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Lawfare Podcast Episode #20: Daniel Markey on U.S.-Pakistan Terrorism Cooperation and Pakistan's Extremist Groups
This is the third in a series of interviews I am doing with scholars around Washington D.C. who have non-legal expertise that bears on the national security legal questions near and dear to the hearts of... -
NYT's Scott Shane on Cyber Ops and Secrecy
Scott Shane raises important questions in his article today about transparency and offensive U.S. cyber capabilities and operations. There are lessons to be learned from the U.S. experience with respect... -
Shane Harris on the Smackdown
Washingtonian writer and respected, strict-constructionist Smackdown judge Shane Harris has this piece on last Sunday's Main Event. Here's how it begins: Sunday was a great day for flying. Flying drones... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Adam Entous, Siobhan Gorman, and Evan Perez of the Wall Street Journal have this must-read article about the degree to which Pakistanis give the United States its consent for drone strikes. Ben, Ken, and... -
NPR on the Lawfare Drone Smackdown
Carrie Johnson had this piece about the Smackdown on NPR’s “All Things Considered” yesterday. It begins: National Security Experts Go Rogue For 'Drone Smackdown' -
A "Retreat" From Presumptive Classification in MiliComms?
That's the report from James Connell III, a lawyer for 9/11 defendant Ammar al Baluchi. Connell's statement provides, in full: 9/11 prosecution retreats from presumptive classification -
Today’s Headlines and Commentary
BBC News reports that the European Court of Human Rights has agreed to the extradition of Abu Hamza---the Muslim cleric accused of planning a terrorist training camp in the United States---as well as fou... -
John Villasenor: Thoughts on the Smackdown
John Villasenor---a Brookings colleague who is also a professor of electrical engineering at UCLA---has done a lot of policy work on domestic drone use. He writes in with the following thoughts on the Sm... -
Supplementary Declarations and Exhibits Filed in Al Maqaleh
Petitioners yesterday filed supplementary declarations and exhibits in Al Maqaleh, better known as the after-Boumediene-does-Guantanamo-habeas-jurisdiction-run-to-Bagram case. During a hearing on the go... -
Follow Up on the Rosenzweig Smackdown Declaratory Policy
In response to my post last night about the countermeasure I wish I'd thought of, Ben asked me if it would really be effective. Specifically, he asked: How could you have fried the kids' computer and An... -
Thoughts on the Smackdown and a Declaratory Policy
Well, as you might imagine, our defeat at the hands of the Wittes cyberwarriors has had me doing some thinking. In truth, we actually considered the possibility of cyber war but rejected it as beyond ou... -
Drone Smackdown -- Previews from a Loser
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