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Now Available: Charges Against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
The freshly unsealed criminal complaint was filed sometime yesterday. -
CATO Event on Drones
Ben and Steve are speaking on a panel at the CATO Institute entitled "Drones and the New Way of War" along with Rosa Brooks of Georgetown Law and Benjamin Friedman of CATO. The event will be moderated b... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
There is a plethora of analysis, debate, and speculation about the capture of suspected Boston bomber Dzokhar Tsarnaev. Drake Bennett at Bloomberg talks about the facial recognition technology that might... -
A Preview of Likely Terrorism-Related Charges Against Tsarnaev
There will be no shortage of charges in the indictment that will issue against Tsarnaev shortly. Many if not most will be ordinary violent-crime charges rather than terrorism-specific ones--though they'... -
Mary Laurie Writes a "Chinese White Paper"
Mary M. Laurie, a third-year law student at Penn State Law, has rewritten the DOJ White Paper on targeted killing from the perspective the Chinese government. She explains: China considered using a drone... -
Ben Fox on the Situation at Guantanamo
Ben Fox of the Associated Press has a particularly good account of the situation at Guantanamo. Because it was posted on Friday, amid the late unpleasantness in Boston, most people undoubtedly missed it-... -
Was that a Throwbot Used in the Ricin Raid?
The Daily Mail ran the following picture in this article about the raid on the home of alleged Ricin-mailer Kevin Curtis: Notice the device the guy on his knees is holding. -
Geoff Corn on Tsarnaev, Miranda, and Questioning Terrorism Suspects
The following guest post is from Professor Geoffrey Corn (South Texas College of Law). While there is still much we do not know regarding the Boston marathon bombings, there is enough information (and ... -
Federal Public Defender to Represent Boston Marathon Suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
The Federal Public Defender Office for the Districts of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island has said it expects to represent Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, according to Mir... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
It's kind of a cliche to observe that it's been quite a week. Having spent five years in Boston and at the ‘Tute, I was pained to see my old stomping ground start to resemble a war zone during these past... -
Four Reasons Sens. Graham and McCain are Wrong
Sens. Lindsey Graham and John McCain were quick out of the box last night in declaring that the Obama administration should hold Dzhokar Tsarnaev in military detention: Now that the suspect is in custody... -
Interrogating Tsarnaev: No Need for Military Detention Here
Unless there is good reason to believe that the Tsarnaev brothers were acting as agents of al Qaeda or some other AUMF-covered group, talk of putting Dzhokar Tsarnaev into military custody as an enemy co...
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