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I keep meaning to write a blog post on the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the upcoming Dubai meeting, but so many other folks are writing good analysis that it almost isn't necessary. T...
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As Ritika noted earlier today, the New York Times editorial page has renewed its call for the Obama administration to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay. (I'll take it from Ben's lack of snark that he ju...
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Welcome back. Let’s begin our monster news roundup with drones. As Matt already noted, Scott Shane of the New York Times tells us about efforts to codify drone policy in the run-up to the election, when ...
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Last week, Human Rights Watch (along with the Harvard Law School International Human Rights Clinic) published a report titled "Losing Humanity: The Case Against Killer Robots." It argues for a preemptiv...
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If you're a regular Lawfare reader and Facebook user, and you haven't yet "liked" our Facebook page, please do us---and yourself, and your Facebook friends---a favor and do so. In fact, do one better and...
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By now, I suspect, most readers will have noticed our new news ticker, which appears just below "Today's Headlines and Commentary" at the top of our sidebar. The ticker itself requires no explanation, bu...
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Sen. Rand Paul's office has been circulating the following draft amendment---which is rather different from his earlier version:
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Fourth Amendment scholar Orin Kerr has written a very important--and readably brief--law review article in The Green Bag entitled, "A Theory of Law." I commend it to all Lawfare readers who have ever had...
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Over at OJ, Chris Jenks (SMU Law) contends that US-Afghan negotiations for a post-2014 SOFA are likely in the end to come apart over the question of Afghan criminal jurisdiction over U.S. servicemembers....
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Scott Shane of the New York Times has an interesting story in tomorrow's paper:
Facing the possibility that President Obama might not win a second term, his administration accelerated work in the weeks b...
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As we all recover from Thanksgiving, I wanted to share with Lawfare readers this video. It's the trailer from a forthcoming movie entitled Veteran Nation that is being produced by Coldwater Media and a ...
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I'm not sure how I missed this last month, but Lisa Monaco---assistant attorney general for national security---gave a speech on cybersecurity and NSD's bureaucratic and substantive response to the probl...
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This has nothing whatsoever to do with national security or law. But the Washington Post this morning reprinted one of my favorite editorials written in the time I worked there---a work of sheer editoria...
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Let’s begin with some good news that came down the pike just in time for Turkey Day: A cease fire has been declared in the Israel-Gaza conflict as of 2 pm EST, reports CNN. Michael Birnbaum and Ernesto L...
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Vice Admiral (Retired) Bruce MacDonald, the Convening Authority for the military commissions at Guantanamo Bay, has filed his appellate brief in Al-Nashiri v.
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NPR and WAMU's Diane Rehm Show yesterday had a remarkably sophisticated and serious hour on the Gaza conflict. Well worth a listen for anyone who's interested in the ongoing unpleasantness there. Guests ...
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Senator Rand Paul’s rumored detention amendment got me reminiscing about S.2003, better known as the Due Process Guarantee Act (“DPGA”).
Remember this?
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Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, my friend Orin Kerr has a fascinating post on the case of US v. Stanley. It isn't strictly cybersecurity but the case itself is still worth reading.
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Big news on the Israel front. Peter Baker and Isabel Kershner of the New York Times report that Secretary of State Hilary Clinton is on her way to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Pal...
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In his response to Andrea Prasow, Ben suggests that, in continuing to object to military commissions that have been blessed by two Congresses and both the Bush and Obama Administrations, "Human Rights Wa...