Latest in Highlights
Published by The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With 
-
A Leftist Defense of PRISM---And Critique of Snowden
Here's something you don't see every day: A leftist defense of the NSA and critique of leaker Edward Snowden. It ran a few days ago in a publication called In These Times, which I used to read back when... -
Cairo Diary, July 5: "Friday of Rejection"---and Violence
So much violence tonight. When people called for the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak in 2011, they clashed against state security forces with a clear goal in mind. There was a positive objective. Not ... -
Lawfare in South Africa: The "Obama Docket"
Although President Obama's visit to South Africa went off uneventfully, it is worth reporting belatedly that the Muslim Lawyers Association in South Africa had filed an application with a South African c... -
Petitioners' Reply Brief Filed in Force Feeding Dispute
We blogged earlier in the week about a motion brought by four detainees at Guantanamo----Ahmed Belbacha, Nabil Hadjarab, Abu Wa'el (Jihad) Dhiab, and Shaker Aamer. -
Drones v. Angry Birds
From Shane Harris, shot in Santiago de Compostela in Spain: -
On French Espionage
The NYT, based on a Le Monde story, reports that “France has its own large program of data collection, which sweeps up nearly all the data transmissions, including telephone calls, e-mails and social med... -
Cairo Diary, July 4: The First Day of the Rest of Egypt's Life
In the U.S., the Fourth of July is the nation's birthday. In Egypt, it's the first day of the rest of the country's life. It happened so fast that many of us are still in shock, still processing everyth... -
Using the Internet in China
Well, I'm back from China and I'm quite glad I did not take my personal electronics with me. I thought it might be useful to summarize my experiences with internet access in China, kind of as a report f... -
Will Obama Administration Cut Off Foreign Assistance to Egypt?
Early this morning the White House released a statement by President Obama on Egypt stating, inter alia, that "Given today's developments, I have also directed the relevant departments and agencies to re... -
Cairo Diary, July 3: Praying We Don't Get Fooled Again
At 7 p.m. this evening, Mohamed Morsi was informed by the armed forces that he was no longer president of Egypt. Prime Minister Hisham Qandil has been sacked and sentenced to one year in prison. All I ca... -
USG Opposition to Detainees' Motion for Preliminary Injunction to Stop GTMO Force-Feeding
Earlier this week Ben posted on a motion, brought by a group of Guantanamo detainees and asking the District Court to preliminarily enjoin force-feeding at the detention facility. The court ordered the ... -
Nathan Myhrvold on "Strategic Terrorism: A Call to Action" (Lawfare Research Paper Series)
A few weeks ago, I found myself at dinner in Seattle with a man named Nathan Myhrvold. Myhrvold, for readers who have never heard of him, is the founder and CEO of a company called Intellectual Ventures.
Topics
