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Whoa.
Remember the Chief Prosecutor's tactical recommendation to pull standalone conspiracy charges in the 9/11 case---in light of the D.C.
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I have an op-ed in today's Washington Post entitled (in the print edition) "Aiding Syria: Easier said than done" in which I describe some of the international legal obstacles to intervening in Syria. H...
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The raid earlier this week on the Algerian natural gas facility is being tied to Mokhtar Belmokhtar, an Algerian terrorist. His nicknames include “the Prince,” “the one-eyed,” and perhaps most frustratin...
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It's that time of year again...Duke Law's Center on Law, Ethics and National Security's Annual Conference.
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Peter Margulies of Roger Williams School of Law writes in from The Hague with the following account of the Boundaries of the Battlefield symposium he has been attending there:
Although some members of Co...
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Remember that order, in which the military judge denied a defense request to presume the Constitution's application in the 9/11 case? The ruling wasn't available earlier---it hadn't yet cleared securit...
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The day’s top news story is that Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb militants have taken at least seven U.S. citizens hostage, in a takeover of Alergia's In Amenas gas field. SecDef Leon Panetta has called...
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Columbia Law School scholar and former State Department lawyer Rebecca Ingber has posted to SSRN a new article forthcoming in the Yale Journal of International Law, "Interpretation Catalysts and Executiv...
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There was an attack today on the headquarters of Afghanistan's intelligence agency. At least one person has been killed, say Kevin Sieff and Sayed Salahuddin of the Washington Post.
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This is interesting.
Judge James Pohl yesterday denied---without prejudice---a key motion to dismiss (AE 104) brought by lawyers for Abd al Rahim Hussayn Muhammad al-Nashiri.
In summary, the defense ha...
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Rezwan Ferdaus, a 26-year-old U.S.-born citizen of Bangladeshi origin, was arrested in September 2011 for plotting to attack the Pentagon and the Capitol Building with remote-controlled model airplanes c...
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I have added several new feeds to the Lawfare News Feed:
The Washington Post's national security feed;
The Long War Journal;
The
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The WSJ reports that U.S. banks “are pressing for government action to block or squelch what Washington officials say is an intensifying Iranian campaign of cyberattacks against American financial instit...
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Judge James Pohl apparently has rejected the defense's bid, in the 9/11 case, to presume (subject to rebuttal) the Constitution's application to military commission proceedings.
We don't have the court'...
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Pakistan’s Supreme Court has ordered the arrest of the country’s prime minister, Raja Pervez Ashraf, over allegations that he took millions of dollars in kickbacks during the construction of two electric...
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Lawfare readers might be interested to follow a Volokh Conspiracy online debate between Lawfare senior contributor/NYU professor Rick Pildes and Volokh blogger/Georgetown professor Nick Rosenkranz on whe...
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The Sunday NYT story on the French intervention in Mali noted that the United States had long trained Mali forces but had also long believed that “a Western assault on the Islamist stronghold could rally...
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Tom Malinowski of Human Rights Watch writes in with the latest salvo in our ongoing debate about robots with autonomous firing power---in a post that, I'm afraid, sets a new standard for multi-media gues...
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An informed observer in the executive branch writes in response to Bobby and my post of earlier today on Eric Holder's decision to continue the appeal in Al Bahlul:
Let me offer for your consideration an...
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Reported on Friday by the Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg: defense attorneys in United States v.