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Proxy Detention of a U.S. Citizen in Iraq? A Glimpse Into a Murky but Important Category of Detention
I would have missed this story if Phil Carter hadn’t flagged it on Twitter, since the Post categorized it as a merely “Local” item: a U.S. citizen from Virginia by the name of Mohamad Khweis apparently w... -
How Wikileaks Hacked the Media
There are two real stories involving the CIA data dump by Wikileaks, neither of which is about the actual documents themselves. The first is that somebody managed to exfiltrate the data from the CIA in t... -
DOJ Delivered Only Copy of SSCI Report to Court, Senate Democrats Write
As Benjamin Wittes and I have noted, the last few weeks of the Obama administration and the first months of the Trump administration generated some activity surrounding the Senate Intelligence Committee’... -
This Week at the Military Commissions, 3/10 Session: Motion Sickness and Medical Side Effects
March 10th opens with a lengthy examination of an unnamed Senior Medical Officer (SMO), who was formerly responsible for caring for Nashiri from September 2016 through February 2017. The defense team hav... -
This Week at the Military Commissions, 3/9 Session: A Timeline for Discovery
Our usual crew returns to Nashiri where we left them on the 8th—debating a timeline for discovery. -
This Week at the Military Commissions, 3/8 Session: Wouldn’t It Be Nice to Talk About the Cole?
Editor's Note: Our military commissions coverage will be out of order this week due to difficulties in accessing transcripts from the Office of Military Commissions website. As such, coverage for Wednesd... -
The True Costs of the Wall: Reduced Security
We have written on this blog about the financial costs of President Trump's plan to build a wall on the southwest border. Cost estimates are somewhere north of $20 billion—and if we are going to spend t... -
A Programming Note on This Week’s Military Commissions Coverage
Lawfare would like to apologize for the delay in our military commissions coverage this week. As our readers know, we rely on transcripts provided by the Office of Military Commissions to provide our cov... -
Rethinking the Role of Human Rights in the International Refugee Regime
Among the many legal issues raised by the President’s January 27, 2017 executive order (EO) temporarily halting entry into the United States of citizens from seven primarily Muslim countries, including w... -
"H" is for High Technology Cooperation, Not H-1B Visas
Last Friday, U.S. Customs and Immigration Services announced that it would be suspending the expedited processing of H-1B visas beginning on April 3rd. Though this news has long been pushed off the front... -
FBI Can Withhold Sensitive FOIA Processing Records, DC District Court Rules
Documents the FBI creates when it processes a FOIA request can be withheld from future FOIA requests in certain sensitive cases, D.C. District Judge Randolph Moss ruled on Monday. -
This Week at the Military Commissions, 3/6 Session: Discovery Woes, Unauthorized Browsing, and “Captain X”
After three months away, pretrial hearings in the USS Cole case are set to resume, with military judge Air Force Colonel Vance Spath calling the session to order. The judge notes those who are present, i...
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