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The Cairo Diary: Anniversary of a Massacre and A General's Birthday
Tahrir Square, November 19, 2013. As you enter Mohamed Mahmoud Street from Tahrir Square, a sign reads, “The borders of Egypt. Entry is prohibited for Muslim Brotherhood, Army and remnants of the Mubara... -
The November NSA Trove V: Congressional Stuff
Our little November NSA Trove-a-thon will shift gears now. -
NYU Center for Law and Security Conference: "Law and Strategy in an Era of Evolving Threats"
Here's is video of the conference on Tuesday at NYU's Center for Law and Security: "Law and Strategy in an Era of Evolving Threats." The first panel dealt with "The Role of the Courts in Intelligence an... -
The November NSA Trove IV: The Internet Metadata Collection Story Develops
Your latest dispatch from the November NSA Trove: a trio of judicial opinions on internet metadata acquired, in bulk, by means of pen register and trap-and-trace ("PR/TT") devices. (Recall that, in 2004... -
An Undertheorized Retrenchment
Back in September, I wrote the following: Imagine you were a high-level decision-maker in a clandestine intelligence agency. Imagine that you had played by the rules Congress had laid out for you, worked... -
Daniel Byman on "Iran's Terrorism Problem"
Over at the Brookings Iran@Saban blog, my colleague Daniel Byman---who has agreed to curate a foreign policy essay feature for Lawfare (more on that later)---has this interesting essay on "Iran's Terrori... -
Bagram Detainees Repatriated to Pakistan, Is Habeas Appeal Moot?
A few weeks ago, Bobby and John reacted to a Washington Post story reporting that seven hundred Afghan detainees at Bagram Air Force Base whom the US transferred to Afghan custody earlier -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The Times is reporting that an American drone has hit an Islamic seminary in northwest Pakistan early this morning. This is the first American drone strike outside of Pakistan's more turbulent tribal reg... -
The November NSA Trove III: More Details on the Bulk Telephony Metadata Program
Next in the November NSA Trove: the filling in of some additional detail, and in five different FISC-related documents, regarding the collection and handling, by the NSA, of telephony metadata on a mass ... -
The November NSA Trove II: Judge Kollar-Kotelly's Opinion on Internet Metadata
The NSA had come knocking. It sought judicial permission to obtain, by means of pen registers and trap and trace devices, vast swaths of internet metadata within the United States. That request’s stagg... -
The November NSA Trove I: An Introduction
The latest tranche of declassified NSA materials is pretty big. But not all of the materials rank equally, significance-wise; at the same time, many of the documents---though undeniably important---are... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Let's begin with the rather-sudden developments in a future U.S.-Afghan security agreement: Afghans want President Obama to admit American military errors in exchange for compromise on American counter...
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