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A recent cluster of stories – on al Qaeda’s growth, dispersion, and resilience, on the USG’s increased use of surveillance drones outside of “hot war zones,” on the USG possibly
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Really stunning.
Hat tip: Albert Lukban
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On March 8, 2011, Saeed Bakhouch, an Algerian GTMO detainee also known as Razak Ali, noted an appeal of the District Court’s January 2011 denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Oral argumen...
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Today, the Brookings Institution released a lengthy paper my colleague Daniel Byman and I have been working on for some time, entitled "Tools and Tradeoffs: Confronting U.S. Citizen Terrorist Suspects Ab...
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Let’s begin with the news everyone’s ga-ga about: The Royal Baby has arrived! Just kidding. We don’t do that here. Chris Kelly, writer for SNL and The Onion, said it best:
The Royal Baby already said his...
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One thing that struck me about the run up to the recent nomination for FBI Director (and the earlier nomination process for Secretary of State): the lack of public dialogue about the challenges the burea...
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There are at least three noteworthy elements in the WP’s story this morning about intelligence committee “approval” of “CIA weapons shipments to opposition fighters in Syria.”
First is the fact that the...
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We're a little late to the party on this one, but Ben and fellow Brookings scholar Daniel Byman will discuss their lengthy report "Tools and Tradeoffs: Confronting U.S. Citizen Terrorist Suspects Abroad"...
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In his widely discussed May 23 speech at the National Defense University, President Obama acknowledged that “much of the criticism about drone strikes---at home and abroad---understandably centers on rep...
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. . . coming up on Thursday before the Senate Armed Services Committee.
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Craig Whitlock had a significant piece in the Washington Post over the weekend detailing the expanded use of surveillance drones outside of declared combat zones.
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Last week, I posted these thoughts on the remaining mystery surrounding what the 2004 dispute that led to the famous hospital room showdown. I offered a couple of theories, based on Snowen-disclosed docu...
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Well, it is not exactly being launched with fanfare, but it appears that the long-awaited Periodic Review Board (PRB) process is about to be relaunched at GTMO. So reports Carol Rosenberg, here.
Let me...
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On Friday, Brookings hosted Bob Litt, the General Counsel to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
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I was relieved to see that there is no classified information on this trail marker along the Appalachian Trail in Shenandoah National Park. I had been worried.
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Earlier this year I started an episodic feature on new technology and how it might impact national security. My first offering was on a life logging system known as Memoto. At the time, I noted some in...
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Robert S. Litt, General Counsel to the Director of National Intelligence, spoke at Brookings on Friday about surveillance law.
Jane Chong and I had a great time previewing and then recapping the oral ar...
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Despite the day (TGIF!), the weather (95 degrees and rising), and other developing national security news, the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse security checkpoint was brimming with people primed to hear ...
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It's a big news day in national security law for all kinds of reasons---one being today's opinion from the Fourth Circuit in United States v. Sterling.
That, of course, is the prosecution against a fo...
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Wells hosted Bob Litt, general counsel to the ODNI, this morning at Brookings, for an address about privacy and intelligence collection practices. Check out the C-SPAN video.