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South Korea is considering lifting its bilateral trade and exchange embargo on Pyongyang, despite reported U.S. efforts to maintain strong sanctions against North Korea until it begins denuclearizing, sa... -
Document: GAO Report on Defense Department Weapon Systems Cybersecurity
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently released its report for the Senate Committee on Armed Services examining the Defense Department's weapon systems cybersecurity. GAO investigators "rout... -
Faithful Execution of the Office and Laws: New Research on the Original Meaning of Article II
Writing here at Lawfare in the early days of the Trump administration, Benjamin Wittes and Quinta Jurecic zeroed in on a central dilemma of this presidency: What happens when the occupant of the office i... -
Revealing Intelligence on Jamal Khashoggi
Washington Post Global Opinions columnist Jamal Khashoggi has been missing since entering the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul, Turkey on Oct. 2. -
Counterintelligence Implications of Artificial Intelligence—Part III
This is the third post in my series about the counterintelligence implications of artificial intelligence (AI). The first two are here and here. I’ll start this one with a story. -
The Lawfare Podcast: Ambassador David O'Sullivan on the US-EU Relationship
It's easy to spend all our time focusing on American domestic politics these days, but the rest of the world is not going away. Take the European Union, for example—our neighbors from across the pond, an... -
The Cyberlaw Podcast: The California Turing Test
Bloomberg Businessweek’s claim that the Chinese bugged Supermicro motherboards leads off our News Roundup. -
Today’s Headlines and Commentary
U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley has tendered her resignation as of this morning. She is set to vacate her position at the end of 2018, reports the Washington Post. -
Saudi Journalist Disappears at Consulate in Turkey, Iraq Forms a New Government, U.S. Withdraws from Treaties after Challenges at International Court
Washington Post Columnist Disappears at Saudi Consulate in Turkey -
The ‘Big Brother Watch’ Ruling on U.K. Surveillance Practices: Key Points from an American Perspective
Last month, a divided chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (“ECHR”) (that is, a panel of seven judges from ECHR’s “First Section”) issued an opinion declaring several aspects of British surveill... -
Why China’s Disappearance of Interpol’s Chief Matters
Even seasoned China-watchers were startled last week when news broke that Meng Hongwei, the vice minister of China’s chief law-enforcement ministry, had disappeared. Meng is not just a high-level governm... -
China’s Human Rights Abuses Against Uighurs in Xinjiang
During a 2013 trip to Kazakhstan, Xi Jinping announced the “Belt and Road Initiative” (BRI)—China’s ambitious plan to enhance its “friendship” with the rest of the world through expanded investments in i...
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