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Today's Headlines and Commentary
Word on the street was that Edward Snowden has received documents giving him permission to depart his temporary home in a Moscow airport. The AP reports, but the New York Times says it's not the case, af... -
ATS/TVPA Suit Against Former Mexican President Zedillo Dismissed Based on U.S. Suggestion of Immunity
On Monday, Judge Michael Shea of the District of Connecticut dismissed an ATS and TVPA suit against former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo based on a Suggestion of Immunity filed by the Justice Departm... -
The Amash Amendment and the NSA
Sometime late today or perhaps tomorrow the House of Representatives will vote on a proposed amendment to the Defense appropriations bill offered by Representative Justin Amash (R-MI) and co-sponsored by... -
The Long, Classified War
A recent cluster of stories – on al Qaeda’s growth, dispersion, and resilience, on the USG’s increased use of surveillance drones outside of “hot war zones,” on the USG possibly -
Incredible Footage of Niagara Falls Taken from a Drone
Really stunning. Hat tip: Albert Lukban -
Razak Ali v. Obama: A Case of Mistaken Identity, or "Guilty By Guesthouse"?
On March 8, 2011, Saeed Bakhouch, an Algerian GTMO detainee also known as Razak Ali, noted an appeal of the District Court’s January 2011 denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Oral argumen... -
Tools and Tradeoffs: Confronting U.S. Citizen Terrorist Suspects Abroad
Today, the Brookings Institution released a lengthy paper my colleague Daniel Byman and I have been working on for some time, entitled "Tools and Tradeoffs: Confronting U.S. Citizen Terrorist Suspects Ab... -
Today’s Headlines and Commentary
Let’s begin with the news everyone’s ga-ga about: The Royal Baby has arrived! Just kidding. We don’t do that here. Chris Kelly, writer for SNL and The Onion, said it best: The Royal Baby already said his... -
The Leader DHS Needs Now...Or, Later
One thing that struck me about the run up to the recent nomination for FBI Director (and the earlier nomination process for Secretary of State): the lack of public dialogue about the challenges the burea... -
The Remarkably Open Syrian Covert Action
There are at least three noteworthy elements in the WP’s story this morning about intelligence committee “approval” of “CIA weapons shipments to opposition fighters in Syria.” First is the fact that the... -
Ben and Daniel Byman Launch Report Today
We're a little late to the party on this one, but Ben and fellow Brookings scholar Daniel Byman will discuss their lengthy report "Tools and Tradeoffs: Confronting U.S. Citizen Terrorist Suspects Abroad"... -
A Meta-Study of Drone Strike Casualties
In his widely discussed May 23 speech at the National Defense University, President Obama acknowledged that “much of the criticism about drone strikes---at home and abroad---understandably centers on rep...
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