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David Anderson on British Legislative Developments
The other day, David Anderson, the U.K.’s Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, dropped by Brookings to talk with me about legislative proposals in Britain for a Closed Material Proceeding in ci... -
July 17 Constitution Project Event on Boumediene's Legacy
For those D.C.-area Lawfarers interested in continuing the conversation Ben, Bobby, and I had in June about Boumediene's legacy (or lack thereof), the Constitution Project is hosting what promises to be ... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The story of the day is that the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, aka the Dronemaker Club, has released a "Code of Conduct" (the quotation marks are theirs, not added by me to incr... -
No Remand in ACLU FOIA Appeal
A three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit (Judges Tatel, Garland and Griffith) has rejected the CIA's motion to remand in ACLU v. -
US-China Cyber Dialogue
Two think tanks -- one from China and one (CSIS) from the US have been conducting a dialogue on cybersecurity over the past several years. This joint release (English at the bottom) summarizes some of t... -
All Together Now: All 9/11 Accused Now Agnostic About Severance
Reviewing the docket in United States v. -
FOIA Request Reveals National Security Letter Templates
The Wall Street Journal and Ars Technica report on some very intersting results of a FOIA request for information on the "national security letters" that the FBI sends to tech companies to get informatio... -
Homeland Security in 2025
Last week, Brookings published an interesting paper "A Vision for Homeland Security in the Year 2025," by Darrell West. The paper is the result of a rather large session conducted at Brookings last Nove... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on a number of informal money-exchange networks in Afghanistan and Pakistan. -
The Serious Side of Lawfare’s Drone Smackdown
I’m not too surprised by the negative reaction provoked by my post over the weekend about my coming drone duel with Alice Beauheim. It was a cheeky, flip post on a very serious subject—as several people ... -
Two More Jurisdictional Challenges Rejected in Al-Nashiri
Judge James Pohl has denied two motions to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction in United States v. -
Gabriella Blum on Spiders and "Invisible Threats"
Gabriella Blum has a new essay out entitled, "Invisible Threats." Part of the Emerging Threats series of the Hoover Institution's Koret-Taube Task Force on National Security and Law (of which Jack, Ken, ...
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