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The Obama Administration Embraces the Domestic-Only Reading of the ICCPR
It's official: the Obama Administration is sticking with the Clinton and Bush Administration positions on whether America's ICCPR obligations apply abroad, denying that they do. Charlie Savage has the ... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Politico reports that the House Intelligence Committee is nearing a bipartisan agreement on legislation that would end the NSA’s bulk telephony data collection program. The plan would allow telephone co... -
NYU School of Law Event: "'The Snowden Operation': A Victory for Privacy Rights or for Russia?"
NYU School of Law hosted a debate yesterday between Edward Lucas, Senior Editor of The Economist and author of The Snowden Operation: Inside the West’s Greatest Intelligence Disaster---which Ben reviewed... -
Intelligence Squared US Debate: "The President Has Constitutional Power To Target And Kill U.S. Citizens Abroad"
For the Motion: Alan Dershowitz, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School Michael Lewis, Professor of Law, Ohio Northern University School of Law Against the Motion: -
ATS/TVPA Suit Against Cisco Systems Dismissed on Political Question and Act of State Grounds
Another belated post: last week, a district court in Maryland dismissed a ATS and TVPA lawsuit filed in 2011 by members of the Chinese Falun Gong a group of Chinese dissidents against Cisco Systems, the ... -
Second Circuit Affirms Dismissal of ATS/TVPA Suit Against Former President Zedillo
I am late in reporting that last month the Second Circuit affirmed the dismissal of the ATS and TVPA suit against former President Zedillo of Mexico, based on the Suggestion of Immunity signed by my succ... -
The SSCI Fracas and the CIA’s Duty to Make Criminal Referrals to DOJ
Ken Dilanian has a story on Acting CIA General Counsel Robert Eatinger (whom Caroline Krass, just confirmed, will succeed.) Eatinger is at the center of the fracas between CIA and SCCI because he sent a... -
Caroline Krass Confirmed as CIA General Counsel
The news, reported earlier this afternoon by the Washington Post, adds a new and interesting dimension to the CIA-SSCI spat. -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
What precisely is the deal with the so-called “Panetta Review” that lies at the heart of the CIA-SSCI battle? Over at Politico, Josh Gerstein reports on CIA concerns over the backgrounds of these interna... -
Ahmed Belbacha Transferred from GTMO to Algeria
So we learn from this statement, released earlier this morning by the Department of Defense: The Department of Defense announced today the transfer of Ahmed Belbacha from the detention facility at Guantá... -
Drone Flies Into Volcano
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Guantanamo's War
In the past decade, the word “Guantanamo” has come to represent far more than the Cuban bay that lent its name to one of America’s oldest military bases more than a century ago; it has joined our 21st ce...
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