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Published by University of Kansas Press (2012)
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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I have a new book out today: Power and Constraint: The Accountable Presidency after 9/11. It argues that constitutional checks and balances deeply constrain the national security presidency, and that th...
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The more I think about Attorney General Holder's defense of targeted killings in his speech @ Northwestern last Monday--and the various reactions thereto--the more confused I become. To be sure, this con...
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I recently noted Peter Berkowitz’s short piece on the legality of a military action against Iran. Bruce Ackerman subsequently argued that such a strike “would be a violation of both international law an...
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If you think it is disturbing to park next to a car with "Ebola" on the license plate, consider what I found parked behind my car last night when I came out from a restaurant:
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Well, it's the Sunday after the attorney general's address on targeted killing, so naturally, we awaken to a New York Times editorial blasting the speech:
President Obama, who came to office promising tr...
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The other day, I received the following email from Army Colonel Scott Malcom of United States Southern Command concerning an exchange of letters between the president of the American Bar Association and ...
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Last month, Charlie Savage of the New York Times ran this story about an Afghan detainee at Guantanamo Bay by the name of Obaydullah--whose lawyers have made up this handy fact sheet.
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See this event announcement from Georgetown University Law Center:
The National Security Law Society
Presents:
Defining "National Security" for the 21st Century
Monday, March 12 at 4pm in Gewirz Studen...
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Those who liked Lawfare graffiti (here and here) or my license plate (here and here) might find amusing this picture, taken on my street:
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As Ben noted this morning, the Times reports on the apparent U.S.-Afghanistan agreement on detainees.
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Note this passage in the coverage by the Times:
The United States will retain custody of non-Afghan prisoners, about 50 mostly Al Qaeda militants from Pakistan, Arab countries and Central Asia, the Amer...
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Does the announcement of a deal between Afghanistan and the United States regarding transfer of the DFIP (Detention Facility in Parwan) to Afghan control (see Ben's post below) herald a new Afghan positi...
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The New York Times is reporting:
The United States has agreed to hand over detainees to Afghan government control on a far more accelerated schedule than planned, a senior American official said on Frida...
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House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member and Sen. Mark Udall have proposed a brief bill that would make two significant changes to the NDAA's detention provisions. The bill, a fact sheet about which...
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Lt. Col. Darrel J. Vandeveld became a kind of cause celebre a few years back when he quit as a prosecutor in the military commission system over ethical concerns about the process, gave a declaration on ...
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Lots of coverage of FBI Director Robert Mueller's testimony before a House appropriations subcommittee yesterday. The New York Times describes Mueller's warning about "terrorist hacking." CNN's Security ...
