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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...
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While ex-Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf was busy admitting on CNN that he approved at least some U.S. drone strikes on Pakistani territory during his time in office, the chief judge of Peshawar’s H...
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Detainees and guards clashed violently early yesterday morning at Guantánamo Bay.
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The subject of lethal autonomous weapons has been one of considerable debate on this site---following a
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John Villasenor has new law review article out taking a systematic look at drones and privacy. Entitled "Observations from Above: Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Privacy" and published in the Harvard Journ...
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All of Lawfare, that is, except for Today's Headlines and Commentary, as it seems silly to round up what is itself a roundup.
Let's start with detention, Guantanamo, habeas, and related matters: Wells ...
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I'm happy to announce a new experimental feature on Lawfare--a weekly digest of our posts. I have received a lot of complaints in recent months that during heavy-blogging weeks, Lawfare's feed can be ove...
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Charlie Savage of the New York Times shares our disappointment that the Al Nashiri military commission hearings slated for next week have been postponed.
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Now available in redacted form: the government's opposition brief and the defendant's reply in United States v. Ghailani, a criminal case arising from the 1998 bombing of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanz...
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I wonder what Ben Emmerson was thinking when he watched CNN this evening. Emmerson, the UN Special Rapporteur on Counterterrorism and Human Rights who is conducting an investigation into the legality of ...
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Let's start with big news in the Bradley Manning case. The presiding military judge, Colonel Denise Lind, ruled that in order to convict Manning on Espionage Act charges, the prosecution must show that ...
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The lawyers' reason is twofold, apparently: first, a possible lapse in the security of computer networks operated by military commission defense counsel; and second, the disclosure of privileged defense ...
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