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Prime Minister Racap Tayyip Erdogan has won Turkey’s first direct presidential election. The Wall Street Journal explains that the landmark victory will secure Erdogan’s power in Turkey for another five ...
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New on the DNI's Tumblr site, IC on the Record: on August 6, and in response to a FOIA request, the Department of Justice released a slew of newly declassified, redacted documents related to the National...
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That's the word from the Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg. I haven't yet seen the ruling, but gather from the story that the dismissal had to do with the absence of certain evidence---rather than the bound...
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The New York Times shares an interview conducted by Thomas Friedman with President Barack Obama. In it, the President covers a wide-range of foreign policy issues, including Iraq, Israel, China, Syria, a...
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The military judge, Army Col. James Pohl, takes the bench. Only one accused is present: Ramzi Binalshibh, whose case the court recently separated out from that against the other four accused in the 9/11...
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Today your correspondent will observe, via CCTV, pre-trial proceedings in the case of United States v. Ramzi Binalshibh. That's the prosecution against only one of the five men accused of plotting the 9...
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You can find the whole thing here, and the opening paragraphs below.
And that's a good a reminder as any, that today Lawfare returns to Fort Meade, for almost-live-blog coverage of pre-trial proceedings...
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Editor’s Note: The United States is supporting the Afghan government with troops and other military assistance in the fight against Islamist radicals based in Pakistan. As the United States ponders its p...
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At this hour, DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson is speaking at the ABA Convention. Here's the text of his speech:
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Washington was abuzz this week as more than 50 African leaders were in town for the first U.S.-Africa Summit. Yesterday, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, the President of Somalia, spoke at Brookings on the future ...
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In his WPR notification yesterday, President Obama stated that military operations in Iraq “will be limited in their scope and duration.” But today, according to the NYT, President Obama “sought to pre...
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Yesterday, the U.S. conducted air strikes and aid drops in response to the ongoing crisis in Iraq. Wells informed us on Thursday that President Obama was considering renewed U.S. involvement in Iraq. Cod...
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Here is the letter. Two points of note.
First, the President makes clear that he is authorizing military force in Iraq “pursuant to my constitutional authority to conduct U.S. foreign relations and as ...
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It is pretty clear that President Obama today relied on Article II to attack the Islamist State (IS) in Iraq. I have addressed the legality of such unilateral military action here and here. I have also...
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Yesterday I maintained that the Iraq strikes were not legally problematic to the extent that they were justified as self-defense of U.S. persons, but said that “[i]f the Iraq strikes are conceptualized a...
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“Today America is coming to help,” announced President Obama as he authorized U.S. airstrikes and humanitarian airdrops in northern Iraq. The Associated Press notes that “the announcements reflected the ...
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The Pentagon tweets that the U.S. military has begun airstrikes against Islamic State (IS) positions in Iraq. Precisely, force has been deployed against IS artillery that was used “against Kurdish force...
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Dan Geer gave this keynote address at the Black Hat conference yesterday. It is entitled Cybersecurity as Realpolitik. It begins with some general thoughts on the state of play in cybersecurity, addres...
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This time, it's Mohammed Al-Adahi (remember him?). The opinion is by Judge Gladys Kessler.
