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Net Neutrality Explained
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If President Washington Had An Office of Legal Counsel
Over at Point of Order, Michael Stern has an amusing and informative reflection on how President Washington might have responded to a House inquiry into a military defeat in the Northwest Territories, ha... -
The GameOver Zeus/CryptoLocker Indictment
Following up on last weeks indictment of 5 Chinese PLA members for economic espionage, the Department of Justice continued yesterday its apparent prosecutorial offensive against cyber criminals. The cas... -
The Administration's New (and Unconvincing) Reading of the Notice Requirement for GTMO transfers
The Obama Administration has backed away from its suggestions over the weekend that it failed to comply with the notice requirement in Section 1035 of the 2014 NDAA on constitutional grounds. -
Commentary on Bond
Curt Bradley’s thoughts are at AJIL Unbound, the Volokh Conspiracy has commentary by Nick Rosenkranz and Ilya Somin, and Jean Galbraith and -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Lots of discussion in the wake of the weekend’s freeing of Sgt Bowe Begdhal in exchange for the transfer of five Afghan Guantanamo detainees. Ben has outlined his thoughts on the matter, while Jack has f... -
Military Commission Charges Approved Against Abd Al Hadi Al-Iraqi
The Convening Authority's sign-off came yesterday, and now allows the Guantanamo case to proceed to arraignment. There are five charges in all---including denying quarter, attacking protected property, ... -
Interesting Poll Data on Attitudes Toward Snowden
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Two Great Essays on Glenn Greenwald's New Book
The first is by George Packer, writing in Prospect: Some of the instances are more subtle than others, but spread over the several hundred pages of this book, they reveal a mind that has liberated itsel... -
Another PRB, Another Detainee Cleared for Transfer
This time it's Ghaleb Nassar Al Bihani, about whom a Periodic Review Board found last week: The Periodic Review Board, by consensus, determined continued law of war detention of the detainee is no longer... -
One or Two Other Statutes the President Likely Disregarded in The Bergdahl Deal [UPDATED]
Earlier today I explained why the President almost certainly disregarded Section 1035 of the 2014 NDAA when he swapped the GTMO detainees for Bergdahl. The President probably disregarded another statute... -
Thoughts on the Bergdahl-for-Taliban Trade
What do you give up to get back one of your own? Talk about a hard national security choice. The decision to trade five senior Taliban detainees at Guantanamo for Private First Class Bowe Bergdahl has it...
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