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Charlie Savage has a story today about how the Obama administration, stymied in Congress and seeking ways to accomplish policy goals, has “increasingly in recent months . . . been seeking ways to act wit...
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Professor Jonathan Hafetz (Seton Hall) writes in with the following response to my critique of the qualified immunity ruling in Hamad v. Gates. My thoughts in reply appear at the bottom. Jonathan write...
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David Cole and Peter Margulies both have more to say on the Tarek Mehanna case. Their exchange convinces me that the merits of this First Amendment case are enormously fact-dependent.
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Britain is announcing what it terms "historic reforms" to the European Court of Human Rights. According to the Secretary of State for Justice, Kenneth Clarke,
Taken together, these changes should mean fe...
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Peter Margulies of Roger Williams University School of Law writes in with the following response to David Cole's recent article on the Tarek Mehanna case:
While David Cole’s passionate defense of the Fir...
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Ken and Ben have recently commented on the national security speeches of Obama Administration officials, including most recently the remarks of CIA General Counsel Stephen Preston. As a former Bush Admi...
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So, now that Ben, Jack, and Bobby have officially given me a license to blog more broadly, I wanted to expand my attention (and that of Lawfare readers) to important legal issues involving homeland secur...
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On Wednesday the House Homeland Security Committee marked up the Lungren cybersecurity proposal. The details are reported here and are difficult to piece together. In so far as one can tell, the Chairm...
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As Bobby noted yesterday, two of the last remaining Guantanamo Uighurs will find a new home in El Salvador. Here are the New York Times and Associated Press stories.
Lots of U.K.
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Further to my post from last Thursday on the Ex Post Facto Clause issue in the Nashiri prosecution, Haridimos Thravalos has sent in a response, which I've posted in its entirety below the fold.
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UCLA Professor John Villasenor and I have this oped coming out in tomorrow's Washington Post responding to calls for the Federal Aviation Administration to take action to protect privacy in the context i...
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Georgetown law professor David Cole has this disturbing article in the New York Review of Books Blog on the Tarek Mehanna case. I have not followed this case carefully in the district court, but this art...
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So Charlie Savage is reporting over at the New York Times:
The transfer [of the two Uighurs] leaves 169 detainees at the prison in Cuba, but the Obama administration notified Congress several days ago th...
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Earlier this month, the Federalist Society held a symposium on national security in Washington at the D.C. office of Jones Day.
Video from the sessions is now available.
Here is panel #1--on detention,...
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... El Salvador. [I've just changed the title to reflect the fact that other Uighur detainees still remain at GTMO]. From DOD's press release:
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
No. 291-12
April 19, 2012
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Toomas Hendrik Ilves is the President of Estonia, a small nation (population about 1.3 million) and also one of the most wired and digitally advanced nations in the world. Ilves was President of Estonia...
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Over the past several weeks, I’ve written a number of blogs about the substance of the cybersecurity bills pending before Congress. As the House moves to consider cyber legislation next week and as the ...
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Greg Miller at the Washington Post reports on the CIA's efforts to expand its drone campaign in Yemen. The agency requests that it be permitted to strike based solely on intelligence indicating suspiciou...
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Several readers have made the good suggestion of creating a list of the "formal" or even (arguably, meaning in the opinion of the Readings Editor) "canonical" statements of the Obama administration regar...
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Lots of Najibullah Zazi news for your reading pleasure today. The New York Times reports that Zazi testified at the trial of his alleged co-conspirator Adis Medunjanin, who helped him come up with the pl...
