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We've written a fair amount already about Chief Judge Lamberth's September 2012 decision regarding the Guantánamo detainees' continuing right of access to counsel (not to mention his March 2013 decision ...
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OK ... it isn't that bad. But it does say something when it is noteworthy that DoD has now officially acknowledged that the Chinese military are a source of cyber intrusions in the United States. The fu...
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Two interesting and related developments in the Al-Bahlul appeal now pending before the D.C. Circuit: first, it seems that in mid-April, the accused had passed a note to a JTF-GTMO guard, in which Al-Bah...
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Scott Shane of the New York Times discusses the devastating effects of online radicalization, and how difficult it can be to detect plots before the fact. The brothers Tsarnaev appear to have been motiva...
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I have been fretting for the last few weeks about the amount of misinformation that has been floating around the press coverage---and particularly the commentary---of the Guantanamo hunger strikes. But I...
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In recent weeks, a coalition of NGOs launched a global campaign to ban "killer robots," or fully autonomous weapon systems (see reporting here). Its statement calls "for urgent action to preemptively ba...
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This must have national security implications---though I don't pretend to be sure what they are.
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I'm emerging temporarily from my undisclosed location to get you caught up on this week's Lawfare happenings.
Detention-related matters made up most, but hardly all, of the week's writings. There were ...
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This morning, a gentleman named Sina Kashefipour, who tweets on national security-related matters under the improbable moniker @rejectionking, came by my office to interview me for a podcast he runs on n...
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In March, Obaydullah, a Guantanamo detainee, signed this declaration.
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Yesterday was a day we mostly forgot about: the second anniversary of the Osama bin Laden raid. Although much of the commentary centered around remarks from Adm. William McRaven, head of Special Operatio...
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Next Thursday, the Supreme Court will decide whether or not to grant certiorari in United States v. Ali--the case in which the highest court in the military justice system, the Court of Appeals for the A...
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As Raff noted last week, the lawyers for the defendant-appellant in United States v. al-Bahlul--the military commission case in which the D.C.
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Dear Readers: You're all stuck with me for the next week and a half while Raffaela takes a bit of a break.
Let's begin with more news on those three comrades of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev who were arrested in co...
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One of the fun parts of working in the cybersecurity field is that you often come across new technology that is interesting, dismaying, disturbing or just plain cool. Sometimes the technology is all of ...
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The Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington, DC hosted an excellent discussion yesterday on targeted killing in which "[p]anelists evaluated issues like the current frameworks regarding the use of drones,...
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Slate magazine has a big scoop this week; it has published excerpts from a lengthy, 466-page memoir by Guantanamo detainee Mohamedou Ould Slahi, released by Slahi's lawyers. In the Slate package, Slahi d...
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While we are on the subject of Mark Mazzetti’s The Way of the Knife, and for that matter while we are speaking of Mali, check out this Washington Post report on U.S.