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What is happening in Mali to people who are captured rather than killed by French, Chadian, or Malian forces? I asked this in February, but so far as I know the question remains unanswered in the public...
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Speaking of a strange meeting of the minds over the President's press conference remarks, Dana Milbank and Maureen Dowd had basically the same reaction to President Obama’s tetchy
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Published by Penguin Press (2013)
Reviewed by Jack Goldsmith
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Developing Boston news: three additional suspects have been taken into custody in connection with the case, according to this tweet released by the Boston Police.
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On the Sunday talk shows, various members of Congress exhorted the United States to increase its assistance to the Syrian rebels, whether by providing them with additional (lethal) equipment, or by estab...
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I had an odd meeting of the minds today---with Glenn Greenwald.
After I posted my bewildered comments on President Obama's Guantanamo remarks this afternoon, I received the following email from Greenwal...
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I confess myself mystified by President Obama's comments about Guantanamo this morning. Here is what the President said---with the parts I find confusing bolded:
QUESTION: Mr. President, as you're probab...
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Forty Navy medics arrived at GTMO on Monday as the GTMO hunger strike population exceeded 100 detainees.
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Earlier this morning, President Obama conducted a news conference. The questions touched on, among other things, the closure of the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, and the detainees' ongoing hunge...
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Susan Landau, author of Surveillance or Security?
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This Washington Post article by Dana Priest is an excellent primer for those looking for an introduction to the particulars of US intelligence support to Mexico's counter-cartel activities, as well as th...
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As Raffaela has already noted, in today's Washington Post there is a fascinating story about government plans to require new cyber communications technologies to provide a means by which the government c...
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MSNBC counts the total number of GTMO detainees participating in the hunger strike at 100.
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Neal Katyal has a review of my book Power and Constraint in the Harvard Law Review. My response is here. Neal’s review basically claims that I don’t understand American separation of powers, and my res...
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Carrie Cordero, Georgetown’s Director of National Security Studies and a former Justice Department official, writes in with this piece on the Boston attacks and possible improvements to our approach to c...
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In mid-March, I noted a speech by Home Secretary Theresa May, in which she advanced the idea that the UK should consider withdrawing from the European Convention on Human Rights. As I noted then, the Eu...
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I was away when the New York Times ran its latest editorial related to national security legal issues, so I’m afraid I did not fly-speck “The Guantanamo Stain” for factual errors. No matter. It doesn’t ...
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On Monday, my Brookings colleague Bruce Riedel held an excellent discussion with Philip Mudd, former deputy director of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center and author of the new book Takedown: Inside the H...
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The Hill reports:
The head of the House Intelligence panel is worried the Justice Department may have jeopardized the public’s safety by allowing a federal judge to read the Boston bombing suspect his Mi...
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Much of this week's Lawfare commentary concerned the recently-filed case against Boston bombing suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev. But that's not all. Among other things, we noted critical developments in Guantan...