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The New York Times has this story by Charlie Savage, amusingly titled "State Dept.
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This morning, my Brookings colleagues Michael O'Hanlon and Bruce Riedel held an excellent event with General Stanley McChrystal on the evolution of JSOC and his new book, My Share of the Task.
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A major story in the Washington Post over the weekend if you didn't catch it: Ellen Nakashima on the DOD's ramping up of Cyber Command staffing, increasing by more than four-fold the size of the command.
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You'll find a copy here. The Chief Prosecutor's statement naturally overviews the week's proceedings; one portion, however, addresses an issue not formally included on the docket but likely of interest t...
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The parties return, the defense having debated and then chosen a procedure for litigating AE80, regarding the preservation of evidence of any existing detention facility. Before we really learn from KSM...
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We’re back from lunch, with all parties present.
A procedural tidbit before beginning: we’re told that classified session will commence this afternoon at 3 p.m., likely in connection with motions relat...
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Alan Backstrom and Ian Henderson have a new draft working paper at SSRN, "New Capabilities in warfare: an overview of contemporary technological developments and the associated legal and engineering issu...
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The protective order, and J. Connelll III’s now-famous demonstrative slides, return to center stage. The lawyer’s subject: the protective order's definition of “unauthorized disclosure.”
The latter sug...
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We begin with AE20, regarding the time for the defense to respond to government motions. The court thinks its moot.
Bormann is back, and doesn’t touch AE20’s mootness. Instead she pushes forward with ...
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We turn to the motions set for argument on the amended docketing order---or, rather, to the order in which those motions will be argued. (The docketing order didn't do that?) It turns out that we won’t ...
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The hour arrives, and our hearing begins. There’s Judge Pohl, looking resplendent as always in his judicial robes. All five accused are present in the courtroom, though not all of their lawyers are.
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Brookings is hosting Gen. Stanley McChrystal today from 10:00 am EST-11:30 am EST. Here is the link to the live webcast. For those who cannot tune in, we will be posting the full video and the full audio...
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The fourth installment in the Hoover Institution’s series of short essays on national security challenges for the Obama administration’s second term is now out.
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The wintry mix hasn't delayed our--Wells' and Sophie's---arrival to Fort Meade, for the commencement of CCTV-broadcasted-from Guantanamo hearings in the 9/11 case.
Today's programming format will be the...
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The Brookings Institution has released the following video, in which I offer some thoughts on the accuracies and inaccuracies of Zero Dark Thirty.
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The Supreme Court recently agreed to hear an important case concerning the government’s foreign affairs powers, Bond v.
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Ben's analysis of Charlie Savage's article on the Chief Prosector prompts this reminder: tomorrow at 9 a.m., Lawfare returns to Smallwood Hall for closed-circuit, piped-in-from-GTMO hearings in the 9/11 ...
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Jack and Ben have already flagged their entries in a Hoover Institution Task Force on National Security and Law series on national security challenges for the second Obama term (Hoover is adding one essa...
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The New York Times has a news analysis piece by this morning the excellent Charlie Savage, which requires a moment's reflection. Charlie is about as good a reporter as there is out there on Lawfare-relat...
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To considerable fanfare, departing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey announced this week the decision to lift the ban on woman serving in combat units.