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I just finished watching the video of the Second Circuit's argument in ACLU v. Clapper, the challenge to Section 215. Here are a few impressions.
While I don't have a strong sense of how the court will...
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The National Security Agency's Anne Neuberger, the director of the NSA’s Commercial Solutions Center, gave this seminar recently at the Long Now Foundation. Full video is available at the web site. Here'...
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Breaking News: ISIS has released a video that shows the murder of American journalist Steven Sotloff, the New York Times reports. In a previous video of the murder of American James Foley, ISIS had threa...
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To the best of my knowledge, the U.S. government has not asserted that al Shabaab as a whole is an associated force of al Qaeda engaged in hostilities against the United States subject to the 2001 AUMF. ...
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You can watch the video of the argument in ACLU v. Clapper here. The argument goes almost two hours. C-SPAN did a nice job with the video, so it's a pleasure to watch. I hope to have some thoughts on the...
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That seems to be the sum and substance of the Second Circuit's ruling today.
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President Obama appears to be trying a new method to avoid the 60-day War Powers Resolution Clock for U.S. operations.
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On Tuesday, the Second Circuit will hear oral argument in ACLU v. Clapper, one of the cases challenging the Section 215 bulk telephony metadata program. The Second Circuit is reviewing Judge Pauley's dec...
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On Sunday, Russian President Vladimir Putin called for immediate talks on "the statehood" of southeastern Ukraine, a "vague and provocative turn of phrase," notes the New York Times, that comes only days...
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Editor's Note: The United States plans to draw down its military forces in Afghanistan at the end of this year, and for most Americans, this move will put the conflict behind us. One country, however, wi...
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As Lawfare readers may have seen from press reports, on Thursday, SDNY Judge Shira Scheindlin dismissed the Alien Tort Statute suit against Ford Motor Company and IBM in connection with their business ac...
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Here at Lawfare, we try to spot critical legal issues impacting national security before they're really upon us . . . and eating our brains.
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As the debate in Washington over how to deal with ISIS intensifies, Jack outlined how to make an authorization of force against the militant group politically palatable for both the President and Congres...
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In a summary order yesterday, a panel of the Second Circuit affirmed the dismissal by EDNY Judge Dora Irizarry of an Alien Tort Statute suit against two former directors of the Pakistani Inter-Services I...
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If there were any doubt as to who Russian President Putin is supporting in Ukraine, there sure isn’t now: today, Putin directly applauded pro-Russian separatist rebels there.
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On February 19, 2013, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court granted an order for the production of certain tangible things, applied for by the FBI pursuant to 50 U.S.C.
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The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has released a heavily redacted opinion issued on February 19, 2013. The opinion applies Section 1861 of Title 50. We will have a summary.
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Like all red-blooded national security law nerds, I have been following Jack's excellent posts over the past week on the politics and the advisability of a potential ISIS AUMF---the last of which post, w...
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Over the last 24 hours, the situation in eastern Ukraine has rapidly deteriorated. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko canceled a visit to Turkey after declaring that Russian soldiers are officially ope...
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