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I only just noticed this new report by Mark Denbeaux, Jonathan Hafetz, and an extensive list of others at the Seton Hall University School of Law, entitled "No Hearing Habeas: D.C. Circuit Restricts Mean...
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When Paul says that General Alexander’s response to Senator McCain’s letter over pending cybersecurity legislation is “unpersuasive,” I cannot tell whether Paul found it unpersuasive or whether he is ref...
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The other day, David Rivkin and Cully Stimson had this oped in the Washington Post on the recently-passed Virginia law that seeks to prohibit state cooperation with detentions of American citizens under ...
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Yesterday, as Raff reported, General Keith Alexander (Cyber Command and NSA) wrote a letter to Senator McCain explaining his views and, implicitly supporting the Obama Administration's proposal for a reg...
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Lots more on the foiled bomb plot after news broke yesterday that the suicide bomber was our kind of terrorist--more interested in ratting out Al Qaeda than blowing himself up. Assuming the New York Time...
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According to iTunes, "We have not received enough ratings to display an average for [The Lawfare P]odcast." This seems like a problem that listeners who access the podcast through iTunes ought to fix.
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Now sooner did I complain about the lack of editorial response to John Brennan's speech on drones than the Washington Post has published this editorial on drone strikes in Yemen. The editorial goes on t...
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A great many thanks to everyone--and there were a lot of you--who sent me thoughtful comments, criticisms, and praise concerning our military commission coverage in response to my request of yesterday. H...
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[UPDATE 5/10/12: Whoops. Careful readers will note that the new bill omits the congressional-notification language from last year's bill...at least in the text of the statute, though not in the explanat...
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Peter Berkowitz of the Hoover Institution has a new book out, entitled Israel and the Struggle Over the International Laws of War. The book, which is very brief--more of a long essay, really--is an impas...
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Yeesh. Yesterday I noted that Chairman McKeon's NDAA draft includes a "Daqduq rule" -- i.e., a provision requiring the Defense Department to notify Congress before transferring certain detainees held at...
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Remember all that concern for our infrastructure that supporters of cybersecurity legislation have been mentioning in their pleas to Congress to get something done? Well it looks like computer networks ...
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Georgetown University law professor David Cole has this piece in the New York Review of Books blog. Cole argues:
In closing off yet another avenue of accountability for the wrongs US officials intentiona...
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It is surprising to me that neither the Washington Post nor the New York Times nor the Wall Street Journal has yet to run an editorial reacting to John Brennan’s extensive and thoughtful speech on drones...
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I received the list below (of "Significant Cyber Attacks" on Federal systems since 2004) from sources on Capitol Hill last week. After reading through it and checking the data, it seemed worth making th...
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In general, I have received very positive reader response to Lawfare's neurotically-detailed military commissions coverage over the past few months. But yesterday, the estimable Spencer Ackerman suggeste...
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HASC Chairman Buck McKeon today released a draft NDAA for FY '13, which will head to the full committee for markup on the 9th. The text of the bill as it currently stands is posted here, McKeon's announ...
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If Ben's and Wells's live-blogging of the 9/11 arraignment wasn't enough to satiate your undying hunger, here are a rash of news stories on the highlights of the trial: the New York Times here and here a...
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I only noticed this morning that New York Times Editorial Page Editor Andrew Rosenthal had this blog post in advance of the KSM arraignment--responding, in part, to my Washington Post oped of Friday:
Ben...
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Announcing the inaugural paper of the Lawfare Research Paper Series
