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The Week That Was: All of Lawfare In One Post
Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Lawfare, happy birthday to you. This week marked the blog's third birthday, as Ben noted. Another milestone, this one flagged by Ritika... -
Manchin/Heitcamp Syria Proposal and the Vienna Convention on Treaties
Senators Manchin and Heitcamp are working on an alternative Syria Resolution that tentatively provides: The failure by the government of Bashar al-Assad to sign and comply with the [Chemical Weapons] Con... -
Punishing Syria
The rhetoric of “punishment” has been a ubiquitous justification for intervening in Syria. -
Resources on Conflict in Syria from CRS
Steven Aftergood from Secrecy News has helpfully posted new and updated Congressional Research Service reports on the conflict in Syria: Possible U.S. Intervention in Syria: Issues for Congress, Septembe... -
President Obama Seems to (Begin to) Back Away from Decision to Intervene in Syria
Last Saturday President Obama said he had “decided that the United States should take military action against Syrian regime targets,” and that he had made that decision “as Commander-in-Chief based on wh... -
I Spy, You Spy, We All Spy?
Among the documents that Edward Snowden released are reports showing that the NSA had been picking up email and phone conversations by and among foreign leaders. Among the alleged targets were officials... -
Dehn on Syria and Humanitarian Intervention
John Dehn, a professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law and a Senior Fellow in West Point's Center for the Rule of Law, writes in with this comment about Syria and humanitarian intervention: ... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
It's a little quieter on the Syria front today. A few items of interest before the weekend: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has filed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee resolution---which passed 1... -
Updated Lawfare Coverage of Legal Issues Regarding Military Action in Syria
Lawfare-ers have been quite prolific in the debate over U.S. intervention in Syria. -
September 2013 Guantanamo Recidivism Report from DNI
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has published its congressionally-mandated, biannual report on the recidivism of former Guantanamo detainees. -
The NSA and Encryption
By now, many readers will have seen this report from the New York Times on the capabilities of the NSA to crack encryption systems used in cyberspace. I'm not surprised. That, after all, is the task we... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Some Lawfare news to begin: We have officially passed the 500th roundup mark. Feel free to send us comments, sonnets, flowers, or all of the above. Now on to the substance. As Raffaela noted yesterday, ...
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