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A little-noticed district court opinion has expanded---at least at the margins---the universe of national security materials subject to FOIA requests.
We missed this opinion when it came out back in Aug...
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Yesterday's Special Operations Forces raid on an al-Shabaab facility in Baraawe, Somalia, and the near-simultaneous capture-and-rendition of an al Qaeda figure in Tripoli, raise a number of interesting l...
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At the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing the other day on NSA programs, I talked a lot about the importance and centrality of compliance procedures. And I quoted a quip by NSA's compliance chief, Joh...
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From The New York Times comes the second of the day's two breaking stories regarding recent and quite significant counterterrorism operations by the United States.
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That's the news from the New York Times.
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It is one of Cairo's rare windy fall days, and I am sitting with a group of friends, who are drinking juice and smoking shisha on multi-colored plastic chairs in an alley downtown. A poster of Nasser flu...
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I have noted how openly the United States has been leaking information about its covert action to support moderate Syrian rebels – from its inception through the supposed recent ramp-up. I notice via a
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TOR (a/k/a The Onion Router) is an anonymous, encrypted web browser bundle that, in theory, is intended to allow for untraceable activity in cyberspace. Like most tools, it is neutral in value, and thus...
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It was a prolific week for Lawfare.
This week we launched a new project with The New Republic, called Security States.
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We understand that Judge Royce Lamberth did so this afternoon---apparently in light of the United States's decision, earlier this week, to withdraw its opposition to Idris's petition. We don't yet have ...
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Check it out, Lawfarers.
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When it comes to detention and drone strikes, both critics and supporters of the status quo assume that abandoning the armed-conflict model would have not just diplomatic and legal effects but also a sig...
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Yesterday, one Miriam Carey struck a security barrier outside the White House and then sped across town to the grounds of the Capitol. A car chase ensued. She was shot and killed by law enforcement, an...
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From this FBI press release, we learn that Nizar Trabelsi, a Tunisian former professional soccer player-turned Al Qaeda member, has been extradited to the United States after spending the last twelve yea...
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Yesterday's Washington Post editorial discussed the pernicious effects of the shutdown on U.S. national security, and quoted John's post from last Sunday in it. The editorial opens:
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On Monday, Judge Dora Irizarry of the Eastern District of New York dismissed a suit brought under the Alien Tort Statute and the Antiterrorism Act against two former Directors of Pakistan's Inter-Service...
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The oral arguments in Monday’s D.C. Circuit en banc review of Ali Hamza al Bahlul’s military commission conspiracy conviction essentially came down to competing views of history. The government concedes ...
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I'm sick of talking about the government shutdown---and it's nowhere near over yet.
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