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I missed this week AEI's panel on Zero Dark Thirty and the reality of coercive interrogation at the CIA, though I have been meaning to watch the video.
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From Gregory McNeal via Twitter. Looks kinda cool.
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The D.C.
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Let’s begin with some of the coverage of Senator Chuck Hagel’s confirmation hearing yesterday.
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Here it is.
From the statement's discussion of Monday's break in CCTV audio and video, during remarks by KSM attorney David Nevin:
As in courts-martial, members of the Office of Military Commissions sta...
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Over at Secrecy News, Steve Aftergood has posted a new Congressional Research Service report entitled, "Integration of Drones into Domestic Airspace: Selected Legal Issues." The summary of the report, by...
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Today was the big day. Chuck Hagel faced his former colleagues who sit on the Senate Armed Services Committee today in his bid for SecDef. And just in time for this momentous day, a Republican Senator ha...
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A procedural note from commissions-land: in documents signed on Monday, the Convening Authority, Retired Vice Admiral Bruce MacDonald, dismissed sworn charges---material support and standalone conspiracy...
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Nevin at the podium. He wishes to make sure that Judge Pohl’s earlier ruling, regarding the cutting of the audio and video feed, takes effect immediately as announced. The court makes clear that no th...
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The recess concludes, and Judge Pohl takes the bench. First are a few remarks about logistics, including the use of demonstratives and multimedia. (J.
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We return to the ELC courtroom, where prosecutors and defense counsel all are present. The five accused are absent.
Prosecutor Robert Swann is first at the podium; his witness is MAJ Griffin---who test...
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The New York Times has this long article about the Noor Khan lawsuit in Britain, in which the son of a man killed in a drone strike in Pakistan has sued the British Foreign Secretary for information abou...
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A few days ago I posted a tongue-in-cheek reaction to President Obama’s inaugural address assertion that a “decade of war is now ending.” The post was a timeline of USG war-related events in the weeks b...
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Today pretrial hearings resume in the 9/11 case, yesterday's hearing having consisted entirely of an administrative Rule 802 conference (and thus, no argument on motions).
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I've fallen behind in linking to the short essays being published by the Hoover Institution Task Force on National Security and Law.
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Just on the heels of the Anonymous takeover of the US Sentencing Commission website, the New York Times is reporting that its network has been subject to persistent hacking over the last four months at t...
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That's the gist of this order, issued today by a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit, in Rimi v. Obama.
The detainee, who had been transferred from Guantanamo to Libya in 2006, unsuccessfully sought h...