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I've been thinking about ways to get the Lawfare Podcast a wider audience, and I want to recruit some reader help in this endeavor. Over on iTunes, the podcast has only five-star ratings, but nobody has ...
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Here's some legislative action to watch . . . in Deer Trail, CO:
DEER TRAIL, Colo. - The small town of Deer Trail, Colorado is considering a bold move. The town board will be voting on an ordinance that ...
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. . . here is State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki explaining how the administration, under legal obligation to cut off aid to Egypt if there has been coup in that country, is under no legal obligation...
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The White House announcement on Friday that the Defense Department plans to transfer two Algerian detainees held at Guantanamo to Algeria represents the most recent action in a long series of efforts by ...
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As Ben noted earlier this week, he and Daniel Byman of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings launched their report entitled “Tools and Tradeoffs: Confronting U.S.
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Folks, there's more to life than guessing what the future King of England will be named. There's the week that was!
Ritika completed a significant research project comparing various studies' approaches...
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In recent posts both on Lawfare and at Opinio Juris, Steve and Kevin Jon Heller (here and here) sharply critiqued the brief that Jim Schoettler and I filed on Thursday for Former
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Drones continue to raise Senator Rand Paul's (R-KY) hackles---the FBI's drones especially, these days.
Last month, and following drone-related congressional testimony by outgoing FBI Director Robert S.
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So says this White House press release:
Statement by the Press Secretary on Guantanamo Bay
As the President has said, the United States remains determined to close the detention facility at Guantanamo B...
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Gary Schmitt has an interesting piece in the Weekly Standard that argues for eliminating FISC oversight of executive branch surveillance and instead ramping up congressional oversight. He maintains that...
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Cora Currier at Pro Publica has an important story on why DOD won’t publish the list of AUMF “associated forces” against whom we are at war. DOD’s rationale:
A Pentagon spokesman told ProPublica that re...
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Raff already flagged yesterday's filing of an amicus brief in support of the government in the Al Bahlul military commission appeal before the en banc D.C. Circuit by "former government officials, former...
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Closing arguments were made in the Bradley Manning trial on Thursday.
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I've developed a bit of a backlog of things to post--a regrettable function of a crushing work volume in some of my various other lives and the fact that Lawfare, as it grows, requires more and more day-...
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Two amicus briefs were delivered today in the en banc phase of GTMO detainee Ali Hamza Ahmad Suleiman Al-Bahlul's appeal to the D.C. Circuit. The accused, as readers well know, was convicted by a militar...
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As Jack and Raffaela noted yesterday, the D.C.
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Chris Woods, who until just recently used to spearhead the Covert Drone War investigation at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism in London, writes in with the following comments on my post from the ot...
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The House narrowly voted down the Amash-Conyers amendment to curb NSA phone surveillance to specific targets of law enforcement investigations.
