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Here are the reports from the Federal agencies on the new incentive programs I mentioned:
Department of Treasury [this is the official link -- but it isn't working just now]
Department of Homeland Secu...
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The other day, Jack posted an excerpt from a Foreign Policy article by Professor Bruce Ackerman, advocating for Senator Wyden to take advantage of the Speech and Debate Clause and disclose classified inf...
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Consistent with the earlier cybersecurity Executive Order, the Administration has been working on ways of incetivizing the private sector to adopt the Cybersecurity Framework under development by NIST. ...
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Let’s begin with all things Al Qaeda. Sources revealed that Ayman al-Zawahiri allegedly told Nasir al-Wuhayshi, leader of AQAP and Al Qaeda’s number two, to “do something.” Barbara Starr of CNN reports t...
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Three Guantanamo detainees filed their opening brief yesterday in Aamer v. Obama. Shaker Aamer, Nabil Hadjarab and Ahmed Belbacha are appealing the D.C. District Court’s denial of their motions for a pre...
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This story from Ellen Nakashima and Anne Gearan, in the Washington Post, reports that the threat leading to the closure of so many embassies and consulates involves a direct order from Ayman al-Zawahiri ...
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The New York Times editorial page is annoyed, though not surprised, that
some politicians are trying to exploit the [embassy closure] episode by arguing that it proves the value of the National Security ...
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David J.R. Frakt---a legal scholar, former defense counsel with the Office of Military Commissions, and a Lt. Col. in the U.S. Air Force Reserve JAG Corps---writes in with the following extended thoughts...
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Two developments in Hatim et al. v. Obama et al., the D.C. Circuit case regarding JTF-GTMO's detainee access procedures for defense counsel: one, the filing of additional briefing regarding the stay of a...
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In this post I want to offer some extended thoughts on the question of encryption and its intersection with surveillance on the web. The jumping off point for this discussion is a recent article by Decl...
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With the current controversies over the NSA's surveillance programs, I want to return to broader issues about how to think about the role of courts in the national-security area.
In this area, governme...
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Most people already know that U.S. embassies around the world are closed through at least Saturday. And lots of media are covering it.
