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The Cyberlaw Podcast: Will an End to Social Media Trust Mean an End to End-to-end Encryption?
If you’ve lost the Germans on privacy, you’ve lost Europe, and maybe the world. -
Jared, Call the FBI
In a remarkable interview with Axios on HBO, Jared Kushner, a senior adviser in the White House (and, coincidentally, the president's son-in-law), made a number of notable statements. Among them is his a... -
The Legal Authority Behind Trump’s New Tariffs on Mexico
On May 30, the White House announced yet another new policy aimed at addressing the purported crisis of unlawful immigration across the U.S.-Mexico border. President Trump’s statement proposes a drama... -
The GCHQ’s Vulnerabilities Equities Process
In the U.S. there has been a long debate about “vulnerability equities”—that is, whether the government should disclose a vulnerability it discovers to the vendor, which will then allow users to apply a ... -
The Week That Will Be
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Alan Dershowitz Is Wrong About Impeachments
President Trump has suggested periodically that the Supreme Court would intervene to block a hypothetical impeachment and trial since (he argues) he has not committed a high crime or misdemeanor. Of cour... -
Militarizing the Peace: UN Intervention Against Congo’s ‘Terrorist’ Rebels
Editor’s Note: The civil war in Congo remains one of the world's bloodiest and most intractable conflicts. In response, the United Nations has authorized a large, and militarily aggressive, campaign to t... -
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in the Attorney General’s CBS Interview
Jan Crawford’s extraordinary CBS interview with Attorney General William Barr was released on Friday, May 31. In it Barr said some good things about why his investigation of the Trump campaign investigat... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
On Wednesday, Special Counsel Robert Mueller made an unexpected statement on the Russia investigation. He reiterated his findings and analysis, resigned from the Justice Department and formally closed th... -
A Different View on the President’s Delegation of Declassification Authority to the Attorney General
President Trump’s delegation of a narrowly defined declassification authority to Attorney General Bill Barr has attracted criticism, notably on this site by my colleagues David Kris and Benjamin Wittes. ... -
The Lawfare Podcast: Ben Huebner on Privacy and Civil Liberties at the CIA
The U.S. intelligence community is, by design, shrouded in secret, but it is ultimately responsible to the public. So how do intelligence agencies balance competing interests in protecting privacy and ci... -
Today’s Headlines & Commentary
President Trump announced that the United States will impose a 5 percent tariff on goods from Mexico to pressure the government to limit the flow of illegal migrants crossing the border, reports CNN. The...
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