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Editors Note from Bobby Chesney: Throughout the month of September, a group of blogs including Lawfare, InterCross (the blog of the ICRC), and EJIL:Talk! (the blog of the European Journal of Internationa...
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General John Allen is stepping down as the White House’s counter-ISIS czar, Bloomberg tells us. The White House will likely struggle to find a replacement for the general, who will reportedly leave his p...
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Have a look at this interesting, conditional cross-petition filed last week by attorneys for Aaron Graham—one of two defendants in United States v. Graham.
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Likely you've heard: The United States last week petitioned for the full Fourth Circuit to rehear United States v. Graham and Jordan. Earlier in the closely-watched case, a panel of the Fourth Circuit h...
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Proceedings resume this morning at Guantanamo, in the military commissions case of United States v. Abd al Hadi al Iraqi. We won't be in the house, but plan afterwards to post a read-out on today's even...
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I normally don't write about the substance of New York Times editorials, prefering to keep my role pure as the Grey Lady's unofficial—and lamentably unpaid—fact-checker on national security legal matters...
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As the Kremlin ramps up its involvement in Syria, world leaders are taking a careful look at Russia’s intentions and strategy in the country. Speaking on Friday, U.S.
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No one could miss the Washington Post story on the options the Obama administration is considering regarding cryptography. They are, in varying degrees, in favor of keeping the status quo ante.
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Some entries on the cyber warfare front:
US and China Seek Cyber Arms Deal. "The United States and China are negotiating what could become the first arms control accord for cyberspace, embracing a commi...
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As Ben noted last Friday, it seems clear to me that Apple (and the rest of industry) has won the encryption debate.
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David Sanger reported over the weekend that “the United States and China are negotiating what could become the first arms control accord for cyberspace, embracing a commitment by each country that it wil...
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As the Arab Spring went sour, country after country in the Middle East went from protest and nascent democracy to strife and even civil war. Yet one part of the region seemed relatively untouched: the Pa...
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Last week, Ben attended a symposium at the Pentagon on the rise of so-called “hybrid conflicts,” where professionals from around the national security establishment attempted to define the idea and to de...
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With all of the recent concern over the Obama administration’s attempts to train and equip Syrian rebels Jack and Wells both attempted to answer the question of how Article II of the Constitution could a...
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Secretary of State John Kerry announced that the United States is prepared to engage in discussion with Russia over the conflict in Syria, the New York Times reports. According to Secretary Kerry, the in...
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The Washington Post reported Wednesday that:
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I have a paper coming out in a few weeks on Zivotofsky II but want to raise an issue in the case here that I excluded from that paper. The issue is the Vesting Clause as a residual source of presidentia...
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In a few weeks, on October 3, I’ll be attending the Duke-Yale Foreign Relations Law Roundtable in Durham. This year’s topic is President Obama’s War Powers Legacy:
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Following German and Austrian calls for a summit to address the refugee crisis, European Council President Donald Tusk announced plans to hold another emergency meeting to find an acceptable solution to ...
