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The D.C. Circuit wants to know whether Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman Al-Bahlul desires to continue challenging his conviction by a military commission. And the appeals court wants an answer from the accused h...
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UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counterterrorism, Ben Emmerson, came by the Brookings Institution this morning for a wide-ranging discussion on his investigation of drone strikes. We had planne...
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This Thursday, the Senate Armed Services Committee is holding a hearing which will cover, among other things, the question whether to alter the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force. This is a qu...
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On Thursday, the Senate Armed Services Committee will hold a hearing to discuss potential revisions to the 2001 AUMF. The Hill's Jeremy Herb reports; here's the hearing announcement.
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This morning, I posted a link to a new article I have written with Stephanie Leutert about our efforts to edit the Wikipedia page on "lawfare." The article describes how a volunteer Wikipedia editor name...
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So we learn from this Associated Press story. It hints that the records' acquisition may stem from a DOJ inquiry into the disclosure, last year, of classified material to the AP---regarding the CIA's di...
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International and foreign relations law professor Michael J. Glennon has posted a new paper to SSRN, "The Road Ahead: Gaps, Leaks, and Drips," which will be of considerable interest to both scholars and ...
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A few months ago, I was asked to give a talk at the Pentagon on the concept of lawfare. I opened it with a story about how some months earlier I had tried had tried to edit the Wikipedia page on the word...
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Many thanks to Ritika for taking the Roundup wheel, so to speak, while I was out of the office for a few days.
David Sanger and Nicole Perlroth have this important piece in the New York Times on cyberma...
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Not for the first time, and certainly not for the last, it appears that the Supreme Court disagrees with me--and doesn't think the constitutionality of courts-martial for civilian contractors is worth it...
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Thomas Nachbar (well known to many Lawfare readers - University of Virginia law professor and US Army reservist in the JAG Corps, among other roles) has posted to SSRN a paper originally published last ...
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Attorney General Eric Holder yesterday made these remarks at the University of California Berkeley School of Law's Commencement.
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On April 24, Ben gave a talk at Britain's Parliament. The Henry Jackson Society organized the event, which was entitled "Are Drones the New Guantanamo?"
A lively question-and-answer session followed Be...
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National Public Radio has run this very interesting story on the situation at Guantanamo. It's a lengthy segment, more than 11 minutes and features extended comments from former Attorney General Alberto ...
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I have emerged from my undisclosed location to bring you this week at Lawfare, which saw a lot of detention-related commentary, a serious dose of Ben critiquing Harold Koh, analysis of U.S.-versus-China ...
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Earlier today I posted a commentary on "Boston Bombings: Local Police and Counterterrorism Intelligence," based on reported claims that the FBI failed to pass on important threat information to the Bosto...
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Benjamin Weiser of the New York Times reports on a terrorism case unsealed in Manhattan last night. One Ahmed Abassi from Tunisia has been “accused of seeking to develop a terrorist network in the United...
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Laura Dean is a journalist and writer living in Cairo, from where she has been doing election monitoring projects in countries around the region. She is also a good friend, from earlier days when she liv...
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Over at the Heritage Foundation, Senior Legal Fellow Cully Stimson held this event the other day, at which Kenneth Wainstein spoke:
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The New York Times had a story yesterday headlined “F.B.I. Didn’t Tell Boston Police of Warning on Brother”:
Police Commissioner Edward Davis said that though some of his officers worked with the F.B.I. ...