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A Modest Proposal for NSA
I had an idea the other day---a way for NSA to serve the national interest, do good for humanity, and improve its public image all at once. Drum roll, please! NSA should get into the business of publishi... -
Thinking about MH370
Fools, they say, rush in where angels fear to tread. Proving that I am less angelic than foolish (and confident that the blogosphere will quickly forget these musings), I thought I'd offer a few Homelan... -
NYU School of Law Event: "'The Snowden Operation': A Victory for Privacy Rights or for Russia?"
NYU School of Law hosted a debate yesterday between Edward Lucas, Senior Editor of The Economist and author of The Snowden Operation: Inside the West’s Greatest Intelligence Disaster---which Ben reviewed... -
Intelligence Squared US Debate: "The President Has Constitutional Power To Target And Kill U.S. Citizens Abroad"
For the Motion: Alan Dershowitz, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School Michael Lewis, Professor of Law, Ohio Northern University School of Law Against the Motion: -
The SSCI Fracas and the CIA’s Duty to Make Criminal Referrals to DOJ
Ken Dilanian has a story on Acting CIA General Counsel Robert Eatinger (whom Caroline Krass, just confirmed, will succeed.) Eatinger is at the center of the fracas between CIA and SCCI because he sent a... -
Ahmed Belbacha Transferred from GTMO to Algeria
So we learn from this statement, released earlier this morning by the Department of Defense: The Department of Defense announced today the transfer of Ahmed Belbacha from the detention facility at Guantá... -
Guantanamo's War
In the past decade, the word “Guantanamo” has come to represent far more than the Cuban bay that lent its name to one of America’s oldest military bases more than a century ago; it has joined our 21st ce... -
Text of Senator Feinstein's Remarks This Morning Regarding SSCI and CIA
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Senator Feinstein's Remarks on the CIA-SSCI Document Controversy
Right now, Senator Dianne Feinstein, the Senate Intelligence Committee's Chairman, is speaking out, on the Senate floor, about a well-publicized dispute between the CIA and the SSCI---regarding the latte... -
A Dissenting Word on the Harold Koh Memoranda
I want to take issue with Peter Margulies’s laudatory remarks this weekend about the Harold Koh memos on extraterritorial application of the ICCPR and the CAT---you know, those memos that mysteriously sh... -
Two Passports on Malysian Air Stolen
The news is here. European officials confirm that at least two of the passengers whose passports were used to board MH370 were not, in fact, on the plane and that those who boarded the plane were using ... -
Extraterritoriality and Human Rights: Time for a Change in the U.S. View?
As Jack has frequently observed, legitimacy and effectiveness often go hand-in-hand. The two comprehensive State Department memoranda by former Legal Adviser (and Yale Law School dean) Harold Koh releas...
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