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Today's Headlines and Commentary
Lots going on since the weekend: Saudi Arabia is pushing for the alleged Iranian assasination plot to be brought to the United Nations in a bit of regional power play, and the Iranian Foreign Ministry d... -
Jeh Johnson Speech Text Now Available
The text of the speech that Jeh Johnson, General Counsel of the Department of Defense, gave at the Heritage Foundation earlier today is available here. We will post the video of the event, including the ... -
The Risks of Deploying Malware: Duqu and Stuxnet through the Lens of the Libya Cyberattack Dispute
Kim Zetter at Wired writes this afternoon of the discovery of a strain of malware that appears to build in significant part on components of Stuxnet--but that functions more as a reconnaisance tool enabl... -
Livestream: Jeh Johnson speaking about detention legislation at the Heritage Foundation
Jeh Johnson, the General Counsel of the Department of Defense, is currently speaking about detention legislation at the Heritage Foundation. The livestream is available here. -
Quick Thoughts on the USG's Refusal to Use Cyberattacks in Libya
Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker of the NYT report that the Obama administration considered using offensive cyber-weapons in the war in Libya, but in the end did not use them. Schmitt and Shanker give seve... -
Military-Intelligence Convergence and the Law of the Title 10/Title 50 Debate
As I've noted before (including this morning), I’ve been at work for some time on a paper exploring the legal issues generated by the convergence of military and intelligence activities and institutions—... -
Stimson on the Pending NDAA FY12 Bills
Cully Stimson (Heritage) has posted a very handy review of the pros and cons of the pending NDAA FY12 bills, highlighting both the useful and problematic aspects of that legislation. And as a reminder, ... -
"Eyes on Spies," by Amy B. Zegart
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Supreme Court Grants Cert in Kiobel
The Supreme Court has granted cert in the Kiobel case, in which the Second Circuit held last fall that corporations may not be held liable for violations of the "law of nations" under the Alien Tort Stat... -
Examining the Evidence of a Detention-Drone Strike Tradeoff
Yesterday Jack linked to this piece by Noah Feldman, which among other things advances the argument that the Obama administration has resorted to drone strikes at least in part in order to avoid having t... -
Peter Margulies on Boston University "Long War" Conference
Peter Margulies writes in with an excellent summary of what sounds like a fascinating conference Friday at Boston University: BU’s conf. -
Pardiss Kebriaei on the A-Zahrani Oral Argument
Pardiss Kebriaei writes in with the following response to my admittedly harsh summary of her D.C. Circuit argument in Al-Zahrani, in which I suggested that she had no good answer to a pretty basic jurisd...
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