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Clive Walker on "Deportation With Assurances: UK Experience and Angst"
Clive Walker of the University of Leeds writes in with the following update on national security law news from Britain: -
Lawfare Podcast Episode #49: A Panel at NYU on "Law and Strategy in the Executive Branch"
On Tuesday, NYU's Center on Law and Security held a day-long conference on “Law and Strategy in an Era of Evolving Threats.” I have already posted the video of the sessions, but one of them, in particula... -
The Foreign Policy Essay: Afshon Ostovar on "Seven Things to Know About Iran’s Revolutionary Guards"
A few hours ago, the United States and five world powers reached an agreement with Iran to freeze and even roll back aspects of its nuclear program. Iran pops up on Lawfare from time to time, in part bec... -
Introducing "The Foreign Policy Essay"
As I mentioned the other day, I have asked my Brookings colleague Daniel Byman to curate a new feature on Lawfare: A weekly essay, to run on Sundays, on foreign and military affairs topics of interest to... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare In One Post
NOCON//REL TO ALL: Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper declassified a trove of documents pertaining to pen register/trap-and-trace (PR/TT) collection pursuant to section 401 of FISA and b... -
The November NSA Trove VI: More Congressional Stuff
The next items in our November NSA Trove, like those summarized in a prior post, focus on congressional oversight. -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Yesterday came news that the United States has been collecting British citizens' phone and email information. The reactions followed quickly. Sir Malcom Rifkind, chair of the parliamentary intelligence a... -
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...
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