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Today's Headlines and Commentary
Rep. Peter King is at it again--he's chairing an investigative hearing of the House Homeland Security Committee today to assess the terror threat to the U.S. homeland posed by Iran and its links to Hezbo... -
Senator Feinstein on the Obama Administration and Targeted Killing
Earlier this week I published a piece on the Foreign Policy page that defended the legal infrastructure for the Obama’s administration’s targeted killing program. At the end I made the following proposa... -
Opinion in Kadi v. Geithner
Yesterday, Judge John Bates of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia granted the government’s motion for summary judgment in the case of Kadi v. Geithner. Yassin Abdullah Kadi, a... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
A Pakistani parliamentary commission has demanded an end to U.S. -
Moving to Warrant-Based Targeting and the Law Enforcement Model in Afghanistan?
A little while back, I wrote an article describing the evolution of our capture and detention policies in Iraq from 2003 to 2010 (based on a review of a massive pile of after-action reports and interview... -
Oral Argument Yesterday in Doe v. Rumsfeld [Updated]
The D.C. Circuit heard oral argument yesterday in Doe v. Rumsfeld (11-5209), a Bivens case brought by a U.S. citizen working as a military contractor in Iraq who alleged detention and interrogation abuse... -
Sustained Sequences of Non-Spectacular Terrorist Attacks
In most years when I teach my seminar on the history of terrorism and US counterterrorism law and policy, the question arises why terrorists do not more frequently embrace the "Beltway Sniper" model--i.... -
Two Upcoming Events at Brookings
Two upcoming events at the Brookings Institution that are salient to a lot of the issues we discuss on Lawfare: Pakistan on the Edge: The Future of Pakistan and the U.S. Response -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Lots of developments over the weekend in the case of the American soldier who went on a rampage and killed 16 Afghan civilians. First off, he now has a name--Staff Sgt. Robert Bales--and the New York Tim... -
Peter Margulies on Proposed FOIA Amendments
Peter Margulies of Roger Williams School of Law has this article on proposed amendments to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). -
Lawfare Podcast Episode #7: Paul Rosenzweig and Allan Friedman on Cybersecurity Legislation
In this episode of the Lawfare Podcast, I sat down with Lawfare's cybersecurity legislative guest blogger, Paul Rosenzweig, and with my Brookings colleague Allan Friedman, to talk about pending pending c... -
Administration Response to Andy Worthington
An administration official sends in the following in response to Andy Worthington's critique of the DNI's recidivism numbers: How I wish he were right. But he isn’t. The DNI numbers usefully distingu...
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