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Revelations From the Newly Declassified FISC Opinion on Section 702
Last week, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) declassified several Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) opinions from 2015. One opinion from November…
The Early Edition, April 27, 2016
Before the start of business, Just Security provides a curated summary of up-to-the-minute developments at home and abroad. Here’s today’s news. IRAQ and SYRIA Syria’s…
Yes, Russia’s Antics in the Baltic Sea Violate “International Rules”
Recently, Russian aircraft ‘buzzed’ a US Navy ship and ‘barrel rolled’ over a US Air Force plane above the Baltic Sea. The fallout cast a distracting pall over last week’s…
Teaching National Security Law / Counterterrorism Law Next Year?
As folks may have noticed, my blogging has tapered off a bit quite a lot lately… Although most of the drop-off has baby-related causes, I’ve also been spending a lot of…
Would JASTA Violate International Law?
Writing in The New York Times last Friday, Curt Bradley and Jack Goldsmith argued that the Justice Against State Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA) would “violate a core principle…
The Early Edition, April 26, 2016
Before the start of business, Just Security provides a curated summary of up-to-the-minute developments at home and abroad. Here’s today’s news. IRAQ and SYRIA Sending 250…
National Security-Related Congressional Hearings, April 25–29
Below is a calendar of congressional hearings on national security matters for this week. Monday, April 25 5:30pm – Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs – Business…
The Proposed Military Commissions Fix Is Anything But
This post is the latest installment of our “Monday Reflections” feature, in which a different Just Security editor examines the big stories from the previous week or looks…
The Early Edition, April 25, 2016
Before the start of business, Just Security provides a curated summary of up-to-the-minute developments at home and abroad. Here’s today’s news. IRAQ and SYRIA Syrian peace…
Recap of Recent Posts at Just Security (April 16–22)
I. Encryption Julian Sanchez, Feinstein-Burr, Encryption, and “The Rule of Law” (Tuesday, April 19) Elizabeth Goitein, Guest Post: The FBI’s Warrantless Surveillance Back…
We Need to Know More About the US’s Role in Yemen
A crowd quickly gathered when I arrived last month in what remained of the market in Mastaba, a small highway town in northern Yemen. A week earlier, on March 15, warplanes from…
The National Security Council as FOIA “Agency”
Two weeks ago, Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-Ind.) introduced a bill that would define the National Security Council (NSC) as an “agency” for purposes of the Freedom of Information…