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By now you've pored over last week's complaint in Al-Aulaqi et al v.
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As we have all noted, Senators Lieberman and Collins have proposed a revised version of their cybersecurity legislation. They've touted it as a compromise bill that moves closer to the middle and addres...
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Over at the ACSblog, I have a guest post up on Al-Aulaqi v. Panetta and Ben's suspicion that the lawsuit will go the way of Arar, Lebron, Doe, and Rasul--with courts holding that there should be no Biven...
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Yasir Ghazi and Rob Nordland of the New York Times tell us that today was the bloodiest day all year in Iraq, with 37 coordinated attacks killing at least 97 people and injuring more than 300.
For all t...
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Former Secretary of DHS, Michael Chertoff has this op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today, concerning Google's subversion of Safari's security settings. Here's the introduction:
In the cyber age, privac...
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I'm just going to link to it. There's some rhetoric I wouldn't use in here, but--as I said before and as Steve explained here--this is a provocative step the government has taken, and it shouldn't do thi...
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Professor Kent Roach, the Prichard Wilson Chair in Law and Public Policy at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, has written a new book, The 9/11 Effect: Comparative Counter-Terrorism, which came ou...
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Over at Foreign Policy, the mysterious author of the @drunkenpredator Twitter feed has an essay that begins:
Every morning, the hangar doors roll open and the sunlight flares my electro-optical sensors. ...
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As I noted on Friday, Senators Lieberman and Collins have released a Manager’s Amendment in the form of a substitute which reflects some significant changes to their original bill. You can access the fu...
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Laurie Blank, professor at Emory Law School and director of its International Humanitarian Law Clinic, gives Lawfare the last in the series of guest comments on Mark Mazzetti's New York Times Magazine ar...
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Here is a transcript of a July 17 event jointly sponsored by the Constitution Project and the law firm of Covington & Burling on "Boumediene's Legacy and the Fate of Guantanamo Detainees." I haven't read...
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So we learn from this filing, posted over at the Blog of the Legal Times.
The Treasury Department had found the plaintiff, a Saudi businessman, to be a "specially designated global terrorist." On the b...
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This morning, U.S.
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In response to my post contending that the United States is party to an armed conflict in Yemen pitting AQAP and the government of Yemen against one another, Daphne Eviatar of Human Rights First writes i...
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By now you likely know of the day's lead news story regarding the awful tragedy in Aurora, Colorado. A gunman by the name of James Holmes, 24, reportedly killed at least twelve people and wounded up to ...
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This op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal is part of the Administration's push for comprehensive cyber legislation. Here's a taste of his views:
It doesn't take much to imagine the consequences of a suc...
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Late last night Senators Lieberman and Collins introduced revised cybersecurity legislation. A short summary of the revised Cybersecurity Act of 2012 suggests that the major changes are 1) elimination o...
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Over at Forbes.com, the estimable Gregory McNeal has this article about a new Army manual on preventing harm to civilians.
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As I noted yesterday, the highest court in the U.S. military justice system—the Article I Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (“CAAF”), a circuit-level court with mostly discretionary jurisdiction over...
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Last week, security officials unsealed John Kiriakou's consolidated reply - in which the defendant takes on the government's opposition to his motion for a bill of particulars, and his motion to dismiss ...