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I've developed a bit of a backlog of things to post--a regrettable function of a crushing work volume in some of my various other lives and the fact that Lawfare, as it grows, requires more and more day-...
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Two amicus briefs were delivered today in the en banc phase of GTMO detainee Ali Hamza Ahmad Suleiman Al-Bahlul's appeal to the D.C. Circuit. The accused, as readers well know, was convicted by a militar...
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As Jack and Raffaela noted yesterday, the D.C.
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Chris Woods, who until just recently used to spearhead the Covert Drone War investigation at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism in London, writes in with the following comments on my post from the ot...
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The House narrowly voted down the Amash-Conyers amendment to curb NSA phone surveillance to specific targets of law enforcement investigations.
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Last October, I noted the publication of a House Intelligence Committee report on the possibility of hardware intrusions arising from the use of products manufactured by Huawei and/or ZTE (two Chinese te...
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As Raffaela noted this morning, on remand from the Supreme Court’s rejection of the political question doctrine in Zivotofsky v. Clinton, the D.C. Circuit today held that Section 214(d) of the 2003 Forei...
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Word on the street was that Edward Snowden has received documents giving him permission to depart his temporary home in a Moscow airport. The AP reports, but the New York Times says it's not the case, af...
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On Monday, Judge Michael Shea of the District of Connecticut dismissed an ATS and TVPA suit against former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo based on a Suggestion of Immunity filed by the Justice Departm...
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Sometime late today or perhaps tomorrow the House of Representatives will vote on a proposed amendment to the Defense appropriations bill offered by Representative Justin Amash (R-MI) and co-sponsored by...
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A recent cluster of stories – on al Qaeda’s growth, dispersion, and resilience, on the USG’s increased use of surveillance drones outside of “hot war zones,” on the USG possibly
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Really stunning.
Hat tip: Albert Lukban
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On March 8, 2011, Saeed Bakhouch, an Algerian GTMO detainee also known as Razak Ali, noted an appeal of the District Court’s January 2011 denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Oral argumen...
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Today, the Brookings Institution released a lengthy paper my colleague Daniel Byman and I have been working on for some time, entitled "Tools and Tradeoffs: Confronting U.S. Citizen Terrorist Suspects Ab...
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Let’s begin with the news everyone’s ga-ga about: The Royal Baby has arrived! Just kidding. We don’t do that here. Chris Kelly, writer for SNL and The Onion, said it best:
The Royal Baby already said his...
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One thing that struck me about the run up to the recent nomination for FBI Director (and the earlier nomination process for Secretary of State): the lack of public dialogue about the challenges the burea...
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There are at least three noteworthy elements in the WP’s story this morning about intelligence committee “approval” of “CIA weapons shipments to opposition fighters in Syria.”
First is the fact that the...
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We're a little late to the party on this one, but Ben and fellow Brookings scholar Daniel Byman will discuss their lengthy report "Tools and Tradeoffs: Confronting U.S. Citizen Terrorist Suspects Abroad"...
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In his widely discussed May 23 speech at the National Defense University, President Obama acknowledged that “much of the criticism about drone strikes---at home and abroad---understandably centers on rep...
