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Despite the government shutdown, the Senate Judiciary Committee is moving forward with its planned hearing on FISA.
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Here's something I am very excited about: the Revolutions Podcast. Revolutions, which describes itself as "a weekly podcast series examining great political revolutions," is the latest project of a guy n...
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Back in July, we published the second paper in the Lawfare Research Paper Series, an essay entitled "Strategic Terrorism: A Call to Action" by Nathan Myhrvold.
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On Thursday, Brookings hosted an event on possible U.S. military intervention in Syria.
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Lawfare readers already know Laura Dean, author of the Cairo Diary we have been running the past few months. I met Laura a few years ago, when she was a Senate staffer and a close mutual friend brought ...
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Lawfarers will recall Ben's trip, two months back, to Bangkok and the 26th annual International Military Law and Operations (MILOPS) Conference. While attending MILOPS, he interviewed a number of key co...
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On Friday, Brookings hosted Bob Litt, the General Counsel to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
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Readers will recall that, for a week last June, Ben was hanging out in Bangkok, at the International Military Law and Operations (MILOPS) Conference. While there, he took in an interesting and important...
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On May 31, 2013, the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution hosted Rached Ghannouchi, co-founder and president of Tunisia's Islamist ruling party, Al Nahda, for an address on th...
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This week, I interviewed CDR Walter Ruiz, a lawyer for accused 9/11 co-conspirator Mustafa al-Hawsawi.
Our discussion touched on, among other things: the fairness of military commission rules; Ruiz's co...
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UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counterterrorism, Ben Emmerson, came by the Brookings Institution this morning for a wide-ranging discussion on his investigation of drone strikes. We had planne...
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On April 24, Ben gave a talk at Britain's Parliament. The Henry Jackson Society organized the event, which was entitled "Are Drones the New Guantanamo?"
A lively question-and-answer session followed Be...
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On Monday, my Brookings colleague Bruce Riedel held an excellent discussion with Philip Mudd, former deputy director of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center and author of the new book Takedown: Inside the H...
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The Federal Public Defender Office for the Districts of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island has said it expects to represent Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, according to Mir...
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The subject of lethal autonomous weapons has been one of considerable debate on this site---following a
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Here is video of the plenary panel from last week's ASIL conference, entitled "International Law in the Obama Administration: The First Four Years." Moderated by Donald Donovan, the panel included former...
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What a useful contribution to the debate! From the Washington Post.
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As you no doubt already know, Kentucky's junior Senator, Rand Paul, on Wednesday filibustered John O. Brennan's nomination to be CIA Director for thirteen hours (with help, in part, from his Senate colle...
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Congratulations to Duke Law School's Charlie Dunlap, who as executive director of the Center has organized another outstanding LENS conference. You can follow it live streaming from the link at the webp...
