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You can read the edited transcript from the Senate's debate yesterday on the detention provisions here. Previous coverage is available here and here. This includes debate on the Sessions amendment starti...
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As so many of you have found our earlier post of the Senate debate over the NDAA useful, we wanted to offer legislative materials related to the Senate's deliberations. I will continue to update this po...
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FBI Director Robert S.
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Having now returned from my undisclosed location, here's a transcript of the Senate floor debate on the NDAA.
The Senate debated the bill on Thursday and Friday. This transcript, helpfully includes only...
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The UK for some time has been wrestling with the problem of civil litigation that implicates states secrets. Foreign Minister William Hague addressed the issue eloquently in this speech, which in releva...
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The full Seventh Circuit has granted the government’s motion to rehear en banc Vance v. Rumsfeld, a suit by two U.S. citizens alleging that they were detained and tortured by U.S. forces in Iraq.
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Oral arguments in Lebron v. Rumsfeld took place before the Fourth Circuit on Wednesday.
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Speaking of the oddly-named Bmaz--which I was briefly yesterday--he has flagged an incredible snippet of a Politico interview with White House chief of staff Bill Daley on the subject of leaks.
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Tomorrow, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit will hear oral arguments in Lebron v. Rumsfeld, in which Jose Padilla and his mother, Estella Lebron, appeal a district court's dismissal of a B...
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The text of the speech that Jeh Johnson, General Counsel of the Department of Defense, gave at the Heritage Foundation earlier today is available here. We will post the video of the event, including the ...
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Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker of the NYT report that the Obama administration considered using offensive cyber-weapons in the war in Libya, but in the end did not use them. Schmitt and Shanker give seve...
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My colleague Noah Feldman has an interesting essay on Bloomberg that draws connections between the controversial Bush-era legal opinions on interrogation and President Obama's targeted killing policy. T...
