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Live Q&A Today with NSA's Civil Liberties and Privacy Director
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence is hosting an "online, interactive" Q&A today with Rebecca Richards, the NSA's point person for civil liberties and privacy. Users can submit their que... -
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel is Stepping Down "Under Pressure"
Helene Cooper of the New York Times has the scoop today. There is still speculation as to why Hagel is being forced out -- stay tuned for more news. -
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The Foreign Policy Essay: Choosing from the Contentious Politics Buffet
Editor’s Note: Political groups representing ethnic, religious, or other minorities have a range of options for how to engage with the state, from nonviolent tactics such as protests and strikes to viole... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
First off, in anticipation of President Obama’s decision this week to take on the immigration issue, Ben examined the central question in the standoff between him and Congress: how much discretion does h... -
Judges Brett Kavanaugh and John D. Bates on Blogs and Judges in National Security Cases
At a recent panel on which I spoke at the ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security's annual conference, D.C. Circuit Judge Brett Kavanaugh and U.S. District Judge---and former FISA presiding j... -
A Reader Survey on Live Lawfare Events and Webcasts
We are currently planning to launch, in the new year, a series of live events, webcasts, and other forms of programming. Readers have been asking for more of this sort of thing from Lawfare for quite som... -
Throwback Thursday: The 1994 Budapest Memorandum
Editor’s note: For quite a while now, social media enthusiasts have been using the hashtag #tbt (or, in long-form, “Throwback Thursday”) as a way to reminisce about the past. Now Lawfare has decided to g... -
If You Haven't Yet Contributed to Lawfare
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Audio of ABA's "24th Annual Review of the Field of National Security Law CLE Conference"
The American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Law and National Security has released audio files of sessions from its recent annual conference. -
Upcoming Congressional Hearings on ISIL, Iran
The week before Thanksgiving features a few Congressional hearings of note for the Lawfare readership. Tomorrow at 10:00 AM, there is a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on ways of "cou... -
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The Foreign Policy Essay: A Better Response to the Foreign Fighter Threat
In January 2014, two French teenage boys ran away from their homes in Toulouse in search of adventure. Like a few hundred other young Frenchmen and over 2,000 Europeans, they looked for that adventure in... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
This week at Lawfare, a debate over President Obama’s stated support for a new AUMF to deal with ISIS dominated our content. -
Throwback Thursday: The Sykes-Picot Agreement
Editor's note: For quite a while now, social media enthusiasts have been using the hashtag #tbt (or, in long-form, “Throwback Thursday”) as a way to reminisce about the past. Now Lawfare has decided to g... -
Happy Veterans Day
From all of us here at Lawfare: a note of profound gratitude for the sacrifices made by our veterans and their families. -
Your Weekly Reminder to Contribute to Lawfare
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Event at Wilson Center on Islamic State AUMF and Related Issues
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"Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David," by Lawrence Wright
Published by Knopf (2014) Reviewed by Peter Baker -
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