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Let’s begin the week with some good news: 25 Guantanamo Bay detainees ended their hunger strike during Ramadan. Although 45 are still being force-fed, the number of hunger strikers is at 81, reports Caro...
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This morning both the WSJ (behind paywall) and NYT have stories on how law and lawyers have influenced the changing USG posture on intervening in Syria. The gist of the WSJ story is that administration ...
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The United States is pressing hard to get hold of National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden. But if and when Snowden is apprehended, what then? This question deserves attention, too, because the den...
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It is the Friday of, as they say in Arabic, "Zahf."
The word connotes a kind of military advance or march---in this case, of supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi, pushing steadily from the gove...
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A Brookings event from the other day, hosted by the other Brookings Wittes.
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Today's New York Times, brings a rich article by Nicole Perlroth and David Sanger on the growing market in zero-day exploits. Zero-day exploits are previously unknown flaws in computer programming that ...
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Crafted with his characteristic mix of brilliance and dark speculations about the motives of government actors, Stephen Holmes, my colleague, has published an exceptionally rich essay in the Financial Ti...
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Laura Dean continued her online Cairo diary, chronicling the goings-on in Egypt. Read all her posts here.
A lot of legal fireworks went off at Guantanamo this week: U.S. District Court Judge Gladys Kess...
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Available here.
This report is Attorney General Eric Holder's response to President Obama's order of a review of departmental policies with respect to the media.
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Last Friday afternoon, while many people were enjoying a long July 4th weekend, the Obama Administration quietly filed a remarkably strong amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to reverse the Ninth Circ...
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Readers will recall Monday's order by District Court Judge Gladys Kessler dismissing, on jurisdictional grounds, one of four GTMO detainees' motions for an injunction to stop force feeding.
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It’s a big day for news ladies and gentlemen. Hold on to your hats.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is resigning. She will be heading to the West Coast to lead the University ...
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CNN is reporting that Janet Napolitano has announced that she will leave the Department of Homeland Security in September to become President of the University of California system. My speculation on re...
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As I promised yesterday I would, I go back to the Egyptian Museum this morning.
In the old days---the days when Egypt was a repressive but stable police state---as many as 10,000 people would come throu...
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Imagine for a moment that the extended network around Lawfare were a terrorist organization. And imagine as welll that the NSA or the FBI wanted to use their now-very-public metadata analysis programs to...
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You've probable already heard the news. But here's the video:
From NBS News:
The X-47B drone made history Wednesday as the first robot to land itself on the moving flight deck of an aircraft carrier at...
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It already had been quite a week in the GTMO habeas world.
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A friend of mine at the Homeland Security Institute recently called my attention to this fascinating article in the Atlantic. The article reveals nascent plans by CBP and the Border Patrol to equip dome...
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Speaking of military commissions, when was the last time you looked at the Office of Military Commissions court calendar?
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We interrupt our regularly scheduled Snowden coverage, and commence instead with some important legislative activity that might otherwise have gone under the radar: the Senate Committee on Agriculture, N...