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From Courthouse New Service:
Invoking the mass detention of Japanese-Americans during World War II, a federal judge on Tuesday appeared ready to uphold her injunction against the law that lets the U.S. ...
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U.S. Policy Toward Yemen
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Let’s begin with more news about Wade Michael Page, the U.S. army veteran apparently responsible for the rampage at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin over the weekend.
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A new filing yesterday, in parallel FOIA actions regarding the targeted killing program: the government's "Combined Opposition to Plaintiffs' Cross-Motions for Summary Judgment and Reply in Further Supp...
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Yesterday the NYPD unveiled its Domain Awareness System, which aggregates and analyzes existing public safety data streams (including license plate readers and video surveillance camera systems) in real ...
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I am on vacation, and blogging only minimally, so I missed this week's hearing before Judge Katherine Forrest on the plaintiff's request for a permanent injunction in Hedges. Seeing as how the argument t...
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Secretary of Defense Panetta has directed the Defense Legal Policy Board to form a subcommittee to examine "military justice in cases of U.S.
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And, you know, some related stuff - like drone strikes and security leaks.
C-Span's coverage of the speech, which Brennan gave earlier today at the Council on Foreign Relations, is here.
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Three NATO troops and at least seven other people were killed in coordinated suicide bombings in Afghanistan today.Read the Washington Post story here, and Carlo Munoz's story at The Hill, and read Matthew
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A big win for the government today in the Ninth Circuit, in a case exploring the impact of FISA's civil liability provision (50 USC 1810) on sovereign immunity. In a panel opinion written by Judge McKeo...
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Pepperdine law professor Greg McNeal, whose work Lawfare follows closely, is attending the 2012 North America exhibition of the Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (#AUVSI) in Las Vegas...
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The Justice Department today filed its response to a motion, in which certain Guantanamo detainees had challenged the Department's attempt to regulate the detainees' access to their attorneys.
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Light news day.
Stewart Baker has been blogging about the failure of the Senate to find common ground on cybersecurity issues, and now the Washington Post editorial board writes on its displeasure over ...
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Just noticed this: It seems that the Open Society Foundations has brought suit in the European Court of Human Rights against at least two Eastern European countries on behalf of suspected USS Cole bomber...
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Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, Stewart Baker wonders how much President Obama could get done with an executive order on cybersecurity---now that the legislation has failed.
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The day's lead news story is, of course, the horrific shooting in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. The alleged gunman, the New York Times reports, was Wade Michael Page, a U.S. army veteran. Details surrounding the...
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Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins gave the following brief remarks over the weekend in Chicago. If others who participated in this panel have prepared remarks, I would be happy to post t...
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I've been less than on the ball about covering the Senate Intelligence Committee's new anti-leak legislation. Here's the bill text. Here's a good summary by Steve Aftergood over at Secrecy News.
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The Washington Post has an editorial today -- entitled "Laughing STOCK" in today's print editions -- criticizing the STOCK Act's internet publication mandate for executive branch financial disclosure for...
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This is the first in a series of posts I will be doing over the comings weeks based on a set of interviews I am conducting with people who have expertise of interest to Lawfare readers--but from whom we ...