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An Initial Thought on the Due Process Guarantee Act
It may surprise some readers, but I find myself oddly attracted to the Due Process Guarantee Act--which Steve described last night. The bill is cast as a response to the NDAA detention authorization prov... -
The NDAA and the Due Process Guarantee Act of 2011
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Cert Petition in Gul
Last week, Nazul Gul and Adel Hassan Amad – both former Guantanamo detainees who were transferred by the United States to their home nations before their habeas petitions were resolved – sought a writ of... -
"Please read the damn bill" Finale: NDAA Conference Report Passage
The Senate just voted for final passage for the NDAA conference report (H.R. 1540). The vote was overwhelming: 86-to-13. All seven senators who voted against the Senate version earlier this month (S.1867... -
Shane Bilsborough on Counterlawfare in COIN
Shane Bilsborough, a student at Pepperdine University, has this very interesting essay over at the Small Wars Journal on "Counterlawfare in Counterinsurgency." In opens: In recent years, something akin t... -
Advocacy and the Animal Enterprise
Breaking in Boston: animal rights activists today filed a First Amendment challenge to the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act ("AETA"), which reportedly makes it a "terrorism" crime, among other things, to ... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Let's start with an NDAA update: As Bobby reported last night, the House passed the conference version of the NDAA. For the Congress nerds among us, the motion to recommit the bill failed in a 183-234 vo... -
The NDAA Passes the House, and Thoughts on Issues It Will Raise Later After Becoming Law
The House has passed the conference version of the NDAA. It will go on to the Senate, probably coming up tomorrow (Thursday). With the White House veto threat lifted, the NDAA likely will be law in ver... -
Offensive Cyberspace Operations, the NDAA, and the Title 10-Title 50 Debate
Back in May, I noted that the House version of the NDAA contained a very interesting section addressing “military activities” in cyberspace. Section 962 of that bill would have “affirmed” that DOD may c... -
The Uganda Intervention and the WPR 60-Day Clock
On October 14, President Obama notified Congress that he had sent “a small number of combat-equipped U.S. forces to deploy to central Africa to provide assistance to regional forces that are working towa... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The only true casualty of Ben's accidental cyberattack on Lawfare was yesterday's Headlines and Commentary post, which survived no better than an Iranian nuclear centrifuge infected with the Stuxnet viru... -
Uthman's Reply Brief
Uthman Abdul Rahim Mohammed Uthman responds to the government's argument against his cert petition in his new reply brief, available here. It opens: The petition in this case presents in stark terms the ...
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