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Matthew Olsen, former director of the National Counterterrorism Center, stopped by Harvard Law School last week to offer his perspective on the changing nature of the terrorist threat. After giving a bri...
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Jack continued to analyze the ISIS-AUMF controversy this week, and noted that history suggests Congress will only authorize force against ISIS “if the President proposes and pushes for an authorization (...
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I'm excited to be hosting FBI Director James Comey this coming Thursday for a speech and conversation on encryption at the Brookings Institution. Here's how Brookings is describing the event:
Going Dark...
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Here's some video of some recent NSA debates.
Here's one that took place a couple of weeks ago at Georgetown on "The NSA, Privacy & the Global Internet: Perspectives on EO 12333." Participants included ...
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Editor’s Note: As the United States goes to war in Iraq and Syria, President Obama and senior administration officials have repeatedly stressed the threat the Islamic State poses and emphasized the organ...
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First things first: one Lawfare post has gone viral this week, causing Lawfare to break all of its previous daily traffic records yesterday.
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My Brookings colleagues Daniel Byman (who is, among other things, Lawfare's Foreign Policy Editor) and Jeremy Shapiro (who is, among other things, a demon with a barbecue and a slab of meat), have a new ...
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(Author's note: Apologies to Geoff and everyone else - I somehow managed to delete the last couple of paragraphs of this post when it went up. I'll recover them--including the part of the post that actu...
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Marc Sageman probably needs no introduction to most Lawfare readers.
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Editor’s Note: The recent killing of Al Shabaab leader Ahmed Abdi Godane is only one of the most recent U.S. attempts to disrupt Al Qaeda and associated movements by targeting their leaders. Although the...
