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Both the NYT Becker-Shane “Kill List” story and the Klaidman book excerpt have implications for the pending ACLU FOIA suit in CADC, which seeks CIA records on CIA drone strikes.
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Yesterday, I linked to this article in the New York Times on the development of Obama's counterterrorism policies. I did not know when I posted it that my old colleague, Dan Klaidman, had a book excerpt ...
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Over at Volokh Conspiracy, I make some comments on the NYT article to which Ben linked this morning. My comments run to the kind of signals that the administration might be seeking to send about the tho...
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The New York Times this morning has a lengthy, rich, and detailed feature story on President Obama's counterterrorism record. Reporters Jo Becker and Scott Shane have done a really terrific job of bringi...
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The government has moved for reconsideration in the Hedges case.
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A Fourth Circuit panel has affirmed the convictions of the Somali pirates who in 2010 attacked the USS Nicholas, rejecting their contention that their failure to actually board (let alone seize) the ship...
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I've gotten lots of helpful feedback both on- and offline re: yesterday's post on Clapper v. Amnesty International, and wanted to write in a bit more detail about (my understanding of) the foreign intell...
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Something to mull, while Judge Pohl ponders severance in the 9/11 case: whether the government’s evidence in the still-far-off-in-the-future military commission trial (or trials) also could be admitted i...
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In light of the Supreme Court's grant of certiorari yesterday to review the Second Circuit's decision in Clapper v. Amnesty International, I thought I'd put together a background post trying to explain w...
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Amidst all the discussion of whether and how to amend the House NDAA bill to address domestic captures, I am amazed that I did not notice the Rooney Amendment, which has been adopted. What does it do? ...
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