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I'm happy to announce a new experimental feature on Lawfare--a weekly digest of our posts. I have received a lot of complaints in recent months that during heavy-blogging weeks, Lawfare's feed can be ove...
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Charlie Savage of the New York Times shares our disappointment that the Al Nashiri military commission hearings slated for next week have been postponed.
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Now available in redacted form: the government's opposition brief and the defendant's reply in United States v. Ghailani, a criminal case arising from the 1998 bombing of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanz...
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I wonder what Ben Emmerson was thinking when he watched CNN this evening. Emmerson, the UN Special Rapporteur on Counterterrorism and Human Rights who is conducting an investigation into the legality of ...
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Let's start with big news in the Bradley Manning case. The presiding military judge, Colonel Denise Lind, ruled that in order to convict Manning on Espionage Act charges, the prosecution must show that ...
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The lawyers' reason is twofold, apparently: first, a possible lapse in the security of computer networks operated by military commission defense counsel; and second, the disclosure of privileged defense ...
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Just a few days ago, the counsel for military commission defendant Abd al Rahim Hussayn Muhammad al Nashiri filed a motion for a continuance, requesting that the four days of hearings slated for next wee...
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A while back, Jack asked a student named Samantha Goldstein to help him assemble some resources on targeted killing. The resulting bibliography has expanded over time, and we have decided to post it as a...
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The House Intelligence Committee has released a new draft of the Cybersecurity Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. I think it is fair to say that the bill is becoming increasingly more moderate as ...
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Yesterday, pursuant to Judge Thomas Hogan's recent order, lawyers for habeas petitioner Musa'ab Omar al-Madhwani filed a brief addressing the district court's jurisdiction to hear al-Madhwani's emergency...
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At the Atlantic, the New York Times' Mark Mazzetti discusses where he gets his news. Thanks for the shout-out to Lawfare, Mark!
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Peter Margulies writes in with the following summary of recent NIST efforts to build a framework for best practices in cybersecurity:
The premise of President Obama’s Cybersecurity Executive Order (EO) i...
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Mark Mazzetti of the New York Times has another feature adapted from his forthcoming book The Way of the Knife: The C.I.A., a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth.
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Ken Anderson and I have just published a new policy paper through the Hoover Institution: Law and Ethics for Autonomous Weapon Systems: Why a Ban Won’t Work and How the Laws of War Can.
Our paper beg...
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Earlier today, in Anam et. al. v.
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Let’s begin with the New York Times’s editorial board, which argues in this piece that shifting the U.S.
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Peter Margulies of Roger Williams School of Law writes in with the following thoughts on the First Circuit briefing in the Tarek Mehanna appeal:
The federal material support statute forces courts and jur...
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Brian Foster of Covington & Burling, responds to my comments on his earlier guest post as follows:
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