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Directors from five intelligence agencies appeared yesterday to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Although nothing earth-shattering was revealed at the public hearing, there were some tes...
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I don't normally write a post noting departures from our masthead. Our student contributors come and go with the turn of the seasons. They write for a while and then take clerkships, go to law firms, or ...
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That's the gist of today's ruling in this terrorism case, which is now pending in the Northern District of Illinois. The order opens as follows:
Defendant Adel Daoud is charged with attempting to use ...
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During my senior year of high school, the Thai military staged a coup d’état to overthrow the government of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. I remember tanks rolling past my house in Bangkok, and BBC a...
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In his speech earlier this month, President Obama announced interim changes to the handling of bulk telephony metadata---ones that he would seek to implement immediately, and that would not call for legi...
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This one will get underway at 10:00, too. The Attorney General will appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee; we'll post his testimony when it becomes available.
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The hearing will get underway at 10:00 a.m.. Video will be available via C-SPAN and other outlets.
The Director of National Intelligence will testify; his written statement can be found here.
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Last night, President Obama delivered his State of the Union Address. You can find the full video here. The speech focused on a strong call of action and a promise to go it alone if Congress doesn’t adva...
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I am not sure why this is a big deal, my knowledge of the British legal system being less than fulsome, but a British barrister has written a legal opinion calling into question large swaths of surveilla...
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Judging by Daphne Eviatar's account over at Just Security and Charlie Savage's at the New York Times, it was a pretty scripted and brief (nineteen minutes of open session) affair.
Thus far, the Periodic...
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. . . nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.
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President Obama, in the State of the Union address tonight, made the following remarks:
Tonight, because of the extraordinary troops and civilians who risk and lay down their lives to keep us free, the U...
