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You can find a copy here. An excerpt from the statement by Chief Prosecutor Brig. Gen.
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Folks, at 9:00 a.m. tomorrow, pre-trial hearings resume in the 9/11 case. As always, Lawfare will cover the four-day session, which we’ll observe remotely, via closed-circuit television.
The day report...
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Peter Baker, who is finishing a book on the Bush Presidency, has a long front-page article in the New York Times today entitled "Obama's Turn in Bush's Bind" discussing how the mounting domestic and inte...
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For those of you who have spent the weekend wondering what the next administrative change at Lawfare is going to be, wait no more. The advent of the Lawfare News Feed has made our news ticker (the rollin...
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This came in via Twitter today, from Lawfare reader and former Brookings intern, Meaghan Maher.
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There's been a fair amount of buzz over the past few days centered around the idea of a statutory "drone court"--a tribunal modeled after the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) that would (pr...
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Georgetown professor Anthony Clark Arend - old friend to many of us at Lawfare - has a new short post on whether judicial oversight of drones would be a good idea - or constitutional.
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Noah Feldman has a piece entitled Obama’s Drone Attack on Your Due Process, which concludes:
The white paper should have said that due process doesn’t apply on the battlefield. By instead making due proc...
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Continuing Lawfare's discussion of the Drone White Paper, we're pleased to publish the following guest post by Geoffrey Corn on the question of threat identification and the use of force; our thanks to h...
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Speaking of the John Brennan confirmation hearing, here's the video, courtesy of CSPAN:
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John Bellinger and Christoper Anders of the ACLU this morning had a discussion of John Brennan's testimony, drone strikes, and the administration's legal positions on CSPAN's Washington Journal this morn...
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NPR's Weekend Edition ran the following extended interview with me this morning on the subject of drone strikes, the White Paper, and the administration's legal views more generally. It isn't anything ne...