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Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, Stewart Baker has this interesting piece on whom to blame for the collapse of the cybersecurity bill, which failed on a cloture vote in the Senate the other day. Baker sugg...
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I am normally pretty good about keeping up with my Lawfare-related email, but sometimes, an important emails slips through the cracks. Andrew Kent of Fordham Law School sent me this comment on my post on...
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Over at the New Yorker blog, Steve Coll has this post on the al-Aulaqi operation, and on related reporting in Dan Klaidman's Kill or Capture.
Coll focuses on capture's infeasibility, one of the condit...
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And so it ends, not with a bang but with a whimper. Despite letters from the Director of NSA, General Alexander and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dempsey the motion to close the deb...
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No, not Latif the Guantanamo habeas case. This Latif is a recent 9th Circuit decision which I had missed until Shirin Sinnar of Stanford Law School sent me the following the other day:
In a little notice...
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That's the word from the Senate -- Majority Leader Harry Reid has filed for cloture to conclude the debate on the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 -- debate that began in earnest earlier today. In addition, he...
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Senator Leahy has an proposed Cybercrime Amendment to S3414 that would, effectively, substantially enhance penalties for cyber crime and impose mandatory minimum sentences. There are plenty of reasons t...
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My correspondent (and friend) Gus Coldebella, wrote in the other day with a response to an earlier post of mine, in which he wondered what the meaning of section 706(d) of the Lieberman-Collins bill is. ...
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We have two new entrants in the Smackdown—and we have a judge.
Shane Harris---senior editor of Washingtonian magazine and author of this book about surveillance and this paper on the “Human-Free Future ...
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As soon as I saw this Wall Street Journal oped yesterday from Holman W. Jenkins, Jr., I thought to myself--and said to Ritika--we need to hear from Shane Harris on this. Now we have.
Jenkins had suggest...
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Gus Coldebella, former Deputy General Counsel (and Acting General Counsel) for DHS and now a partner at Goodwin Proctor write in with this addition comment on the liability provisions of the Lieberman-Co...
