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The press scandals keep on coming for the Obama Administration.
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Today we will appear before the House Judiciary Committee, and will argue that Congress should put to rest the question of military detention for domestic captures. More specifically, we will argue that...
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An administration national security official writes in with the following thoughts on the furor over the warrant application against James Rosen of Fox News:
There is a great deal of hyperventilation---m...
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Ben and Bobby will be testifying in front of the House Judiciary Committee on "Protecting U.S. Citizens' Constitutional Rights During the War on Terror" at 10 am tomorrow at 2141 Rayburn House Office Bui...
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On Thursday, President Obama will be giving a major address on national security and counterterrorism, styled as a companion to the 2009 National Archives address. That 2009 speech adopted a pragmatic a...
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When I wrote, last week, about the insecurity of Gmail, I was intending to gently mock the idea that the CIA might have such a bad sense of how Gmail works (and the Terms of Service under which it is pro...
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My Brookings colleague Suzanne Maloney today launched a blog that will interest a lot of Lawfare readers.
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A few years ago I wrote an op-ed that gave these reasons (among others) why the USG should not prosecute Julian Assange for the WikiLeaks disclosures of State Department cables:
A conviction [of Assange]...
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I meant to post on this last week and clean forgot until I heard a bit of it on CSPAN radio yesterday. The Heritage Foundation held this event on detainee policy featuring all four people who have held t...
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Melissa Hathaway has a new essay that argues for putting cybersecurity and related issues on the G20 agenda:
To counteract these [cybersecurity] risks, some governments and businesses are turning to inte...
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Carrie Cordero, Georgetown’s Director of National Security Studies and a former Justice Department official, writes in with these thoughts on the AP subpoenas controversy and background law:
In light ...
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Peter Margulies, of Roger Williams School of Law, writes in with these comments on law, ethics, and the hunger strike ongoing at Guantanamo:
The hunger strike at Guantanamo has put bioethics on the front...