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Amidst all the hubbub earlier this week, we neglected to note the filing of a new cert. petition in a Guantánamo habeas case--in Obaydullah v. Obama, filed in the Supreme Court on Tuesday. Our coverage o...
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I’ll do my best not to mention the “S-word” in my roundup today.
Yesterday, Bradley did indeed plead guilty to 10 of the charges leveled against him. The Guardian has the full text of his in-court state...
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The following guest post is the latest in a series comprising a debate as to whether LOAC requires an attempt to capture rather than a first-resort to lethal force in some circumstances. The debate invo...
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NSA General Counsel Rajesh De gave the following address at Georgetown Law School on Wednesday:
Remarks of
Rajesh De, General Counsel, National Security Agency
Georgetown Law School, February 27, 2013
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Congratulations to Duke Law School's Charlie Dunlap, who as executive director of the Center has organized another outstanding LENS conference. You can follow it live streaming from the link at the webp...
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Over at Washingtonian's new Dead Drop blog, Shane Harris has this fascinating piece, mining a just-released book for new information about the NSA's warrantless wiretapping activities.
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In other habeas news, detainee Obaydullah has noted his appeal to the D.C.
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Remember the Guantanamo detention case of Hentif v.
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The Wall Street Journal reports on news coming from China’s Ministry of Defense that it and another military website have been hacked on average 144,000 times a month last year.
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Over at at the Emptywheel blog, Ms. Wheel colorfully asks of yesterday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing: “Boy, what fucking idiots run DOJ (and, presumably, the Obama Administration generally)”? She g...
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While some other stuff was going on yesterday, my friend Lindsay Harrison at Jenner & Block and I filed an amicus brief on behalf of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and in support of...
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Over at Slate, Torie Bosch has an interview with a cyborg about, well, cyborg rights. It's very interesting, and it goes to an issue I've been thinking about for a while. We think of cyborgs as inherentl...
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Over at Forbes.com, Greg McNeal takes a break from guest blogging for Lawfare to body slam Human Rights Watch over its "killer robots" campaign.
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The thing kind of speaks for itself:
Rep. Louie Gohmert: Thank you Mr. Chairman, and this is an exceedingly important topic. We do appreciate your being here today. Obviously the Justice Department folks...
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Over at Rolling Stone, John Knefel pans the House Judiciary Committee hearing today for being too Lawfare-heavy:
The House Judiciary Committee held a full member hearing today on when it is acceptable fo...
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As I’m sure you’re all aware, Chuck Hagel was confirmed by the Senate yesterday, 58 to 41, to be Secretary of Defense. He was sworn in today, and has to immediately turn to the $46 billion in spending cu...
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Not all news today is the secret meeting of the Lawfare cabal in plain sight - at the House Judiciary Committee hearing on drones and targeted killing. There is, for example, the opinion just issued in ...
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Watch the video of this morning's House Committee on the Judiciary right here. Read the witnesses' testimonies here.
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In writing my testimony for today’s House Judiciary Committee hearing on drones and targeted killing of U.S. citizens overseas, I found myself writing a more complete explication of the essential legal r...
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