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Amid all the fiscal cliff hubbub, the Senate on Friday approved, and President Obama on Sunday signed, the inelegantly if accurately named "FISA Amendments Act Reauthorization Act of 2012." The new law ...
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Kevin Jon Heller has responded to my earlier comments on his earlier post---which itself responded to my exchange with
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Benjamin Farley writes in with the following comments on my exchange with Kevin Jon Heller and Glenn Greenwald:
I just read your post responding to Kevin Jon Heller's response to your conversation with G...
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I tend to think of the Lawfare year as corresponding with the academic year, since Lawfare was born in September 2010, and its annual cycle thus corresponds roughly to the beginning of the fall semester....
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University of Pennsylvania law professor David Skeel has an important opinion piece in the December 28, 2012 Wall Street Journal on the role of religion in the US military, "The Military Balance of Faith...
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Over at Opinio Juris, Kevin Jon Heller has a piece commenting on Glenn Greenwald's and my recent discussion of the difference between the accidental killing of children with drones and the intentional ki...
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On Thursday, lawyers for Abd Al Rahim Hussein Al-Nashiri filed their reply brief in Al-Nashiri v. MacDonald, a civil case now pending before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Al-...
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From the vanguard of the revolution, reports Forbes, comes this very important effort to prevent our robot overlords from spying on us:
The city of Berkeley, Calif., this week took the first steps toward...
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Gabor Rona of Human Rights First writes in with the following comments on Eric Posner's Slate article, to which I linked the other day:
Eric Posner's dismissal of "the human rights regime" would come as ...
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Senators John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and Kelly Ayotte---who jointly filed an amicus brief in the Hedges appeal---are asking for argument time in the coming Second Circuit oral argument.
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The Washington Post has an excellent article by Sudarsan Raghavan on civilian casualties in drone strikes in Yemen and the ways in which the Yemeni government tries to mask the U.S. role in these strikes...
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Over at Slate, Eric Posner has a very interesting essay defending the Senate's recent rejection of the disabilities rights treaty—although rejecting the reasons for rejection proffered by the senators wh...
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Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta delivered a wide-ranging address on December 18, 2012 at the National Press Club in Washington DC on the United States' overall national security strategy. The speech...
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On Friday, a British court rejected a closely watched civil suit by the son of man killed in a 2011 drone strike in Pakistan that requests a judicial declaration that British intelligence officials may b...
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At this season every year, I think of the story of the Christmas truce of 1914 in the trenches of the Western Front. With warm wishes to all of of Lawfare's readers and especial thanks to those of our r...
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So what exactly is in the NDAA conference report that is prompting the agitation for a presidential veto? Here is a quick and dirty summary of "Subtitle D---Counterterrorism"---along with an explanation ...
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The Secretary of Defense has released the attached memo on the implications of the fiscal cliff and sequestration on the Department of Defense. Read it here.
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Headlines and Commentary is going on vacation for a week. There's simply too much homemade lasagne to eat and too many presents to wrap. We’ll be back after New Year’s---and will be using the snazzy Lawf...
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The government has filed its reply brief in Hedges.