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Government Shutdown? Guantanamo Detainee Seeks Oral Argument, Anyway
An intriguing development in a Guantanamo-related case ongoing during the government shutdown: detainee Ahmed Adnan Ajam, who challenges Guantanamo transfer restrictions as incompatible with the Constitu... -
Al-Libi and Detention at Sea
While no navy captain likes stormy weather, the controversy over the temporary detention on a navy vessel of the captured Al Qaeda leader Abu Anas al-Libi is a tempest in a teapot. As John Bellinger not... -
Critical Thoughts on New Report on Obama Leak Crackdown
Today the Committee to Protect Journalists published a very critical report on the Obama administration’s efforts to crack down on leakers and control the flow of secret information from government offic... -
How Snowden Might Help Cybersecurity
A few weeks ago the NYT had a piece by David Sanger about how the Snowden revelations will hurt if not kill the NSA’s ambitious plans for cybersecurity defense in the U.S. homeland. “Administration offi... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The United States Government has announced that it will withhold certain military and economic aid from Egypt until substantive democratic progress is made in the country. Here is the text of a State Dep... -
Senate GOP Letter on Shutdown and National Security
Apropos of my exchange this morning with Jeremy Rabkin, Senate Republicans on Tuesday issued this letter asking President Obama to declare all national security workers to be "essential" and return them ... -
Jeremy Rabkin Responds on the Shutdown and National Security
Jeremy Rabkin, a law professor at George Mason University, sent me an email in response to my post from Sunday about the shutdown and national security. -
"Drones Are the Future for Dull or Dangerous Missions"
The splendidly quotable title quote - "Clearly, drones are the future for dull or dangerous missions" - comes from Dan Jangblad , chief strategy officer for Sweden's aerospace company, Saab AB, by way ... -
Lawfare Internship for Spring 2014
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Relaunch of the GTMO Periodic Review Boards
Just as the great post-2008 wave of GTMO habeas litigation winds down, it appears to be time, at last, to revive the Periodic Review Board system at GTMO. DOD breaks the news here (text reprinted below ... -
Does the U.N.’s Syria Resolution Violate the Chemical Weapons Convention?
As inspectors from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons begin their inspections in Syria, they could find themselves on a collision course with the United Nations Security Council res... -
D.C. Circuit: No Postponement in Al Janko v. Gates, Either
Just as it did in Aamer v. Obama, the Department of Justice filed a motion for postponement in Al Janko v. Gates, another Guantanamo-related appeal before the D.C. Circuit.
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