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Readings: Autonomous Weapon Systems Links Post Updated
Back on December 11, 2012, I posted a special Readings page of links to articles, reports and other materials on autonomous weapon systems and their regulation. It is updated periodically; I've just add... -
Cyber in the Heart of Darkness
One of the most notable challenges in dealing with cybersecurity is the difficulty of adequately conveying the scope and size of cyberspace. It's easy to say that there are nearly 2.5 billion internet u... -
Emptywheel Side-by-Side of Holder Speech and White Paper
Over at the emptywheel blog, Ms. Wheel (aka Marcy Wheeler) has done a handy side-by-side of Attorney General Holder's Northwestern speech and the leaked White Paper. -
Carrie Cordero on FISA Court Lessons for a "Drone Court"
Carrie Cordero, Georgetown’s Director of National Security Studies and a former Justice Department national security official, writes in with the following thoughts on the FISA Court and its lessons for ... -
Observations About Targeting and Congressional Intelligence Oversight
The recent controversy about the Justice Department White Paper and the closely related Senate confirmation hearings for CIA director-nominee John Brennan have raised the profile of congressional intelli... -
STOCK Act: NAPA Study Seeks Information on Impact of Internet Publication of Financial Information
Here's an update on the status of Section 11 of the STOCK Act, the law enacted last year that would have required 28,000 senior executive officials (and senior military officers) to post their financial ... -
More on Drones versus Enhanced Interrogation
Further to Jack's post yesterday on the politics of drones versus enhanced interrogation, and my post earlier in the week about Peter Baker's article about the mounting criticism of the Obama Administrat... -
Lawfare Podcast Episode #27: Afghan Parliamentarian and Female Presidential Candidate Fawzia Koofi on Afghan Security and the Condition of Women and Girls
Fawzia Koofi (website, Twitter) is an Afghan Member of Parliament and Vice President of the Afghan National Assembly. She is also running for President of Afghanistan in the planned April 2014 elections,... -
Taming the Cyber Dragon?
While Ben has often mocked the New York Times for its opinions, the Washington Post has mostly escaped our attention. To a large degree this reflects the level-headedness of its opinions. So when it sl... -
VOA Urdu Webcast on Drone Policy
Voice of America Urdu produces a weekly webcast called "Access Point with Ayesha Tanzeem," which, this week, focused on U.S. drone policy and the legality of targeted killing in light of President Obama'... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Yes: Senate Republicans took an unprecedented step yesterday in preventing the invocation of cloture on their former colleague Chuck Hagel's nomination to be the Secretary of Defense. -
The Significance of DOJ’s Weak Response to Rogers’ Acknowledgment of CIA Drone Strikes
In an interview last weekend, Congressman Mike Rogers, the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, gave unambiguous acknowledgment of CIA involvement in drone strikes. The ACLU attached the interv...
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