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[Update: Mary replies to this post here.]
Ben's commentary on Mary Dudziak's NYT piece has generated this reply from Mary, in which she raises several interesting questions. As a general proposition, I...
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In breaking news, the Washington Post reports that authorities have arrested a Moroccan gentleman by the name of Amine el-Khalifi for planning a suicide bombing on the U.S. Capitol. Undercover FBI agents...
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Ritika linked yesterday to this New York Times oped by USC law professor Mary Dudziak, which opens:
THE defense secretary, Leon E. Panetta, recently announced that America hoped to end its combat mission...
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The Senate is currently holding hearings on the upcoming cybersecurity bill. You can watch the live feed here.
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It's nice to know that someone is reading these posts. I had a pleasant email from one of the Senior Democratic Aides who I spoke of in my last post. He offered the following, which I quote with his pe...
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Two days ago, I wrote about the “great cybersecurity carve out.” My point was that the definition of critical cyber infrastructure in the newly-introduced Senate cybersecurity bill seemed to have an imp...
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Let's begin with Iranians blowing things up: Three Iranians were detained in Bangkok yesterday after a series of bombs went off in the heart of the city. Thai officials assert that the bombs were intende...
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I hope it is not snarkish to hope that by the time I hit "publish" on this post, the director of the National Constitution Center's "Peter Jennings Project," Todd Brewster, will have corrected his articl...
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In a recent ABC News/Washington Post poll, seventy percent of respondents (including a majority of self-identified liberal Democrats) said they approve of keeping open the Guantanamo Bay detention facili...
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Let's start with the cybersecurity legislative news: As we mentioned yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has introduced the Senate's cybersecurity bill, S. 2105. Read Paul Rosenzweig's analysis ...
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Over at the Document Exploitation blog, Douglas Cox of the CUNY Law School has this very interesting post on redactions in the Alsabri Guantanamo habeas case--which was decided at the District Court leve...
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Samuel Rascoff, a law professor at NYU, has a fascinating new article out in the Stanford Law Review entitled, "Establishing Official Islam? The Law and Strategy of Counter-Radicalization." As someone wh...
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The Defense Department today announced that military commission charges have been sworn against Majid Khan, a Pakistani detainee at Guantanamo who used to live in the United States:
DOD Announces Charge...
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Well, the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 is now available for Senate consideration. A link to the text of the bill can be found here for download. Hearings will be held this Thursday. Weighing in at 205 pa...
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According to the AP, lawyers for underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab say that a mandatory life sentence in his case is "unconstitutional" because there were no casualties--other than Abdulmutallab...
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The text of S. 2105, the Cybersecurity Act of 2012, is now available. In preliminary coverage of the legislation, the Hill reports that the bill "abandons proposals that would give the president emergenc...
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As Leroy Jetson’s dog Astro used to say: “ruh roh.”
The most critical (no pun intended) portion of the soon-to-be-introduced (and newly renamed) Lieberman-Collins-Rockefeller-Carper (“LCRC”) cybersecuri...
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The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has scheduled a hearing on the "Cybersecurity Act of 2012" for Thursday, February 16 at 2:30PM. It will be webcast live here.
Those testif...
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There's a lot of news to catch up on today.
Schiphol airport in Amsterdam has been partially evacuated because of a bomb threat.
