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This morning, the White House sent a draft Authorization for the Use of Military Force against ISIS to Congress. We’ve posted both the text of the proposal as well as the accompanying transmittal letter....
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Editor's Note: As we scale up Lawfare's coverage of security issues in hot-button regions, we thought we would start rounding up Lawfare-relevant items from the Middle East and North Africa. This feature...
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Here are the key policy judgments in the President's AUMF proposal:
"The President is authorized . . . to use the Armed Forces of the United States as the President determines to be necessary and approp...
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This morning, the White House released a proposed Authorization for the Use of Military Force against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant to Congress. You can find the AUMF transmittal letter and th...
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Alas, Lawfare won't be live-blogging the session, which presumably will reveal a bit more about what one accused, Ramzi Binalshibh, told the judge on Monday: that the detainee recognized one of his trans...
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Over at Just Security, Steve Vladeck and a group of scholars have posted a letter to President Obama asking him to include in his AUMF proposal not merely a sunset for the new ISIS AUMF but one for the u...
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Jury selection in the trial of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has dragged on for over a month. Since January 5, over 150 potential jurors have been questioned, and still the judge proc...
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If one thing was clear from Tuesday morning's 61-minute argument before the D.C.
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President Obama confirmed today that Kayla Mueller, a U.S. aid worker who had been held hostage by the Islamic State, has been killed. Over the weekend, the militant group sent photos of Mueller’s body t...
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At the Wilson Center, Lisa Monaco, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, delivered a keynote address about the evolving nature of the cyber threat and the Obama administr...
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According to the Washington Post, the Obama administration is establishing a new agency to fuse intelligence from around the government when a cyber crisis occurs.
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It is with great reluctance that I wade into Gabor and Steve’s debate about how to close the U.S.
