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House Judiciary Committee Written Statements for Tomorrow’s Hearing
The House Committee on the Judiciary has released the written statements of its four witnesses for tomorrow’s hearing on "Drones and the War on Terror: When Can the U.S. Targeted Alleged American Terrori... -
Goodman Responds to Corn, Blank, Jenks, and Jensen on Capture-Instead-of-Kill
The following is a guest post from Ryan Goodman, continuing a conversation begun yesterday in this post from Geoff Corn, Laurie Blank, Chris Jenks, and Eric Jensen. What the Critics of the “Lesser Evil”... -
Cyborg-Roach: An Idea Whose Time Has Come---and Scuttled Under the Fridge
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A Statutory Framework for Next-Generation Threats
Several years ago, in a prescient op-ed in the Washington Post, our colleague John Bellinger argued that the September 2001 AUMF was an increasingly poor fit for the evolving threats facing the United St... -
Corn, Blank, Jenks, and Jensen Respond to Goodman on Capture-Instead-of-Kill
The following is a guest-post from Geoff Corn, Laurie Blank, Christopher Jenks, and Eric Talbot Jensen, responding to Ryan Goodman's recent Slate article (building on his new European Journal of Internat... -
Barred in DC But You Can Buy them in Secure International Airports
According to the FAA, you can't fly the Parrot AR Drone 2.0 in the D.C. Flight Restricted Zone. -
Of Course President Obama Has Authority, Under Some Circumstances, to Order Lethal Force Against a U.S. Citizen on U.S. Soil (and a Free Draft Response to Senator Paul for John Brennan)
I noted last week than in his answer to the question whether the Obama administration could “carry out drone strikes inside the United States,” John Brennan gave this non-response: “This Administration h... -
Witness List for Feb. 27 House Judiciary Hearing on "Drones and the War On Terror"
The House Judiciary Committee has released the witness list for its coming, February 27 hearing on "Drones and the War On Terror: When Can the U.S. Target Alleged American Terrorists Overseas?" Careful L... -
Human Rights Watch Campaign on Killer Robots---and Tom Malinowski's Response
A few weeks ago, Tom Malinowski of Human Rights Watch had a thoughtful and serious---if sometimes playful---exchange with Matt, Ken, and me over fully autonomous weapons systems. But there seems to be an... -
Need to Dodge a Drone? Here are 22 Al Qaeda Tips
Yesterday, the AP released an English translation of what appears to be a 2011 Al Qaeda tip sheet. (AP journalists evidently found the document in Timbuktu.) Its author, AQAP senior commander Abdullah ... -
Pejman Yousefzadeh on Teaching Cybersecurity Using the Game of Go
Chicago lawyer Pejman Yousefzadeh writes in, at my request, with the following thoughts on teaching students to counter cyber threats using the ancient strategic game of Go. Pejman, who writes a very int... -
February 27 House Judiciary Hearing on "Drones and the War on Terror"
For those who can't get in to the Supreme Court oral argument in Shelby County v. Holder, and who aren't otherwise enticed by the Journal of National Security Law & Policy's inaugural symposium, "Swimmin...
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