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The 10th anniversary of September 11 is, as everyone knows, coming up soon, and it promises a veritable orgy of selective memory. America's debate over law and security is, in general, characterized by a...
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The New York Times is reporting that the CIA has demanded "extensive cuts from the memoir of a former F.B.I. agent who spent years near the center of the battle against Al Qaeda." Ali Soufan has been a v...
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Thomas Drake, the former NSA employee who was charged with leaking classified information, in a case that collapsed last month, has this oped in the Washington Post today. Money quote:
From 2001 through ...
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The New York Time's Charlie Savage has obtained a copy of former Vice President Cheney's forthcoming memoir. Not a lot in his story about the book that will surprise on matters of interest to readers of ...
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I just had a meeting with a thoughtful European journalist who was working on a September 11 10th anniversary feature. Much to my surprise, she did not want to talk about Guantanamo, or interrogation, or...
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Matt Dahl is a 2009 graduate of the University of Richmond School of Law who works on legal and policy issues for a cybersecurity company in Virginia. We are pleased to welcome his guest post, which dis...
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Another interesting legal issue touched upon in Joby Warrick's The Triple Agent concerns the difficulty of defining the set of groups or networks against which force lawfully may be used. This issue has...
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The AP's Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman have a long story out today, focused on the NYPD's Intelligence Division & Counter-Terrorism Bureau. The story paints NYPD as having developed an unchecked intellig...
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This should be of interest to a great many Lawfare readers:
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In November 2009, the ACLU brought a suit on behalf of an American citizen--Amir Meshal--against two FBI agents and two unnamed officials, alleging the following: that he went to Somalia in 2006, that he...
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In prior posts such as this one, I've noted that the United States eventually will transfer control over the Detention Center in Parwan to Afghan authorities. The most recent goal for that transfer was ...
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The discussions of drone strike decision-making in Warrick's The Triple Agent sheds light on the proportionality debate in several respects.
First, the book is shot through with references to the conce...
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Joby Warrick (of the Washington Post) provides a number of fascinating nuggets regarding CIA activities in Pakistan in his just-published book The Triple Agent: The al-Qaeda Mole Who Infiltrated the CIA...
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Stuff.co.nz, a New Zealand news web site, usefully informs us that:
It's not quite corporal punishment, but Wellington [New Zealand] High School pupils have had a first-hand taste of Guantanamo Bay.
Thr...
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Yesterday the Justice Department filed a memorandum (h/t Charlie Savage) in support of its motion to dismiss the lawsuit by ten members of Congress against President Obama over the Libya operation. The ...
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Stepping out of his persona as a Guantanamo habeas lawyer, David Remes writes in with the following comments in response to my recent post on fears that Al Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula is working on ...
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Esquire magazine has this lengthy feature on Guantanamo detainee and convicted war criminal Noor Uthman Muhammad. It's a sympathetic account, one that treats Uthman chiefly as a victim. But it contains e...
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The Congressional Research Service's Charles Doyle reviews proposals in the 112th Congress to amend National Security Letter authority in this report.
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I spent the other day at the ruined Roman city of Ephesus, on the Aegean Coast of what is now Turkey. Ephesus, unlike a great many other ancient cities, was not sacked or destroyed in war or built upon b...
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Benjamin Friedman has an interesting and thoughtful piece at the National Interest this afternoon, commenting on Dennis Blair's recent criticism of the current approach to drone strikes in Pakistan. One...
