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As Ben noted this morning, the Times reports on the apparent U.S.-Afghanistan agreement on detainees.
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Note this passage in the coverage by the Times:
The United States will retain custody of non-Afghan prisoners, about 50 mostly Al Qaeda militants from Pakistan, Arab countries and Central Asia, the Amer...
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Does the announcement of a deal between Afghanistan and the United States regarding transfer of the DFIP (Detention Facility in Parwan) to Afghan control (see Ben's post below) herald a new Afghan positi...
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The New York Times is reporting:
The United States has agreed to hand over detainees to Afghan government control on a far more accelerated schedule than planned, a senior American official said on Frida...
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House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member and Sen. Mark Udall have proposed a brief bill that would make two significant changes to the NDAA's detention provisions. The bill, a fact sheet about which...
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Lt. Col. Darrel J. Vandeveld became a kind of cause celebre a few years back when he quit as a prosecutor in the military commission system over ethical concerns about the process, gave a declaration on ...
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Lots of coverage of FBI Director Robert Mueller's testimony before a House appropriations subcommittee yesterday. The New York Times describes Mueller's warning about "terrorist hacking." CNN's Security ...
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Peter Feaver has an insightful post at Shadow Government concerning yesterday's exchange between Secretary Panetta and Senator Sessions regarding the administration's position on whose authorization it m...
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The Associated Press reports that the deputy commander of the Pakistani Taliban has been fired for "allegedly holding peace talks with the government"--a practice that is definitely frowned upon in the o...
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In the ongoing debate over the use of lethal force against persons located outside Afghanistan, the suggestion is often made (both by supporters and critics of US government policies) that Afghanistan is...
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President Obama, at his press conference yesterday, in response to republican candidates’ hawkish calls for a more aggressive posture toward Iran:
Now, what’s said on the campaign trail -- those folks do...
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Okay, all you graphic designers out there: Lawfare needs a logo.
We have these three online locations--our Twitter feed (which you should follow), our Facebook Page (which you should "like"), and our po...
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Former NSC Legal Adviser Richard Klingler, now a partner at Sidley Austin, writes in with the following important observation in relation to Holder’s speech and my commentary thereon. He raises a really ...
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Lots of coverage of Attorney General Eric Holder's speech yesterday--Ben discusses today's Washington Post's editorial here; Bobby breaks down the speech's key passages here; John digs in here; and Steve...
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I join Ben's praise for the Attorney General's speech.
The Administration has done a good job in the speeches by Harold Koh, Jeh Johnson, John Brennan, and now the Attorney General in laying out a compr...
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One brief (but significant) point that thus far has gone largely unnoticed in the wide coverage of yesterday's speech by Attorney General Eric Holder is his invocation of the Supreme Court's Mathews v.
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Stephanie Blum, author of The Necessary Evil of Preventive Detention in the War on Terror and other stuff, writes in to question my recent post responding to Human Rights Watch and Human Rights First on ...
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What if, during a speech by the President, some demonstrators outside loudly protested the Administration’s targeted killing of suspected terrorists? Suppose also that one or two unwittingly had crossed ...
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Under the Intelligence Authorization Act, the DNI is required to release data on Guantanamo reengagement. He has now done so.
Here's the key table:
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