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Salam Al-Marayati on Boston and Combating Extremism
Salam al-Marayati, President of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, sent in this piece on the Boston attacks and extremism: An unfortunate consequence of the Boston Marathon bombings has been this: the si... -
Syrian Chemical Weapons and Obama's Red Line
President Obama now finds his administration occupied with three WMD -related crises: Iran, North Korea, and Syria. The resolution of all of them will depend in part on the credibility of U.S. threats ... -
Belated Report: $5 Million Reward for Joseph Kony's Transfer to the International Criminal Court
Better late than never. I have been meaning to report for some time Secretary Kerry's announcement earlier this month -- via an op-ed in the Huffington Post -- that the State Department is now offering... -
Amici Retired Military Officials Seek to Participate in Al-Nashiri v. MacDonald Argument
The Ninth Circuit will hear oral argument in Al-Nashiri v. MacDonald on June 3. The civil appeal challenges the power of the Military Commissions’ Convening Authority to prosecute Al-Nashiri before a mi... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Details in the investigation of the Boston bombings keep trickling out: Greg Miller of the Washington Post reports that the bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed in a shootout with police la... -
Changing US Code Section Numbers for Key Provisions in Title 50
One of the hallmarks of a person steeped in national security law is their facility with the statutory designations in various parts of Title 50, especially the National Security Act of 1947 and the CIA ... -
Hedges: CA2 Refuses Supplemental Briefing and Argument On Issues Arising From Clapper
So we learn from this order, handed down yesterday, by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. In a letter filed after the Hedges oral argument, attorneys for the government had cited... -
Obama Drone Strikes Targeting Low Level Insurgents?
Peter Bergen of the New America Foundation, which is the leading compiler of information about US drone strikes, made this interesting comment in his testimony yesterday before the Senate Judiciary Commi... -
Former Counterterrorism Official Philip Mudd at Brookings
Brookings Senior Fellow Bruce Riedel, director of the Brookings Intelligence Project and a former CIA official, hosted Philip Mudd, a former CIA and FBI official, for a public talk this Monday entitled "... -
Court Prohibits Government Hack Back
This report from today's Wall Street Journal is fascinating. It involves the decision of a Magistrate Judge to deny a government application for a search warrant in which the government proposed to inst... -
Bahlul Requests Clarification of D.C. Circuit's <i>En Banc</i> Order
As Wells and Ben wrote yesterday, the D.C. Circuit granted the government's petition for rehearing en banc in U.S. v. Bahlul. Today, the accused's counsel asked the court to clarify instructions it iss... -
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