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More Thoughts on the Future of the World
Earlier this week, I posted a short note about the National Intelligence Council and its projection of alternate futures for the year 2030. While I would never say the work was derivative :-), I should ... -
New York Times Analysis of the WCIT Treaty
I may be exiled from the blog for saying this, but the New York Times has an excellent analysis of the recently concluded WCIT treaty meeting in Dubai in today's paper. It begins: At the global treaty c... -
Lawfare: Hard Nationizzle Securitizzle Chizzlez?
Earlier today, while looking for any excuse to avoid grading while working very hard on grading the exams for my National Security Law class, I noticed several law-oriented blogs posting links to Gizoogl... -
Administration Issues WPR Report
Here is the White House's supplemental consolidated report regarding the deployment of U.S. armed forces. The report is addressed to the Speaker of the House, and was---in the President's words---"prepa... -
Motion to Dismiss Filed in Al-Aulaqi v. Panetta et al.
Today, lawyers for Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, and other federal officials sued in their individual capacities, filed a motion to dismiss in the case of Al-Aulaqi v. -
Emergency Motion Denied in Hedges
According to a notation on the Supreme Court's docke -
Today’s Headlines and Commentary
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D.C. Circuit Opinion in <i>Khairkhwa</i> Comes Down
The D.C. Circuit has handed down its latest Guantanamo habeas case, Khairkhwa v. Obama. The brief, unanimous opinion by Senior Judge A. Raymond Randolph for himself and Judges Judith Rogers and Merrick G... -
WCIT Treaty Breakdown -- A Summary and Some Analysis
As you may have read by now (reports from the New York Times and Washington Post are pretty good), that the WCIT conference has ended in disarray. The United States and a number of other Western countr... -
Senate Intelligence Committee Interrogation Report Approved---But Not Released
Well, we know it’s long---more than 6,000 pages long. We know it’s critical. And we know it was approved on a 9-to-6 vote. Here’s the statement by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who chairs the Senate Select Comm... -
And Now For Something Completely Different
From the Tumblr site, IRCats ("International Relations as Depicted By Cats"). . . h/t Stephanie Dahle -
Wall Street Journal on NCTC Database Access
The Wall Street Journal has an article today, titled “U.S. Terrorism Agency to Tap a Vast Database of Citizens.” It reports: The rules now allow the little-known National Counterterrorism Center to exam...
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