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The hearing will get underway at 10:00 a.m.. Video will be available via C-SPAN and other outlets.
The Director of National Intelligence will testify; his written statement can be found here.
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Last night, President Obama delivered his State of the Union Address. You can find the full video here. The speech focused on a strong call of action and a promise to go it alone if Congress doesn’t adva...
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I am not sure why this is a big deal, my knowledge of the British legal system being less than fulsome, but a British barrister has written a legal opinion calling into question large swaths of surveilla...
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Judging by Daphne Eviatar's account over at Just Security and Charlie Savage's at the New York Times, it was a pretty scripted and brief (nineteen minutes of open session) affair.
Thus far, the Periodic...
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. . . nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.
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President Obama, in the State of the Union address tonight, made the following remarks:
Tonight, because of the extraordinary troops and civilians who risk and lay down their lives to keep us free, the U...
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We’ll start with global developments:
In Egypt, General Abdul-Fattah el-Sisi, who has ruled the country since the ouster of Muslim Brotherhood-backed (and democratically elected) Mohammad Morsi, has tak...
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Today, Abdel Malik Ahmed Abdel Wahab Al Rahabi.
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Speaking of agency general counsels (as I did in my post yesterday morning about the appointment of Jim Baker as FBI General Counsel), many foreign governments are wondering when President Obama will nom...
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Late last year, as one of the fall outs from the Snowden disclosures, the NSA announced its intention to fill a completely new office -- a civil liberties and privacy officer who would serve as a direct ...
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An innovative thinker, David McMahon, of SecDev sent me a fascinating piece the other day entitled Think Big on Cyber. The folks at SecDev do some of the most cutting edge security work I know and they ...
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What harm has Edward Snowden done to his country?
When Snowden asserts that the National Security Agency listens to encrypted Russian diplomatic traffic, it takes the Russians about twenty minutes to sh...
