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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, ... -
The First Lawfare Drone Smackdown
I have been challenged to a dogfight. The other day, over lunch, Alice Beauheim--occasional Lawfare book review writer, godmother of the Lawfare license plate, and an employee, if you catch my meaning, ... -
Negotiations Ongoing For The Transfer of Kuwaiti GTMO Detainees
That's the word from The Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg. She also reports that the sworn-but-never-referred military commission charges against Faiz al Kandari, one of two Kuwaitis still held at Guantan... -
ACLU Opposition to CIA Motion to Remand in DC Circuit FOIA Case
From the Blog of the Legal Times, we learn that the ACLU has filed its opposition to the CIA's motion to remand, in the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") appeal now awaiting oral argument before the D.C. -
Today’s Headlines and Commentary
Lots of healthcare national security news and commentary today. In developments Bobby discussed yesterday, the Associated Press reports on the new developments in the Al Kidd case—namely, that federal M... -
Proxy Detention in Somalia, and the Detention-Drone Tradeoff
There has been speculation about the effect of the Obama administration’s pinched detention policy – i.e. no new detainees brought to GTMO, and no new detainees to Parwan (Afghanistan) from outside Afgha... -
Faster Than You Can Say "Wahid": Petitioner Transferred, Order Vacated
Remember Tuesday's order in Wahid v. -
The Saudi Gazette Wants Guantanamo Closed
This is rich. An English-language Saudi newspaper, the Saudi Gazette, has an editorial entitled "Close Guantanamo" bashing President Obama for failing to keep his campaign pledge to close the detention ...
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