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The Foreign Policy Essay: Charles Lister on "The anti-Jihadist Revolt in Syria"
The revolt against the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (greater Syria), usually referred to by its acronym ISIS, is the latest dramatic turn in the Syrian civil war. In the last few weeks, a range of r... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
This week Lawfare focused on the debate over surveillance reform. -
Brookings Event on President Obama's Speech
Below is the video of the discussion that took place today at Brookings on the President's NSA speech. -
Brookings Event on the President's Speech Tomorrow
The Brookings Institution will host---and Ben will speak at---a panel event tomorrow afternoon following President Obama's speech on NSA reform and the Review Group Report. We will embed the event video,... -
Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on the President's Review Group Report
The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing to review the Report of the President's Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technology. The scheduled witnesses are the members of the Revi... -
"Afghanistan: A Distant War," by Robert Nickelsberg
Afghanistan: A Distant War Robert Nickelsberg; Foreword by Jon Lee Anderson; Introduction by Ahmad Nader Nadery Prestel U -
The Foreign Policy Essay: "Syria's Other Foreign Fighters"
The Syria conflict hasn’t really stayed in Syria. The trickle of Sunni jihadists traveling to Syria to fight quickly became a flood, with their numbers rapidly surpassing those in past wars, the anti-Sov... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare In One Post
Although this week’s most noteworthy leaks came out of the New Jersey Governor’s office, Lawfare is still analyzing the ripples of earlier federal disclosures. Raffaela pointed us to two statements out ... -
The Foreign Policy Essay: "2013 – The Year We Lost Iraq?"
Violence in Iraq in 2013 was worse than at any time since 2008 – when Iraq was still in the throes of its all-out civil war that had led to over 100,000 deaths. And Iraq’s problems are getting worse, not... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare In One Post
Reviewing the Reviewers: The President's Review Group report continues to inspire debate. Carrie Cordero gave a thoughtful three-part analysis of the Report: Part I looked at the Review Group's process ... -
Joel Brenner: "Mr. Wemmick's Condition; Or, Privacy as a Disposition, Complete with Skeptical Observations Regarding Various Regulatory Enthusiasms" (Lawfare Research Paper Series)
The War on Law Reviews continues on many fronts: land, sea, air, and particularly in the cyber domain, where today I am pleased to offer the next paper in the Lawfare Research Paper Series: Joel Brenner’... -
The Foreign Policy Essay: C. Christine Fair on "Lashkar-e-Taiba: Pakistan’s Domesticated Terrorists"
Lashkar-e-Tayiba (LeT), which operates under the name Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JUD), is both an important and misunderstood terrorist group. LeT grabbed world attention in 2008, when its operatives attacked hotel... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare In One Post
Continuing coverage of the President's Review Group Report: Ben posted a detailed two-part (so far) analysis in which he separates "the good from the bad, and both from the unimportant" in the Review Gro... -
"Getting Away With Murder: Benazir Bhutto's Assassination and the Politics of Pakistan," by Heraldo Munoz
Published by W.W. Norton (2014) Reviewed by Bruce Riedel -
The Foreign Policy Essay: Elizabeth Dickinson on "Financing Extremism in Syria"
The civil war in Syria has confounded U.S. -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare In One Post
Who's Ringo? This week District Court Judge Richard Leon’s strong rebuke of bulk telephony metadata collection in Klayman v. Obama stole the headlines---from dismissing Smith v. Maryland as excessively a... -
Rick Perlstein Slimes Lawfare
I would normally leave a very slimy blog post like this one uncommented upon. But Rick Perlstein, the author of this particular post on The Nation's web site, is a very distinguished author of some very ... -
Lawfare Podcast Episode #54: Inside NSA, Part III---Wherein We Talk to Lonny Anderson, Chief of NSA's Technology Directorate
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Live: Senate Intel Hearing on Nominees Caroline Diane Krass and Daniel Bennett Smith
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Lawfare Under Cyber Attack: Stick With Us, Please
Well, that will teach us to post podcast interviews with NSA officials! We have been experiencing intermittent outages this morning. They appear to be the result of cyberattacks coming from IP addresses...
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