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Michael J. Glennon, of Tufts University, has an important new piece out entitled "The Dark Future of Cybersecurity Regulation." It's a realistic view, in my judgement, of the prospects of international ...
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Senator Robert Wicker, Republican of Mississippi, and President Obama were sent envelopes that tested positive for ricin---a known toxin.
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That's the word on the street, the military judge having granted the defense's request for a continuance.
In seeking a delay, lawyers for the five defendants had expressed concerns about information tec...
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This morning's opinion in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum concludes that the presumption against extraterritoriality applies to claims brought under the Alien Tort Statute ("ATS"), and that nothing in th...
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It was a busy day on the House side in Cyber. The House Rules Committee reported out the Cybersecurity Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act for consideration on the House floor tomorrow. Meanwhile t...
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You’ve all, I’m sure, heard more than you want to about yesterday’s terrorist attack at Boston marathon---given the paucity of real information available about it---so I’m not going to try to round up al...
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The Attorney General's statement is posted here.
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The Constitution Project has released the results of its Task Force on Detainee Treatment in the form of this 577-page report---which concludes that “it is indisputable that the United States engaged in ...
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For those who wish to understand the organizational boundaries of the AUMF these days, Lashkar-e-Taiba provides an interesting and important test case. Grist for the mill is found in this piece in Long ...
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Last week a group of major human rights NGOs sent this letter to the President on U.S. targeted killing practices. It calls on the Obama administration to “publicly disclose key targeted killing standar...
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What do the Governments of Saudi Arabia and Sri Lanka and former Attorneys General William Barr, Ed Meese, and Dick Thornburgh have in common?
Answer: They all believe that the Supreme Court should gr...
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That's the gist of this report, filed earlier today by Politico's Josh Gerstein:
A federal judge declined Monday to take action on behalf of a hunger-striking prisoner at Guantanamo Bay whose attorneys s...
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Twitter has much of the best, most accurate, fastest information on the situation in Boston right now. It also has a lot of crazed garbage. We’ve created the following feed composed entirely of people an...
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As readers of this blog know, many in the US have begun to debate the legal and policy questions surrounding private sector “hack back,” also sometimes known as “active defenses.” Of course to some of u...
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Guantanamo detainees' hunger strike took a violent turn over the weekend, with prison guards using force in order to subdue the detainees.
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Over at the CQ Weekly, Tim Starks has written a mini-profile of Lawfare. It opens (warning: paywall):
When the House Judiciary Committee summoned experts in February to testify about the legality of dron...
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Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel, a detainee at Guantánamo Bay, has this oped in the New York Times, told through his lawyers:
ONE man here weighs just 77 pounds. Another, 98. Last thing I knew, I weighed 132...
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As America continues to consider legislation for improving cybersecurity, the actions of other Western nations may (or may not) be of influence and interest. I recently received a management summary of ...
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Last Thursday and Friday, the Senate and House respectively passed legislation providing that Sections 8 and 11 of the STOCK Act, which would have required publication on the Internet of the financial di...
