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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...
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Senator Paul has proposed a declaration of war and authorization of force against the Islamic State. A few reflections, drawn in part from an article I wrote a decade ago with Curtis Bradley:
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I’ve been wrestling with an idea on electronic surveillance reform, and when I recently consulted with Benjamin Wittes about it, he encouraged me to post here and seek the feedback of Lawfare’s readershi...
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As a supporter of comprehensive immigration reform and director of Roger Williams Law School’s Immigration Clinic, I know the high stakes in the current debate about President Obama’s executive action. I...
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Mark Mazzetti and Eric Schmitt report:
President Obama decided in recent weeks to authorize a more expansive mission for the military in Afghanistan in 2015 than originally planned, a move that ensures A...
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The Senate yesterday buried---at least for now---surveillance reform, when Republican senators refused to allow the current draft of the measure to proceed to a vote. Glenn Greenwald has an interesting r...
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[Cross-posted at Just Security]
The three of us have coauthored an Op-Ed in Sunday’s Washington Post on the topic of congressional authorization for the use of force against ISIL and the 2001 AUMF. We ...
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Midday yesterday, I ran into a prominent national security reporter on the street near Brookings. The conversation quickly turned, as conversations tend to turn in our circles in Washington these days, t...
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Via Secrecy News, I see that the CRS has summarized and analyzed the seven proposals in Congress for a New AUMF.
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Deb Riechman at AP is reporting:
Militant leaders from the Islamic State group and al-Qaida gathered at a farm house in northern Syria last week and agreed on a plan to stop fighting each other and work ...
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The Pew Research Internet Project has released a new public opinion study that shows exactly what you would expect the public believes about privacy, surveillance, and related matters. The study seems to...
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Allow me to stress an issue perhaps in the capillaries, rather than at the heart, of the ISIS AUMF debate: language in the next AUMF’s preamble.
So far as I know, nobody is talking about this just yet.
