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The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Benjamin Wittes outlined what FBI Director James Comey’s letter to Congress does and does not mean. He also shared the comments of former NSA and CIA director General Michael Hayden on Sean Hannity’s new... -
Cyber Insecurity: Navigating the Perils of the Next Information Age
This is a plug for a new cyber policy book out this month: Cyber Insecurity: Navigating the Perils of the Next Information Age, edited by Richard Harrison, Director of Operations and Defense Technology P... -
Getting It Right for the First Customer
PDF version Review of David Priess's The President’s Book of Secrets: The Untold Story of Intelligence Briefings to America’s Presidents from Kennedy to Obama (PublicAffairs, 2016). *** -
Global Human Rights in America
PDF version A review of Mark Bradley's The World Reimagined: Americans and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2016). *** -
The Week That Will Be
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The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Benjamin Wittes argued for a non-partisan coalition of democratic forces to come together after the election to stand behind American democratic and legal institutions. He then outlined an agenda for how... -
Intern with Lawfare!
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The Week That Will Be
Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar) Monday, October 17 at 2pm: At the American Enterprise Institute, Roger F. Noriega will discuss Elusive Peace in Colombia with Juan Carlos Pinzon... -
Engaging the "Not-Yet-Guilty" in the Fight against Terrorism
Editor's Note: Countering violent extremism (CVE) is a perfect sound bite, a magic wand to solve terrorism before it happens. Yet many programs initiated in the name of CVE are poorly designed, and some ... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Jack Goldsmith questioned the effectiveness of US cyber deterrence following the official accusations that Russia was behind the DNC hacks. Jack followed up with some additional reactions to the Obama a... -
The International Legal Dynamics of Encryption
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The Next President’s Fight Against Terror
That is the title of a conference Ben and I are participating in next week in D.C. at New America, in conjunction with Arizona State University's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law and the McCain Institu... -
Hoover Book Soiree, Reminder: David Priess on "The President's Book of Secrets"
The next in our series of book soirees at the Hoover Institution's Washington Office will take place on Thursday, when Jack interviews David Priess about his new book: The President's Book of Secrets: Th... -
How Did Participation in the First World War Help Shape Modern America?
PDF version A review of Michael S. Neiberg's The Path to War: How the First World War Changed America (Oxford University Press 2016). *** -
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"War-Algorithm Accountability": A Briefing Report from the Harvard Law School Program on Law and Armed Conflict
Congratulations to Dustin Lewis, Gabriella Blum, and Naz Modirzadeh on the publication, just a few weeks ago, of their exciting new book, War-Algorithm Accountability. -
To Promote Stability and Democracy in Africa, Focus on Its Militaries
Editor's Note: The United States is more engaged in Africa than ever before. This increasing role is occurring as Africa struggles with political liberalization: although we’ve seen impressive successes,... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Benjamin Wittes explained why he is withholding commentary on reports that Yahoo is scanning emails for U.S. intelligence agencies, arguing that analysts should wait until the underlying documents are pu... -
The National Security Gap and the Myth of an ISIS-Busting Trump
A week ago, Ben posed the following question about what might be termed the national security gap: How have we come to a place where at least partly in the name of national security, a huge swath of th... -
American Military Culture and Civil-Military Relations Today
PDF version A review of Rosa Brooks' How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales From the Pentagon (Simon and Schuster 2016). ***
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