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While We Were Watching The House . . .
. . .The Senate took action on a host of pending executive branch nominations on Wednesday evening after it passed legislation ending the shutdown. Two dozen civilian executive branch nominations, to be ... -
Jeh Johnson Chosen to Lead the Department of Homeland Security
Here's the news, from The Daily Beast's Dan Klaidman: The White House has settled on a former high-ranking Pentagon official to replace Janet Napolitano as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Secu... -
Interim Report by UN Special Rapporteur Ben Emmerson on Drones in Counterterrorism Operations
You can find the interim report---the final won't be submitted to the U.N. Human Rights Council until 2014, apparently---here. There's a good bit to pore over in the paper authored by Emmerson, with who... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Well that was fun. Shutdown over---for now. Default averted---for now. Now back to our regularly scheduled programming. Can we all agree not to talk about Ted Cruz for at least the next two weeks? It's ... -
Oral Argument Preview: Aamer v. Obama
Tomorrow at 9:30 a.m., D.C. Circuit Judges David S. Tatel and Thomas B. Griffith, and Senior Judge Stephen F. Williams will hear oral arguments in Aamer v. -
Shane Harris on Heritage and Lawfare
I really don't know what to say about this piece that Shane Harris posted last night at Foreign Policy, so I'm largely going to let it speak for itself: -
The Demise of Damages in Counterterrorism Cases
Via the New Republic's Security States blog, I have a new essay up on last week's Ninth Circuit decision in Hamad, and how it's part of the larger pattern of judicial hostility to damages suits in counte... -
Lawfare Podcast Episode #45: Tom Mann and Norm Ornstein on Political Dysfunction
Over the last few weeks, Benjamin Wittes and John Bellinger both have written on Lawfare about the government shutdown, Tea Party Republicans, and political dysfunction's implications for national securi... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Abu Anas al-Liby, whom U.S. special forces snatched from Libya and deposited aboard the U.S.S.San Antonio, pled not guilty to conspiracy charges in Manhattan's Federal District Court yesterday. -
Charles Taylor Goes to Jail in Britain: The Backstory
Charles Taylor, the former President of Liberia who was convicted of war crimes in 2012 by the Special Court for Sierra Leone, arrived in Britain yesterday to begin a 50-year prison term in a British jai... -
How the Government Justifies Its Data Hauls: The Sieve Theory
What does the government's demand for Lavabit's encryption keys have to do with its justification for its bulk data collection under FISA Section 215? Basic logic. -
The Debt Ceiling as a National Security Issue
If a body other than the Congress of the United States were actively contemplating a step that would, by the accounts of virtually all economists, tank the U.S. economy, cause interest rates to shoot up,...
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