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"Getting Away With Murder: Benazir Bhutto's Assassination and the Politics of Pakistan," by Heraldo Munoz
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Best Correction of the Month
From the Financial Times: Apology to His Excellency Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed al Khalifa -
President Review Group's Recommendations: FISA-Related Proposals
The President Review Group's ("PRG") Report, released last week, makes nearly four-dozen individual recommendations related to foreign intelligence surveillance, privacy, civil liberties oversight respon... -
D.C. Circuit Dismisses Bagram Habeas Petitions
This Christmas Eve opinion, authored by Circuit Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson for a three-judge panel composed of Judge Thomas B. Griffith and Senior Circuit Judge Stephen F. Williams, affirms the distri... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary...
...will be taking the day off today and tomorrow for Christmas. Happy holidays to all! -
Undeterred by Kiobel, Ninth Circuit Allows Doe v Nestle ATS Claims to Continue
On December 19, a panel of the Ninth Circuit issued a brief order in the long-running Doe v. Nestle case, vacating a September 2010 district court decision dismissing ATS and TVPA claims brought by natio... -
Cole and Lederman, and Morell, on Review Group Report
Marty Lederman has a good summary of the highlights of the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies at Just Security. And he and David Cole have a lengthy post on what th... -
My Correspondence with Rick Perlstein: You Decide
On Saturday, I posted this piece in response to a particularly slimy blog post on The Nation's web site. The post dealt with Lawfare's relationship with the New Republic and the sponsorship of our joint ... -
December NSA Mini-Trove: Clapper and Fleisch on Secrecy Claims Post-Snowden
At the heart of this month's NSA Mini-Trove are the government's most recent explanations of its now narrower claims of secrecy in two long-pending lawsuits---Jewel v. NSA and Shubert v. Obama---the narr... -
A December NSA Mini-Trove
On Friday, the Director of National Intelligence declassified eight documents related to NSA activities, including the bulk collection of telephony metadata. The documents---all declarations by NSA offi... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Surveillance first: At President Obama's end-of-year press conference on Friday, he promised a "pretty definitive statement" on proposed NSA reforms after the holiday. As we noted Friday, the latest Sno... -
The Foreign Policy Essay: Elizabeth Dickinson on "Financing Extremism in Syria"
The civil war in Syria has confounded U.S.
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