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Military Commission Regulations Available
The new regulations for the military commissions have just been posted on the military commission's website. This long (202 page) document is a comprehensive list of the military commissions' procedures,... -
Ben and Bobby's Whereabouts
To our more devoted readers: blogging will be on the lighter side today because Ben and Bobby are speaking at the Defense Department's 8th Annual Worldwide Detainee Conference. Do not fear though--things... -
"The Only Man Ever to Enter Parliament with Honest Intentions"...
...was, of course, Guy Fawkes, who entered in 1605 with the intention of blowing the place up, along with King James I. Today, November 5, is Guy Fawkes Day--a holiday we don't celebrate in the United S... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Lots of stuff before the weekend. Kimberly Dozier of the Associated Press reports that the CIA is following "Facebook, newspapers, TV news channels, local radio stations, Internet chat rooms--anything o... -
More on Executive Disregard of Federal Statutes
As Bobby notes, Charlie Savage reports that the Obama administration disregarded a congressional statute that banned (through a spending condition) certain activities of the Office of Science and Technol... -
Exclusive Presidential Power to Select Diplomatic Agents
Charlie Savage reported yesterday that OLC has issued an opinion (available here) concluding that Congress exercised its spending power in an unconstitutional manner when it purported to bar the White Ho... -
DNI Report on Economic Cyberespionage
Yesterday the Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive of the DNI released a Report entitled Foreign Spies Stealing US Economic Secrets in Cyberspace. The Report explained in general terms w... -
The Consequences of an Afghan Drawdown on Detention Authority
Following up on my last post regarding section 1031 of the NDAA FY 12 and the future of detention authority, I want to draw attention to what strikes me as a huge and looming issue--but one that is getti... -
Catch-22 Alive and Well in the SDNY Too
On his new blog, The Loyal Opposition, New York Times Editorial Page Editor Andrew Rosenthal has this post arguing that "One particularly compelling reason [not to use military commissions] is that tribu... -
Detention Authority and Section 1031 of the NDAA
A response to Steve Vladeck's post on Section 1031 of the Senate version of the NDAA FY '12, which concerns detention authority under the 9/18/01 AUMF. -
Alejandro Manevich on Canadian Courts and Khadrs
My old friend Alejandro Manevich, now an attorney in Toronto, writes in with the following on today's development in the extradition case of Abdullah Khadr: I thought your readers may be interested in th... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
According to Noah Rosenberg of the New York Times, Viktor Bout, a high-profile Russian terrorist who became known as the "Merchant of Death," was found guilty in NY federal district court of a raft of cr...
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