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It's all depressing today, I'm afraid.
Lots of trouble brewing on the Afghanistan front, for starters. The New York Times reports that President Karzai called for U.S.
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Raff already posted earlier about some of the amicus briefs filed today (or earlier) in the al-Bahlul case (the "other" military commission appeal currently pending in the D.C. Circuit).
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The American Civil Liberties Union has filed its opening brief in its appeal of the District Court of the District of Columbia's granting of a motion for summary judgment for the Central Intelligence Age...
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Two new amicus briefs have been filed in Bahlul v. United States in the D.C. Circuit Court recently. The first is a brief on behalf of international law professors (including our own Steve Vladeck). Its ...
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A few months ago, New York University hosted a public debate on targeted killings among three of its prominent faculty members. The discussion, which is now available on video, involved Philip Alston, t...
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On the heels of a meeting between U.S. and Pakistan officials, Pakistan has announced that it will no longer permit the United States to use its airspace for drone attacks. Bloomberg's Indira A.R.
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Cybersecurity maven Dan Geer and former Treasury Department official Brock Dahl write about gaps and excesses in pending cybersecurity legislation:
“For years now, there has been mounting evidence that m...
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Lots of developments in the case of the rogue soldier who massacred 24 Afghan civilians. Leon Panetta arrived in Afghanistan today to quell tensions--and was met with an Afghan national trying to crash a...
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Raffaela linked to this the other day, but I only now just got around to reading it. Lyle Denniston at SCOTUSblog has an interesting piece on the various cert petitions in Guantanamo cases now pending be...
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Peter Margulies, professor at Roger Williams University school of law and FOL ("Friend of Lawfare") who occasionally contributes commentary to this blog, has a new paper up at SSRN: "Valor's Vices: Aga...
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The Associated Press reports that Jose Pimental, the man accused of attempting to use a pipe bomb in an attack in New York City, is to be arraigned today in Manhattan.
Militants attacked an Afghan gover...
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Kevin Jon Heller at Opinio Juris responds to Peter Berkowitz’s critique of Bruce Ackerman’s argument that a self-defensive attack on Iran would be unlawful. Heller maintains that Berkowitz’s response is...
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The opinion is here.
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No commentary necessary:
Could The Use Of Flying Death Robots Be Hurting America's Reputation Worldwide?
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That exciting fact comes to me thanks to Jacob Sternberger, who last year won the Lawfare competition to parody the New York Times editorial on the Al Aulaqi strike. Sternberger, a senior at Dickinson Co...
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Tomorrow the Senate Judiciary Committee will be holding a hearing on the relationship between the Freedom of Information Act, and the protection of critical infrastructure. One aspect of the hearing wi...
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Reviewed by Benjamin Kleinerman
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Guess what? Jack has a new book out.
You probably already knew that, but in case you didn't, it's called Power and Constraint: The Accountable Presidency after 9/11. If you haven't already scored a copy...
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Over the weekend, a U.S. soldier killed at least 16 Afghan civilians. The Taliban is vowing revenge, says NPR.
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Some court documents came in over the weekend: Salim Ahmed Hamdan has filed his reply brief in his appeal in the D.C. Circuit Court. You can read it in full here. The summary of the argument is excerpted...
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