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I have only had a chance to look briefly at the Guantanamo-related provisions of the House-Senate compromise NDAA, but the text looks to me like a big win for the Obama administration---and for common se...
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In case you're having trouble sleeping tonight, here is the 1,105-page full text of the compromise NDAA and the mere 532-page Joint Explanatory Statement on the bill. I'll have comments as soon as I go t...
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Quite intrusive, it seems---at least according to this letter filing, which was submitted yesterday in Hatim v. Obama, the "Counsel Access Case." Oral argument also was held yesterday, as y'all likely kn...
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The Brennan Center for Justice released today a new report titled “National Security and Local Police.” They conducted surveys of more than a dozen major police departments and their affiliated state or...
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Cheng Li’s and Ryan McElveen’s good post over the weekend (via Daniel Byman) sparked the following reflections on U.S. economic espionage, post-Snowden. Li and McElveen nicely summarize U.S.-Chinese rel...
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The world mourns Nelson Mandela's passing today. A memorial service was held in Soweto, South Africa.
Members of the House and Senate armed services committees have reached a deal regarding the 2014 Nat...
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As 2013 draws to a close, I was reflecting on some of the things that happened, and some of the things that did not. One that struck me is that we celebrated the 10-year anniversary of the "National Str...
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Monday evening, Senate and House armed services committee leaders announced that a compromise has been largely reached with regard to the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act. Among those matters incl...
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The snow-drizzle may have slowed down the first two branches of government and every nonprofit in town on Monday morning, but the judiciary didn't budge much: oral argument this morning in the appeal of ...
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The world of massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG) just got a little weirder. This morning Mark Mazzetti and Justin Elliott of the New York Times
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Jose Aleman, Editor-in-Chief of the Stanford Journal of International Law, writes in with this seemingly quite Lawfare-relevant announcement:
As the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 Commission Report approa...
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David Remes wrote in to rebut my recent post, which stated that some forced repatriations are a “virtually inevitable part of any plausible plan” toward closing Guantanamo. I’ve pasted Remes’ entire not...
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U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel was in Afghanistan on Saturday to press for a security deal but "consciously chose not to see President Hamid Karzai," says the New York Times, as tensions inc...
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Lawfare readers have followed and discussed the Snowden revelations with a mixture of dread and excitement. Our focus, understandably, is on the impact of the leaks on the intelligence community and on U...
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As the Obama administration re-energizes efforts to winnow the Guantanamo population through transfers to other countries, it will be squeezed from many sides -- including from those who see the transfer...
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Readings: Christopher Borgen, "Russia, Moldova, and the EU: Realpolitik as Normative Competition," Opinio Juris, October 23, 2013; Christopher Borgen, "The Protests in Ukraine and Normative Geopolitics,"...
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Colombia is a bright spot in the otherwise-bleak world of trying to restore functioning government to the undergoverned spaces of the world. It's a country that a decade ago was mired in narcoterrorism, ...
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Detention: In Ali v. Obama the D.C. Circuit denied Abdul Razak Ali's habeas appeal.
