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And we're back. Ibrahim al-Rubeish, a senior member of Al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia, who is also a former Guantanamo detainee has recommended to UAE interior minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud to ... -
"The Triple Agent: The al-Qaeda Mole Who Infiltrated the CIA," by Joby Warrick
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If you apply for this job, you probably should refrain from mentioning that you read about it on Lawfare: Counsel, Liberty and National Security Program Location: Washington, DC Department: Liberty and... -
Mea Culpa: Trial Forums of all Types
In kicking off Lawfare's 9/11 10th anniversary project devoted to laying bare our own non-trivial errors of analysis or understanding over the last decade, I have a number from which to choose. All, howe... -
Matthew Waxman on Detention Policy Lessons Learned
Over at the Council on Foreign Relations web site, Matthew Waxman offers a brief essay on lessons learned on detention policy from the last ten years: An important lesson since the 9/11 attacks is that d... -
Tom Joscelyn on Al Kandari
Over at the Weekly Standard's blog, Thomas Joscelyn has this piece critiquing a CNN report on Fayiz Mohammed Ahmed Al Kandari, whose habeas case we have covered here. -
New Details on US-Mexico Intelligence and Logistical Coordination against Cartels
Another Mark Mazzetti story from the past week that deserves your attention: this piece, which sheds some additional light on the intelligence and logistical support that the United States is providing t... -
Is AQAP Part-and-Parcel of al Qaeda? Some New Evidence
Mark Mazzetti had a piece yesterday in the Times covering the important news that CIA once again has located and killed al Qaeda's top officer for operational planning (Atiyah abd al-Rahman, who took ove... -
Lawfare's 9/11 10th Anniversary Project
The 10th anniversary of September 11 is, as everyone knows, coming up soon, and it promises a veritable orgy of selective memory. America's debate over law and security is, in general, characterized by a... -
Redactions to Ali Soufan's New Book
The New York Times is reporting that the CIA has demanded "extensive cuts from the memoir of a former F.B.I. agent who spent years near the center of the battle against Al Qaeda." Ali Soufan has been a v... -
Thomas Drake Oped
Thomas Drake, the former NSA employee who was charged with leaking classified information, in a case that collapsed last month, has this oped in the Washington Post today. Money quote: From 2001 through ... -
Charlie Savage on Cheney's Memoir
The New York Time's Charlie Savage has obtained a copy of former Vice President Cheney's forthcoming memoir. Not a lot in his story about the book that will surprise on matters of interest to readers of ...
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