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I have largely suspended my campaign of fact-checking New York Times editorials, but this one is too good to pass up. In his opinion the other day on counsel access issues at Guantanamo, Judge Royce Lamb...
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The State Department has announced that it will, at long last, designate the Haqqani Network as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. Apart from the rhetorical value of the designation, the main consequence...
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Let's begin with the moment for which we've all been waiting with baited breath: the Obama administration's official decision on the Haqqani network. Drumroll, please. . . . They're bad guys.
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On September 4, Judge Naomi Buchwald of the Southern District of New York dismissed an Alien Tort Statute suit against President Mahinda Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka, on the basis of a Suggestion of Immunity f...
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Shane Harris at Washingtonian has this snarky little piece about what Mark Owen aka the "squealing SEAL" can do to stay out of prison---since the Pentagon has decided that the book does, in fact, reveal ...
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Chief Judge Royce Lamberth's order is here.
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As Ben mentioned this morning, big news on the enhanced interrogation front.
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Speaking of reports I haven’t yet read, the Open Society Foundations has just released a report entitled “Remaking Bagram: The Creation of an Afghan Internment Regime and the Divide Over U.S. Detention P...
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To the list of upcoming habeas cases in the court of appeals, add these: first, Khairkhwa v. Obama, which is set for argument on October 5th; and second, Hussain v.
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Amy Zegart of the Hoover Institution, author of several terrific books on intelligence, now has a regular column on intelligence matters at Foreign Policy that should be of great interest to Lawfare read...
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The New York Times has the story here about this new Human Rights Watch report concerning the handling of Libyan detainees transferred to Libyan custody after 2004. I haven't read the report yet--by Laur...
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The New York Times has this piece about continuing U.S.
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In a series of posts (here, here, and here) fellow Lawfare blogger John Bellinger has written about the difficulties with the STOCK Act -- what the Washington Post calls a "Laughing Stock." Readers will...
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This from Secretary Clinton in China:
I also raised the growing threat of cyber attacks that are occurring on an increasing basis. Both the United States and China are victims of cyber attacks. Intellect...
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It’s now public—as required by the 2012 Intelligence Authorization Act.
Here’s the chart:
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Remember Suleiman v. Obama? That's the habeas case in which the petitioner had claimed, among other things, that he could not be detained because he was merely a Taliban functionary who never took up ar...
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It's official: the Pentagon said yesterday that Matt Bissonnette's book did reveal "sensitive and classified" information, and Rear Adm.
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Yesterday the D.C. Circuit issued its decision in United States v.
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The D.C.
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Cambridge University Press has made this cache of terrorism articles from its international relations journals available for free--until October 6. Check 'em out.