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Here it is ... this version is dated November 21, 2012, so it seems to be the current iteration: White House Draft Executive Order (Dated 11-21-12). Analysis to follow .....
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[Updated 3:08 p.m] Last night, the Senate approved Senator Dianne Feinstein's amendment (No.
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Courtesy of Todd Ruger from the National Law Journal, it appears that D.C. Circuit Chief Judge David Sentelle will be taking senior status as of February 12, 2013. That will reduce to seven the total num...
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At this hour, Pentagon General Counsel Jeh Johnson is giving the following speech at the Oxford Union in England:
“The Conflict Against Al Qaeda and its Affiliates: How Will It End?”
Jeh Charles Johnson...
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The Obama administration has threatened to veto the NDAA if it contains provisions that continue to restrict transfer or Guantanamo detainees into the United States or to other countries, and NSC spokesm...
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A significant amount of hysteria has greeted the World Conference on International Telecommunications (“WCIT-12”), which will be held from next Monday until December 14 in Dubai. A casual reader of the ...
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Here's the Obama Administration's statement of policy regarding the Senate's version of the NDAA for FY2013. The document begins as follows:
The Administration appreciates the Senate Armed Services Com...
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As Ben mentioned, there has been a landslide of coverage about this GAO report, released yesterday by Senator Dianne Feinstein, on housing Guantanamo detainees in the United States.
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You want 'em? We got 'em.
Here are some more counterterrorism-relevant amendments to the Senate's version of NDAA 2013---all offered by Senator Sessions: Nos. 3009 (conditioning the availability of ce...
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Lots of news coverage this morning about this GAO report, released yesterday by Senator Dianne Feinstein, on housing Guantanamo detainees in the United States. Here's Spencer Ackerman of Wired Danger Room.
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You can probably tell that I'm catching up on my reading tonight! My other offering is this fascinating article on The Hackers of Damascus. For those who are warriors in our readership, the article off...
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Readers will recall our earlier discussion of the House Intelligence Committee report that called two Chinese companies, Huawei and ZTE threats to American information security. Well, it hasn't taken lo...
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Apropos of the amendment proposed by Senator Feinstein and others, and tonight’s NDAA discussion in the Senate, here’s a quick review of S. 3254, the NDAA 2013 bill that the Senate Armed Services Committ...
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Senator Dianne Feinstein---along with Senators Lee, Coons, Collins, Paul, Lautenberg, Gillibrand, and Kirk---have introduced this amendment to the current NDAA, now on the Senator floor.
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Tal Kopan of Politico reports that a coalition of human rights and civil liberties organizations---including our friends at the ACLU, Amnesty International, CCR, and HRW---have sent this letter to Presid...
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What’s a habeas petitioner to do, if 1) current and former U.S.
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Peter Margulies of Roger Williams School of Law, writes in with the following preview of the coming Tarek Mehanna appeal.
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Jennifer Steinhauer of the New York Times reports on the breakup of the Senate’s “three amigos”---John McCain, Joseph Lieberman, and Lindsey Graham---with Sen. Lieberman set to retire at the end of this ...
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For reasons we have not yet been able to determine, Lawfare has been down for the past few hours---since right around 10:52 am. Our apologies for the interrupted access to the site. For those of you who ...
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Speaking of autonomous weapons systems, which Matt and Ken and Human Rights Watch all were, the Department of Defense has issued a directive entitled "Autonomy in Weapon Systems." It declares:
It is DoD ...