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The text of S. 2105, the Cybersecurity Act of 2012, is now available. In preliminary coverage of the legislation, the Hill reports that the bill "abandons proposals that would give the president emergenc...
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As Leroy Jetson’s dog Astro used to say: “ruh roh.”
The most critical (no pun intended) portion of the soon-to-be-introduced (and newly renamed) Lieberman-Collins-Rockefeller-Carper (“LCRC”) cybersecuri...
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The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has scheduled a hearing on the "Cybersecurity Act of 2012" for Thursday, February 16 at 2:30PM. It will be webcast live here.
Those testif...
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There's a lot of news to catch up on today.
Schiphol airport in Amsterdam has been partially evacuated because of a bomb threat.
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The lead editorial in the Washington Post today, just adds to the political salience of the cybersecurity issue.
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I agree with Ken's, Roger Alford's, and Paul Rosenzweig's defenses of Harold Koh, all three of which seem to me correct: Koh has an attorney-client relationship with the government that he did not have a...
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Following the splendid University of Virginia School of Law conference last Friday at which DOS Legal Adviser Harold Koh delivered the keynote address, Notre Dame professor and Opinio Juris blogger Roger...
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NPR had a story today concerning the process of selecting between civilian and military commission prosecution options. It's an important topic. Unfortunately, the story included the following mistaken...
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Very interesting Washington Post article on this sentencing memorandum filed by the Justice Department in the Abdulmutallab case.
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Shocker! The AP reports that Al Shabab has formally joined Al Qaeda, according to a video message by Ayman al-Zawahri.
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I have only flipped through the House Armed Services subcommittee report entitled, "Leaving Guantanamo: Policies, Pressures, and Detainees Returning to the Fight," and I find I have little to say about it.
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The AP reports that a drone strike in Pakistan killed five militants this morning; one of the demisees was a gentleman named Badar Mansoor, a senior commander "suspected of killing dozens of people in at...