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I want to take issue with Peter Margulies’s laudatory remarks this weekend about the Harold Koh memos on extraterritorial application of the ICCPR and the CAT---you know, those memos that mysteriously sh...
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Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is still missing. Investigators are ruling nothing out, and Interpol's secretary general has expressed concern that two passengers were able to board the flight with stolen...
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Here's a random tidbit.
U.S. Cyber Command is a subcommand of the U.S. Strategic Command. On the Stratcom web site is a fact sheet about U.S. Cyber Command.
According to Internet archives, on May 27, ...
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A fascinating hour of radio from This American Life this week on that guy in Florida who was a friend of Tamerlan Tsarnaev and was killed by the FBI during an interrogation session in the wake of the Bos...
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Editor’s Note: The United States has considerable economic resources, but it is often unable to harness the full power of these resources in its foreign policy. Any discussion of America’s decline or U.S...
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Lawfare readers---and listeners---know Sophia Yan as the pianist who recorded our podcast music. But she's also, in her other life, a reporter for CNN Money in Hong Kong.
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FISC Presiding Judge Reggie B. Walton yesterday rejected the government's request to retain telephony metadata beyond five years.
On January 3, 2014, the FISC approved the government's request to collec...
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This episode doesn't really need much introduction. It's a discussion and debate between Anthony Romero, head of the ACLU, and Michael Chertoff, former DHS Secretary, at a Federalist Society event a coup...
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The news is here. European officials confirm that at least two of the passengers whose passports were used to board MH370 were not, in fact, on the plane and that those who boarded the plane were using ...
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At Lawfare, the week began as usual: Wells posted our latest podcast, a discussion between a number of senior Brookings scholars on “The State of International Order.” Dan Byman wrote this week’s foreign...
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As Jack has frequently observed, legitimacy and effectiveness often go hand-in-hand. The two comprehensive State Department memoranda by former Legal Adviser (and Yale Law School dean) Harold Koh releas...