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Over at the Cato Institute's Cato@Liberty blog, Julian Sanchez responds to the recent guest post by former Justice Department official Carrie Cordero on FISA Amendments Act reauthorization. Writes Sanche...
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No, not Latif the Guantanamo habeas case. This Latif is a recent 9th Circuit decision which I had missed until Shirin Sinnar of Stanford Law School sent me the following the other day:
In a little notice...
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That's the word from the Senate -- Majority Leader Harry Reid has filed for cloture to conclude the debate on the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 -- debate that began in earnest earlier today. In addition, he...
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The plaintiffs have filed their reply in support of their request for a permanent injunction in the case of Hedges v. Obama.
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Dan Byman, Director of Research at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings, has a new paper out entitled “Breaking the Bonds between Al Qaeda and its Affiliate Organizations.” The paper, acc...
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As a fellow Arlingtonian and a reasonably tech-savvy person, I join Air Force General Counsel Charles Blanchard in taking issue with the categorization of Arlingtonians by our friends in the Bay Area as ...
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Senator Leahy has an proposed Cybercrime Amendment to S3414 that would, effectively, substantially enhance penalties for cyber crime and impose mandatory minimum sentences. There are plenty of reasons t...
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I just received the following email from Air Force General Counsel Charles A. Blanchard in response to my correspondent from San Francisco, who had hypothesized that West Coast Lawfare readers might be t...
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I just received the following email from a loyal reader in the Bay Area complaining about the manner in which Google Analytics counts readers: I write in the spirit of the age-old outraged reader--th...
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Here’s a fun—and strangely evocative—factoid about Lawfare’s readership. Over this site’s nearly two years of existence, our readership has been heavily concentrated in Washington DC. Seventeen percent...
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Rajiv Chandrasekaran over at the Washington Post has this breaking news on the just-released report by the inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction.
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This weekend, I both posted an excellent guest post from Geoffrey Corn on civilian harm mitigation and wrote a musing post myself about martial arts and LOAC---which offered an excellent excuse to publis...
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Ah ...
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Geoffrey S.
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My correspondent (and friend) Gus Coldebella, wrote in the other day with a response to an earlier post of mine, in which he wondered what the meaning of section 706(d) of the Lieberman-Collins bill is. ...
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The other day, I posted an email from Major John Harwood of the U.S. Air Force in connection with the coming Lawfare Drone Smackdown. It reads in relevant part:
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Over at Forbes.com, Pepperdine law professor Gregory McNeal has this response to the critique I linked to the other day by Jonathan Horowitz of the Army's new manual on preventing harm to civilians.
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I’ll continue in the same vein as Raffaela’s focus yesterday on everything cyber. The New York Times reports that Gen. Keith B. Alexander, head of the NSA and the U.S.
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We have two new entrants in the Smackdown—and we have a judge.
Shane Harris---senior editor of Washingtonian magazine and author of this book about surveillance and this paper on the “Human-Free Future ...
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Wells posted yesterday the government's filing on the question of continued access to counsel for Guantanamo detainees who have lost their habeas cases. I have now read through the motion, and I have to ...
