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Editor’s Note: Although the “Israel lobby” and the support of the American Jewish community for Israel have long received considerable attention, the U.S. evangelical community and its strong backing for...
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It is almost axiomatic in Washington, that the bureaucracy buries news of which it is not proud with a release late in the day on a Friday afternoon. Though it is a bit harsh to say so, one suspects tha...
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Worth noting: There have been four reported drone strikes in Yemen over the past two weeks. Long War Journal provides the details on the latest one here; LWJ's drone coverage in general is simply invalu...
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The slow-boil debate regarding the fate of the 2001 AUMF continues. The subject came up on March 11 when Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations/Low-Intensity Conflict (SO/LIC) Michael Lum...
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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:
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Another belated post: last week, a district court in Maryland dismissed a ATS and TVPA lawsuit filed in 2011 by members of the Chinese Falun Gong a group of Chinese dissidents against Cisco Systems, the ...
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I am late in reporting that last month the Second Circuit affirmed the dismissal of the ATS and TVPA suit against former President Zedillo of Mexico, based on the Suggestion of Immunity signed by my succ...
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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...
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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...
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In an interview conducted yesterday at the Council on Foreign Relations, CIA Director John Brennan had an interesting exchange with Audrey Kurth Cronin on the subject of al Qaeda’s organizational scope. ...
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Editor’s Note: The Russian military occupation of the Crimea and Russian president Vladimir Putin’s attempts to railroad a political settlement that would separate Crimea from the rest of Ukraine is the ...
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I’m usually a big fan of Ben’s cogent observations on Washington’s folkways. Unfortunately, I can’t be as enthusiastic about Ben’s reply to my earlier post on Harold Koh’s memos regarding extraterritori...
