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The CIA's Counterterrorism Center as a Combatant Command: Today's Story in the Post and My Forthcoming Article on the Legal Aspects of Military-Intelligence Convergence
Greg Miller and Julie Tate have a remarkable story in the Washington Post this morning (and if my local paper the Austin American-Statesman is any indicator, also on the front page of a whole lot of othe... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Tim Mak at the Politico covers in more depth the developing story surrounding court documents from an aviation dispute in Hudson, NY that detail the CIA's rendition program. David Ignatius ponders wheth... -
Convictions Affirmed (and Reinstated) in "Care International" Prosecution
* United States v. Mubayyid and Muntasser (1st Cir. Sep. -
New Casebooks for National Security Law and Law-and-Terrorism
For those who are in the process of picking casebooks for a national security law or law-and-terrorism course next spring, you’ll want to take a look at the following two: “National Security Law” (5th e... -
Happy Birthday Lawfare
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The UN Vindicates Israel
No, that's not an Onion headline--nor is today April 1. Nor is it entirely true. Still, the New York Times has obtained a copy of the "Report of the Secretary-General’s Panel of Inquiry on the 31 May 20... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
I'm in the process of collecting and posting reviews of and commentary on Vice President Dick Cheney's book that will be of interest to Lawfare readers. -
Eleventh Circuit Dismisses ATS Suit Against Senior Bolivian Officials
On August 30, the Eleventh Circuit decisively dismissed a classic lawfare lawsuit -- an Alien Tort Statute suit brought against the former President and former Defense Minister of Bolivia (Gonzalo Sanche... -
Ooops! I forgot to Assert the State Secrets Privilege
That's what somebody in the government is saying today, on reading this Washington Post story about a contract dispute between two aviation companies involved in CIA renditions--a dispute that seems to i... -
The "Gamification" of Hacking
The Washington Post has an interesting article this morning on a website that posts rankings of hackers. The concept is that hackers earn points based on level of difficulty of the hack, as well as the ... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The new Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors, Alan Krueger, challenged the Bush administration's assertion that invading Iraq would reduce world-wide terror, Nancy Scola at the Atlantic writes. Amn... -
National Security as Fading Priority
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