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Shane Harris was the first ever guest on the Lawfare Podcast, and today, he becomes the first ever return guest. The Foreign Policy writer has had a busy week covering the CIA-SSCI flap.
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In the latest episode of the Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Jason Weinstein and I cover a host of topics.
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The Senate Armed Services Committee is currently holding hearings with two nominees for high-ranking military posts: General Paul J. Selva, USAF is being considered for commander of United States Transpo...
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This episode doesn't really need much introduction. It's a discussion and debate between Anthony Romero, head of the ACLU, and Michael Chertoff, former DHS Secretary, at a Federalist Society event a coup...
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Last year, I was arguing with a couple of my partners, Michael Vatis and Jason Weinstein over the latest developments in privacy and security law. It was fun, mainly because they’re smarter than I am and...
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I'm delighted to announce that I've persuaded the folks who run the excellent, must-listen Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast to host it on Lawfare. I started listening to this podcast---a weekly interview series ...
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I haven't watched these two speeches from the RSA conference yet, but Paul tells me they are both worth seeing:
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Last November, the University of Richmond invited Ben and Conor Friedersdorf to participate in a debate on the ethics of drone warfare. Conor is a familiar voice in the anti-drone camp, as those who have...
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The hearing is happening now, and can be viewed over at the Judiciary Committee's website or at C-SPAN.
The witnesses from the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board will be:
The Honorable David M...
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Here is the audio from Monday's event at the Berkman Center at Harvard, "Defending an Unowned Internet." I have edited it slightly for length. The intervention by Tim Berners-Lee, for those interested in...
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Robert Litt, the general counsel to the director of national intelligence, has emerged as one of the administration's point men on response to the Snowden revelations, the defense of the intelligence com...
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The Brookings Intelligence Project hosted Foreign Service Officer Yaniv Barzilai on January 23, 2014 to discuss his new book, 102 Days of War---How Osama bin Laden, Al Qaeda, and the Taliban Survived 200...
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President Obama delivered a major policy address this afternoon---and the White House released an accompanying policy directive---in response to the recommendations of his surveillance review group, the ...
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Below is the video of the discussion that took place today at Brookings on the President's NSA speech.
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On December 19, my Brookings colleague Michael O'Hanlon hosted a remarkable event featuring General Stanley McChrystal (Ret.) and Kristina Talbert-Slagle of the Yale Global Health Research Institute disc...
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The Senate Judiciary Committee is currently holding a hearing regarding several of President Obama's nominations, which include that of John Carlin, nominated for the position of Assistant Attorney Gener...
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It’s the final episode of “Inside NSA: We Brought in a Recording Device So You Don’t Have To”—our special series of podcast interviews we've been running this week with senior NSA officials.
In the fift...
