspectives on EO 12333." Participants included ...
