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The Week That Was: All of Lawfare In One Post
Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Privacy---worldwide privacy, that is: Last week Just Security’s David Cole argued for the existence of a global right to privacy, a claim to which Orin Kerr disagreed on... -
Colbert on Mike Rogers and Steve Vladeck
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Extraterritorial Right to Privacy: A Response by Luca Urech
Luca Urech (Fletcher School, MA candidate in Law and Diplomacy) has written in with the following reaction to my post on the extraterritorial right to privacy, discussing how we might apply the concept o... -
DOJ Reviewing Criminal Cases Utilizing FISA Intelligence, Will Notify Defendants
So reports Sari Horwitz at the Washington Post, who learned of this effort in an interview with Attorney General Eric Holder. In Clapper v. -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Would a cyber attack on the most vulnerable nodes of the U.S. power grid paralyze us, or would we be prepared? That's what 10,000 war gamers tried to assess in a simulation this week. -
Building a Grenade with Materials Purchased After Airport Security
Great. Just great. The explosion is not all that impressive, but I sure wouldn't want to be on an airplane when it happened. More information available here from the aptly-named site, Terminal Cornu... -
The First Circuit and the First Amendment
This week’s much-anticipated decision by the First Circuit in Mehanna v. -
The Tarek Mehanna Decision: A Brief Summary
As Ben previewed yesterday, the First Circuit Court of Appeals, in an opinion written by Judge Bruce M. Selya, affirmed the conviction of Tarek Mehanna on a number of terrorism and false statement charge... -
Heel Dragging and Losing Arguments: The Abdullah Briefing
The appellant and appellee briefs in a Guantanamo detainee's habeas-related appeal, Abdullah v. Obama, have been filed with the Court of Appeals for the D.C. -
The Air Goes Out of the Balloon: The Tarek Mehanna Appeal
We will post a full summary of the First Circuit Court of Appeals's decision in the case of Tarek Mehanna soon. -
The Other Witness Statements at Today's Senate Judiciary Subcommittee Hearing
Paul already linked to his and DNI General Counsel Bob Litt's testimony (which also represented J. -
My Senate Testimony -- The NSA and Transparency
I testified on Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law. The hearing was on the Surveillance Transparency Act of 2013 -- a proposal by Senator Fr...
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