Today's (and Yesterday's) Headlines and Commentary

Today is the 70th anniversary of the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor. Read historian Ian Toll's New York Times op-ed on the "date which will live in infamy." With the conference committee trying to finalize language by the end of the week, there is a lot to say on the proceedings. A meeting on Monday between FBI Director Robert Mueller and senators on the conference committee may result in some slight revisions to reflect the concerns that Mueller voiced in his letter, reports Jeremy Herb at DefCon Hill, The Hill's blog. Ben has posted Part 1 (of two) of a comparison of the House and Senate detention provisions. On the commentary side, Jacob Sullum discusses what the current and proposed detention provisions actually mean over at the Chicago Sun Times. Gawker has this over-the-top-but-kind-of-amusing piece on the detention provisions in the Senate's version of the bill, including 20 things to know about the provisions. Adam Paul Laxalt and Ron Desantis over at National Review argue that the responsibility of writing detention policy should rest with elected representatives, not "unaccountable judges with no competence in military or national security matters."  It seems that the drone that has landed in Iranian hands did belong to the U.S. Greg Miller at the Post writes on the CIA and Pentagon's initial reactions to accusations that the drone belonged to them. Read Greg's earlier post, reporting that the CIA acknowledged that it belonged to the spy agency. The LA Times ponders how this loss may be exploited. David B. Rivkin, Jr. and Charles D. Stimson have this Wall Street Journal op-ed advocating for the transfer of Ali Musa Daqduq, about which Bobby has written here, here, here, and here to Guantanamo so he can be tried in a military commission for his role in the January 2007 attack on U.S. soldiers in Karbala, Iraq. Al Jazeera's Katie Taylor shares the story of Adel el-Gazzar, a former Guantanamo detainee who was released from Guantanamo, only to be put into Tora Prison in Egypt. Rep. Pete King is continuing his Muslim-American radicalization campaign in a joint hearing today with Senator Joe Lieberman. Jordy Yager at The Hill has the story. The Washington Post reports that the U.S. has opened a virtual embassy in Tehran, but less than a day later, it has already been blocked. Bet you didn't see that one coming! Watch Secretary Clinton's welcome message over at Checkpoint Washington. Three years, 400 million pages. The National Archives is in the throes of clearing a 400 million page backlog of materials to declassify, much of which is from the Cold War era. The Washington Post's Peter Finn reviews progress toward the lofty goal of finishing in three years. WMNF 88.5 FM reports on Colleen Rowley's speech on the NDAA in Tampa. Rowley is a former FBI agent, was one of Time's 2002 People of the Year (as one of "The Whistleblowers") and is an anti-war activitist. She said that the bill expands the language of the 2001 AUMF, which would continue the GWOT indefinitely, according to the article. For more interesting law and security-related articles, follow us on Twitter, and visit the Georgetown Center on National Security and the Law’s Security Law Brief as well as the Fordham Law Center on National Security’s Morning Brief. You can also read yesterday's LWOT over at Foreign Policy. Feel free to email us noteworthy articles we may have missed at wakeman.lawfare@gmail.com and  singh.lawfare@gmail.com.