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Lots of exciting stuff going on at the Naval War College these days, in keeping with NWC's long tradition of engagement with cutting edge legal issues. Kudos to Prof. Mike Schmitt (whom I am proud to no...
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According to Google Analytics, we are closing in fast on our one millionth visit and our half-millionth unique visitor.
As to this hour:
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That means, if traffic...
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This is a rather interesting 20 minutes of radio.
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Those following the Stuxnet/Flame story will be interested in this piece that just went up on the Washington Post website. In a sequel to David Sanger's account attributing Stuxnet to an American-Israel...
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Judge James Pohl yesterday filed this amended docketing order in the military commission case of United States v.
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As Raffaela noted earlier today, there appears to be some momentum gaining for the proposed Whitehouse-Kyle compromise legislation on cybersecurity -- at least if a letter from Senators Snowe and Warner ...
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Senators Olympia Snowe and Mark Warner have written a letter to Senate leaders urging them to move a compromise cybersecurity bill. Brendan Sasso of The Hill tells us that the letter appears to be a "nod...
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Now available: the 9/11 defendants' joint reply to the "Government's Response to Motion to Cease Psychological Dislocation Techniques And Denial of Detainees' Right to Dress in the Clothes of Their Own C...
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A few days ago, the New York Times editorial page made a remarkable claim: "In the 19 [Guantanamo habeas] appeals [the D.C. Circuit] has decided, the court has never allowed a prisoner to prevail." As I ...
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One of the more obscure habeas cases of the last few years has been El Falesteny v. Obama. The case's key documents were sealed, both on appeal to the D.C.
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Maj. Gen. Salim Ali Qatn, a Yemeni senior commander, was assassinated in a suicide bombing attack this morning. Laura Kasinof in the New York Times has the story.
Late on Friday came the announcement th...
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As Paul noted, and many news outlets have reported, the Department of Homeland Security yesterday issued criteria regarding the enforcement of immigration statutes in certain cases. Now Rep.
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Today's report includes the boilerplate-for-such-documents "consistent with the War Powers Resolution" phrase. It also includes the excerpt below regarding counterterrorism efforts in Yemen and Somalia:...
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Shane Harris at Washingtonian writes on the government's leak investigations, arguing that the government "is pursuing leaks, and leakers, because it can." Meanwhile, CNN reports on Senator John McCain's...
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Ken posted as a Reading sometime back Ashley Deek's new article in the Virginia Journal of International Law, ‘Unwilling or Unable’: Toward an Normative Framework for Extra-Territorial Self-Defense.
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The following is the speech I gave at the MILOPS conference in Singapore on Monday.
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The Department of Homeland Security today announced a new policy on immigration enforcement. In summary the policy will allow the exercise of discretion by the Executive Branch to defer action, on a spe...
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This is the first of three speeches I recorded in Singapore at the Pacific Command's Military Operations and Law Conference. I don't normally post podcasts in rapid succession, but I will be releasing th...
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You'll recall that three 9/11 defendants earlier responded to Judge Pohl's inquiry regarding separate trials for each of the five accused.
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I actually don't have much to say, now that it's here, on the New York Times editorial on the detention case cert denials.
