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“Ideating” on ISIS and Silicon Valley
In a lot of Silicon Valley meetings, participants “iterate,” “ideate,” and “sync,” and do other buzzwordy things. Every once in a while something innovative and impactful…
News Roundup and Notes: January 20, 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. PAKISTAN UNIVERSITY ATTACK…
National Security-Related Congressional Hearings, January 19–22
Below is a calendar of congressional hearings on national security matters for this week. The Senate is in session, but the House is not. Wednesday, January 20 9:30am – Senate…
International Justice Year-in-Review: Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards (Part 2)
Editor’s Note: We asked editors Beth Van Schaack and Alex Whiting to do a roundup of the top international criminal justice stories from 2015 and what readers should keep an…
International Justice Year-in-Review: Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards (Part 1)
Editor’s Note: We asked editors Beth Van Schaack and Alex Whiting to do a roundup of the top international criminal justice stories from 2015 and what readers should keep an…
News Roundup and Notes: January 19, 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 Three Americans…
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Just Security will be on an abbreviated schedule with a lower volume of posts than normal. If any major, time-sensitive developments occur,…
Recap of Recent Posts at Just Security (January 9–15)
I. Surveillance & Civil Liberties Hugh Handeyside, Guest Post: Social Media Companies Should Decline the Government’s Invitation to Join the National Security State (Tuesday,…
USA Freedom: The Rubber Meets the Road
The National Security Agency has released its Transparency Report on the implementation of the USA Freedom Act — as well as the minimization procedures to be used for the new…
James Comey’s Default-Encryption Bogeyman
FBI Director James Comey recently told the Senate Judiciary Committee that encryption routinely poses a problem for law enforcement. He stated that encryption has “moved from…
Fixing Pre-Publication Review: What Should Be Done?
Jack Goldsmith and Oona Hathaway called attention in several recent columns to the pre-publication review process (here, here, here, and here) that many current and former national…
News Roundup and Notes: January 15, 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 Turkey has…