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Today's Headlines and Commentary
Raffaela has decamped to an undisclosed location for a few weeks, so I'll be rounding up headlines and commentary for a spell. Feel free to email me noteworthy articles worth my including at singh.lawfa... -
D.C. Circuit Ruling in Latif
The D.C. Circuit appears to have ruled in the case of Adnan Farhan Abd Al Latif (which Larkin previewed here, the briefs from which she posted here, the argument in which she and I covered here). Latif w... -
Air Force Network Administrators Learned About the Drone Virus from Wired Magazine [Updated]
Jack highlighted a Wired story last week about a computer virus infecting the Air Force's drone fleet, including the virtual "cockpits" at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada. -
An Unintended Side Effect of the Libyan Intervention
From the Washington Post: Large caches of weapons from Libya are making their way across the Egyptian border and flooding black markets in Egypt’s already unstable Sinai Peninsula, according to current a... -
Abdulmutallab Pleads Guilty to All Counts
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The New York Times on the Al-Aulaqi Killing
The first thing to say about today's long-belated New York Times editorial on the Al-Aulaqi killing--and the memo justifying it--is that it is not a ridiculous document, and I'm not going to ridicule it.... -
At Last, the Times Speaks!
Better late that never, the New York Times has finally run an editorial on the Al Aulaqi strike. This makes it impossible to accept new entries in the Write the New York Times Al-Aulaqi Editorial Compet... -
Arrest in an Alleged Iranian Plot to Kill the Saudi Ambassador to the United States
This is a pretty remarkable development. Authorities have arrested a dual US-Iranian citizen on charges that he conspired with a senior official of Iran's Qods Force (of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionar... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The big news this morning is that Al Qaeda has joined the ranks of those who say that the U.S. targeted killing of Anwar Al-Aulaqi was unconstitutional. Jason Ukman at the Washington Post reports on the ... -
Competition Entry #1
Jacob Sternberger, a political science and security studies major at Dickinson College, has the distinction of sending in the first entry in Lawfare's Write the New York Times Al-Aulaqi Editorial Competi... -
John Yoo on the Al-Aulaqi Memo
Reading the blogs today, you might think Marty Lederman and David Barron had gotten deeply in touch with their inner John Yoo when they wrote the Al-Aulaqi memo. Spencer Ackerman, to cite a typical examp... -
U.N. Report on Treatment of Detainees in Afghan Custody
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan has released its report on the treatment of detainees in the custody of the Afghan government. Here is the executive summary: From October 2010 to Au...
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