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Lawfare topics took a backseat in the news this week, what with the Supreme Court's attention-grabbing week. The justices were too busy with same-sex marriage, the Voting Rights Act, and affirmative acti...
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Only a small number of Lawfare readers have ever heard of Michael Broukhim, but he has played an important role in the development of this site. Broukhim is an internet entrepreneur who was, when we were...
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This afternoon, the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Law and National Security will present a panel discussion entitled "NSA Surveillance Leaks: Facts and Fiction."
The event will be hos...
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We are pleased to announce that over the last few weeks, Lawfare---which began as a collaborative project of its three founders with no formal organizational structure---has become a non-profit corporati...
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We are very pleased to announce Lawfare's first e-book, Lawfare on the National Defense Authorization Acts, which is now available in Kindle format on Amazon for $4.99.
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The age of international and transnational terrorism came to prominence in the late 1960s and 70s, and then kicked into high gear in the 1980s, particularly where terrorists were supported by, and someti...
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Lawfare readers probably already know that we had a few technical difficulties this week that resulted in the site's being intermittently inaccessible for a couple of days. We hope we're past all of that...
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For those readers who haven't noticed, Lawfare has been experiencing significant technical difficulties over the past 36 hours---intermittent outages ranging from a few minutes to, in a couple of cases, ...
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I'm pleased to announce two new collections of resources for the Lawfare Wiki Document Library. Thanks to Alan Rozenshtein, we now have a page devoted to war powers---which includes everything from decla...
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Like most people accessing the Internet this week, we at Lawfare were a bit focused on everything related to the Edward Snowden leaks. We had some other valuable commentary, though, including a rather in...
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Published by Free Press (2012)
Reviewed by Stephen C. Neff
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Published by Free Press (2012)
Reviewed by Amy J. Sennett
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Last week, the inter-agency Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) approved Japanese telecommunications firm SoftBank's purchase of a 70% interest in Sprint-Nextel.
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Unsurprisingly, the dominant story on Lawfare concerned a leaked FISA Court order and the disclosure of the NSA's PRISM program. Here are Steve's post, written when the Guardian first published its piece...
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Monday finds me in Bangkok---jetlagged and exhausted---at the 26th annual International Military Law and Operations (MILOPS) Conference, which is convened every year by U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM). I do...
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Hearing few objections (and indeed many expressions of support!), I forge ahead with Lawfare's newest feature: the Week That Was.
The week's big news was that President Obama plans to nominate James Com...
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In light of Jim Comey's reported selection as FBI director, this 2005 speech---published later in the Green Bag---is a matter of inherent interest. It's one of the things I'll be reading over the next fe...
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Many thanks to all of of those readers---all 505 of you---who took the time to fill out our readership survey. While the survey is not a scientific instrument, the data it collects will be hugely valuabl...
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The main topic on Lawfare this week was the President's address at the National Defense University on counterterrorism policy.