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Can Twitter Materially Support ISIS While Actively Working to Defeat It?
Can you provide material support to a terrorist organization at the same time that you are actively and effectively working against that organization? In a new study published this week by George Washin... -
Will the Federal Court Address Whether We Were at War with al Qaeda Prior to 9/11?
In Al Nashiri v. Obama, a panel of the D.C. Circuit appeared to be leaning toward allowing the federal courts to address when hostilities began with al Qaeda. Al Nashiri is challenging the authority of ... -
Statement from Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins
Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins issued the following statement on Saturday, February 13th: CHIEF PROSECUTOR MARK MARTINS REMARKS AT GUANTANAMO BAY 13 FEBRUARY 2016 -
Tweeting Terrorists, Part III: How Would Twitter Defend Itself Against a Material Support Prosecution?
In Part I of this series, we listed the many designated foreign terrorist organizations (DFTOs) that seem to have overt Twitter accounts. -
Tweeting Terrorists, Part II: Does it Violate the Law for Twitter to Let Terrorist Groups Have Accounts?
In the first part of this series, we noted the rather large number of designated foreign terrorist organizations that seem to have open Twitter presences, and we posed the following questions: Is Twitter... -
Tweeting Terrorists, Part I: Don’t Look Now But a Lot of Terrorist Groups are Using Twitter
Guess how many designated foreign terrorist organizations have apparently official Twitter feeds. Hint: More than you probably think. -
Governance is the Key to Defeating IS: Lessons Learned from Counterterrorism in Yemen
Editor's Note: The Islamic State has metastasized beyond Iraq and Syria, establishing so-called “provinces” in many Muslim countries. This spread has alarmed U.S. officials, and Yemen – home of Al Qaeda’... -
2016 Worldwide Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community
On Tuesday, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper provided the annual Worldwide Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community to Congress. -
French Constitutional Amendment on Emergency Powers Moves Forward
The National Assembly voted this week to adopt an amendment that would enshrine the state of emergency in the French Constitution and extend denaturalization to dual-nationals born in France who are conv... -
What's in the CIA's Note to the Reader on the SSCI Torture Report?
When the Senate Intelligence Committee initially released its Study on the CIA’s Enhanced Interrogation Program in December 2014, the CIA quietly released a Note to the Reader along with its Fact Sheet, ... -
The Case for Delisting the PKK as a Foreign Terrorist Organization
Removing the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) from the State Department’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) would create conditions for greater security cooperation between the United States a... -
Will Umm Sayyaf Walk Free Despite Her Role in the Abuse and Death of Kayla Mueller?
Last summer, U.S. forces conducted a raid in Syria that resulted in the capture of Umm Sayyaf, an ISIL member involved in the imprisonment and rape of women including American citizen Kayla Mueller. She...
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