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This morning's New York Times editorial contains the following interesting sentence: "He was President Obama’s national security adviser in his first term and an architect of the Obama administration’s t...
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Readers by now know this much: Senators Rand Paul and Ted Cruz harbor great anxieties about possible drone strikes against U.S. citizens on U.S. soil---chiefly against citizens who pose no imminent threa...
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I have held off for nearly 24 hours in writing up my thoughts about Sen. Rand Paul's filibuster because I was trying to think of something to say beyond that this was a dumb publicity stunt. But here's t...
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Senator Paul's nearly 13-hour filibuster over domestic drone strikes and executive authority to kill U.S. citizens included both laudable calls for transparency and increasingly absurd---even damaging an...
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Further to my last post on the capture and prosecution of Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, I now want to share a few thoughts on the prosecution side of things.
The indictment has been unsealed, and is now availabl...
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As Ritika notes below, the United States has captured a senior al Qaeda figure (Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, who was the son-in-law of Osama bin Laden), and will be bringing him to the United States for prosecut...
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According to this Talking Points Memo piece, Attorney General Eric Holder today sent another letter to Senator Rand Paul, regarding the latter's inquiries on the executive branch's authority to conduct d...
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As you no doubt already know, Kentucky's junior Senator, Rand Paul, on Wednesday filibustered John O. Brennan's nomination to be CIA Director for thirteen hours (with help, in part, from his Senate colle...
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On Wednesday, Attorney General Eric Holder appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee and, unsurprisingly, was questioned about the Obama administration’s targeted killing policy. On the subject of U...
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So reports the Wall Street Journal:
A son-in-law of Osama bin Laden and longtime suspected member of al Qaeda has been captured by U.S. officials, who are preparing to bring him to the U.S.
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Much of what passes for analysis of cyber threats these days is episodic and anecdotal. I confess, reluctantly, that despite my own best efforts I sometimes fall into that trap. I also confess that som...
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That's right... Henry V. Royal Shakespeare Company he's not, but here's the junior senator from Texas's rendition (pun intended) of the St. Crispin's Day Speech---and his explanation of how it relates to...
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The New York Times recently carried two reports by Declan Walsh about alleged drone strikes that took place in Pakistan’s tribal areas in February. The first report noted that the strikes may have been c...
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Greg Miller and Karen DeYoung have this important story in the Washington Post: "Administration Debates Stretching 9/11 Law To Go After New al-Qaeda Offshoots." It cites unnamed Administration officials...
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I don't normally---or ever, really---write posts based on law firm press releases. But I'm going to make an exception this time for this announcement by Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe about Robert Loeb:
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There is a connection between Senator Paul’s filibuster and the need for a comprehensive renewal of presidential authorities for the administration’s stealth counterterrorism tactics (i.e., the cluster o...
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In the latest twist in the long-running ATS and TVPA suit against him, former Somali Defense Minister Mohamed Ali Samantar filed on Monday for certiorari after the Fourth Circuit's surprising decision la...
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For those of our readers who are members of the Federalist Society, its next "teleforum" conference call is tomorrow at 1 p.m. (EST) on the subject of "The Use of Lethal Force on U.S. Citizens." The thre...
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Jack is certainly right that Senator Paul "is painting a misleadingly very unattractive picture of the circumstances in which the United States uses drones abroad in words that will now be played around ...
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Over at the Lawyers, Guns, and Money blog, Robert Farley has an interesting post taking me to task for ignoring the siege of Harfleur in my discussion of Henry V and the law of armed conflict. Farley quo...