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Over at Opinio Juris, Kevin Jon Heller has a piece commenting on Glenn Greenwald's and my recent discussion of the difference between the accidental killing of children with drones and the intentional ki...
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On Thursday, lawyers for Abd Al Rahim Hussein Al-Nashiri filed their reply brief in Al-Nashiri v. MacDonald, a civil case now pending before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Al-...
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From the vanguard of the revolution, reports Forbes, comes this very important effort to prevent our robot overlords from spying on us:
The city of Berkeley, Calif., this week took the first steps toward...
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Gabor Rona of Human Rights First writes in with the following comments on Eric Posner's Slate article, to which I linked the other day:
Eric Posner's dismissal of "the human rights regime" would come as ...
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Senators John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and Kelly Ayotte---who jointly filed an amicus brief in the Hedges appeal---are asking for argument time in the coming Second Circuit oral argument.
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The Washington Post has an excellent article by Sudarsan Raghavan on civilian casualties in drone strikes in Yemen and the ways in which the Yemeni government tries to mask the U.S. role in these strikes...
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Over at Slate, Eric Posner has a very interesting essay defending the Senate's recent rejection of the disabilities rights treaty—although rejecting the reasons for rejection proffered by the senators wh...
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Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta delivered a wide-ranging address on December 18, 2012 at the National Press Club in Washington DC on the United States' overall national security strategy. The speech...
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On Friday, a British court rejected a closely watched civil suit by the son of man killed in a 2011 drone strike in Pakistan that requests a judicial declaration that British intelligence officials may b...
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At this season every year, I think of the story of the Christmas truce of 1914 in the trenches of the Western Front. With warm wishes to all of of Lawfare's readers and especial thanks to those of our r...
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So what exactly is in the NDAA conference report that is prompting the agitation for a presidential veto? Here is a quick and dirty summary of "Subtitle D---Counterterrorism"---along with an explanation ...
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The Secretary of Defense has released the attached memo on the implications of the fiscal cliff and sequestration on the Department of Defense. Read it here.
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Headlines and Commentary is going on vacation for a week. There's simply too much homemade lasagne to eat and too many presents to wrap. We’ll be back after New Year’s---and will be using the snazzy Lawf...
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The government has filed its reply brief in Hedges.
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Another noteworthy development in the conference version of the NDAA is section 1025. Think of this as a new direction in the congressionalization of detention operations in Afghanistan.
What do I mean...
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Today was the big Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the Benghazi attack. You can watch it on C-SPAN here.
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Here's the story from Spencer Ackerman of Wired Danger Room.
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As Bobby has already noted the conference report on the NDAA was filed last night. Some readers may recall that I was concerned about section 936 of the Senate version of the bill -- a provision that re...
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As Bobby noted last night, the NDAA conference report has been filed, and yes, the Feinstein amendment was dropped. Here's Politico's Josh Gerstein and Jeremy Herb and Carlo Munoz of The Hill.
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