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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... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
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Post-Boston Polls Find Americans Increasingly Unwilling To Trade Freedom for Security
A very interesting post on the New York Times's FiveThirtyEight blog argues that, while Americans think future terrorist attacks are likely, they're also increasingly "skeptical about sacrificing persona... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The latest on the Boston bombings is that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been charged with using a weapon of mass destruction and malicious destruction of property in a dramatic bedside hearing yesterday. -
Today's Senate Judiciary Subcommittee Hearing on the Targeted Killing Program
As Greg McNeal noted, the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights is holding a hearing this afternoon on the targeted killing program entitled "Drone ... -
Breaking News: D.C. Circuit Grants En Banc Rehearing in Al-Bahlul
Whoa. This is very big news---though what it means is far less clear. The D.C. Circuit has granted the government's petition for rehearing en banc in the military commission case of U.S. v. Al-Bahlul. ... -
Senator Graham on Tsarnaev and Miranda
Yesterday, Senator Lindsey Graham held a press conference, in which he unsurprisingly lamented the White House's decision not to treat Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as an "enemy combatant." A transcript is below. G...
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