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This morning, the White House released a proposed Authorization for the Use of Military Force against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant to Congress. You can find the AUMF transmittal letter and th...
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Jury selection in the trial of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has dragged on for over a month. Since January 5, over 150 potential jurors have been questioned, and still the judge proc...
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If one thing was clear from Tuesday morning's 61-minute argument before the D.C.
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It is with great reluctance that I wade into Gabor and Steve’s debate about how to close the U.S.
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Our session is once more called to order. The defense and accused are here, but now the Special Review Team is not---its place having been taken by the ordinary prosecution team.
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The gavel bangs. The military judge, Army Col. James L. Pohl, calls the proceedings to order. Members of the prosecution are absent, their place taken by a Special Review Team that has been looking into ...
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Here y'are. Brig. Gen. Mark Martins' remarks begin as follows:
Good afternoon. On this day in 1949, the bill that ultimately became the Uniform Code of Military Justice was introduced into both houses o...
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In the past few days, in the wake of ISIS's horrific burning of a Jordanian air force pilot, Jordan has adopted a highly combative tone toward the group. It has matched this rhetoric with action: Its a...
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Here it is, given by Brian McKeon, Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, before the Senate Armed Services Committee. And here's the video of yesterday's hearing:
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Senator Tom Cotton, whom I like, doesn’t support the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention center. As the SASC hearing today he said of the Guantanamo detainees, “every last one of them can rot in hel...
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Gabor's post from this morning, which is styled as a response to Ben's thoughtful analysis of what it will take to close Guantánamo (while ignoring some of the other responses), concludes that the only m...
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The rumors circulating that the administration might in the next week finally present a draft AUMF against the Islamic State causes me to ask: What is the point of a new AUMF?
Military operations agains...
