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As Ben noted the other day, the Obama administration issued a signing statement on the new NDAA arguing that its Guantánamo detainee-transfer restrictions are unconstitutional as a violation of the separ...
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Last night, former DOD General Counsel Jeh Johnson was on the Rachel Maddow Show, discussing the war on terror, detention, and how the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, proceeded. Warning: the clip includ...
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Andrew Kent writes in with the following guest post on his fascinating new article on Ex Parte Quirin. I asked Andrew to write up this piece, after reading an earlier draft of the underlying paper for a ...
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For the first Friday in January, it's quite a prolific news day.
The New York Times published this editorial on the FOIA case that it and the ACLU just lost in the Southern District of New York.
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Andrew Kent (Fordham University School of Law) has posted a new paper to SSRN, "Judicial Review for Enemy Fighters: The Court's Fateful Turn in Ex Parte Quirin, the Nazi Saboteur Case." (66 Vanderbilt L...
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Published by Oxford USA (2012)
Reviewed by John Harrison
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Ever caught a U.S. citizen you suspected of terrorism, and not known what to do with him? We have an app for you.
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If you do, perhaps you might also be willing to buy a cyber certificate from TURKTRUST.INC.
TURKTRUST is a certificate authority. That means that it is authorized to issue certificates which tell you t...
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Maulvi Nazir, a top militant commander for the Taliban was killed in a drone strike in Pakistan today.
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The aphorism is a commonplace – if you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is to stop digging. I sometimes wonder if our cyber developers understand that problem.
Today’s case in point is th...
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Eric Posner and Alan Sykes have a new book entitled Economic Foundations of International Law. The book does what its title suggests: gives a comprehensive rational choice account of public internationa...
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Told you so. President Obama has signed this year's NDAA--along with a meek kind of signing (whining?) statement. Here is the statement's discussion of the detention-related provisions--an account of whi...
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It’s that time of year…time for my annual round-up of national security-related offerings at the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools, which occurs in New Orleans this coming weekend...
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As Raffaela posted earlier, the government has won a substantial victory in the FOIA litigation in which the Times and the ACLU sought disclosure of information about CIA drone strikes, including the leg...
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Judge Colleen McMahon of the District Court of the Southern District of New York has granted summary judgment to the government in the consolidated FOIA cases brought by the New York Times and the ACLU. ...
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And we're back.
Craig Whitlock writes in the Washington Post about the Obama administration's use of rendition---a matter about which Steve and Matt have already offered thoughts.
The Taliban i
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Steve has already noted (and critiqued) this Washington Post story about continued “renditions” by the United States government.
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Gregory S.
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Under the snazzy headline "Renditions continue under Obama, despite due-process concerns," today's Washington Post has a long article on the overseas arrest, detention, and subsequent criminal indictment...
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Bryant Walker Smith (a fellow at Stanford's Center for Internet and Society) has authored a new CIS White Paper on whether self-driving cars are, or can be, legal in the United States. His answer is ......