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In breaking news, Edward Snowden is no longer holed up in an airport terminal---he has been granted asylum for one year in Russia. Several Latin American countries had granted Snowden's request for perm...
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Back when we founded Lawfare nearly three years ago, I got a call from a woman named Brooke Goldstein, who runs a group called The Lawfare Project based in New York. She was interested in possible collab...
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The D.C. Circuit today scheduled oral argument in Aamer v. Obama, a Guantanamo hunger strike case. (The court recently refused to the petitioners' request for an emergency injunction against forced-feed...
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Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Dianne Feinstein penned a Washington Post op-ed.
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Here's the "Primary Collection Order" authorizing the collection of telephone metadata, signed by FISC Judge Roger Vinson (signed April 25 and expiring on July 19th, 2013), declassified.
Also declassifi...
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A big hearing is taking place this morning at 9am before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Media report that the Verizon order will be declassified at this hearing.
Catch it live at the
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In light of yesterday's events in the Bradley Manning case, I really want to see this fascinating-looking documentary:
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Steve’s latest insightful and well-argued comments on Former Government Officials and Military Lawyers’ amicus brief in al Bahlul highlight one important difference between us, but obscure that issue wit...
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In one of the first lower court decisions since the Supreme Court's somewhat opaque decision in Kiobel in June, a court in the Northern District of Alabama last week dismissed a suit brought under the Al...
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After hearing evidence in a contested bench trial, Army Colonel Denise Lind, a military trial judge, found Pfc.
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Earlier today, Jack posted a brief note on a list of old OLC opinions that have just been compiled and released. One item just leaped out at me from the list -- this entry:
Authority of the President to...
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Thanks to his "sur-reply", I finally understand the premise of Peter Margulies’s argument—and his amicus brief—in al Bahlul with regard to why the en banc D.C. Circuit can affirm Bahlul’s conspiracy conv...
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From The Guardian's live blog:
Manning has been found not guilty of the most serious charge of "aiding the enemy". However the private has been found guilty on five counts of violating the espionage act....
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Via Steve Aftergood at Secrecy News, I see that OLC has published a large cache of old opinions from 1933-1977. The opinions are all included in one volume.
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Let’s take a break from all things NSA today.
The verdict in Pfc. Bradley Manning’s trial will be announced at 1 p.m., reports Julie Tate of the Washington Post. I’ll post the news as soon as I have it....
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That's the essence of yesterday's order from the D.C. Circuit.
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Whenever someone buys things from Amazon.com using our little search widget on the sidebar, Lawfare gets a percentage of the purchase price. If you're thinking about buying big heavy law school text book...
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The Atlantic has an interesting article out about a new Pew poll showing a striking gender gap internationally in attitude towards drone strikes.
