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Tom Junod wrote in with the following in response to Ben's earlier post:
Point taken on the "lecture from the principal" criticism: you either like that or you don't, and you didn't. But I don't think y...
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Will Ali Mussa Daqduq soon be a free man? It's looking more and more likely. According to an AP report, a five-judge appellate panel in Iraq has affirmed a lower court's decision to dismiss charges aga...
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I have now had time to read Tom Junod's lengthy essay in Esquire to which Ritika linked the other day. Entitled "The Lethal Presidency of Barack Obama," it combines the form of a reported essay with a di...
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Continuing the discussion surrounding issues of personal risk and combat in relation to drone warfare (Anderson on Mazzetti, Corn, and Rona, we add this comment from Charles Dunlap, professor at Duke Uni...
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There seem to be many things habeas counsel might dislike about the proposed Memorandum of Understanding that DOJ has asked David Remes to sign. But like Ben, I’ll wait until I see the government’s resp...
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Just in time for next week's motions hearing in United States v.
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I received the following email just now--the first time in my life, and I suspect the last, that I ever been confused with a certain blogger over at Salon.com:
From: Lucas Vazquez
To: wittes.lawfare@gma...
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Gabor Rona, international legal director of Human Rights First and esteemed commenter on several Lawfare posts, sends us this further comment on the Lawfare discussion around Mark Mazzett's New York Time...
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The Washington Post has this ominous series entitled "Zero Day" on the threat in cyberspace.
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This is a wonderful piece of journalism. The Washington Post's Ian Shapira today has a long feature on one of the CIA officers convicted in Italian courts for the kidnapping and rendition of radical Egyp...
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Another development in commissions-land, apart from al-Qosi’s completion of his sentence and landing back in Sudan: the Miami Herald’s Carol Rosenberg also informs us (and the docket shows) that the 9/11...
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Let's begin with news of released terrorists.
The Miami Herald reports, as does Bobby, that Ibrahim al Qosi--Osama bin Laden's occasional driver and self-confessed Al Qaeda operative--was repatriated to...
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I received the following email from human rights lawyer David Remes about a filing he and his colleagues just made on Monday on behalf of his Guantanamo client Yasein Khasem Mohammad Esmail. Esmail lost ...
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Now here is a rare sight…a transfer out of GTMO, in this case made possible by the individual’s completion of his plea-based military commission sentence. From DOD’s press release:
Detainee Transfer Ann...
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The #2 most read story on the Washington Post's website is this gem on an April crash in Mali that killed three U.S. Special Ops soldiers and three Moroccan women.
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According to various media reports, General Stanley McChrystal suggested late last month that the United States should bring back the draft if it goes to war again, arguing that the costs of the wars in ...
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Speaking of national security issues that seemed to have dropped off of the public’s radar screen, this headline beckons the reader to an article in The Atlantic, written by Andrew Cohen and posted over ...
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Here's an interesting window into the declining salience of national security legal issues in American public life and discourse: The New York Times has a Room for Debate discussion going on right now en...
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I didn't get to attend this event today, as I am on the road, but NSA chief Gen. Keith Alexander spoke today at the American Enterprise Institute as part of this event. The video is available at CSPAN, b...
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Geoffrey Corn, professor of law at South Texas College of Law and former JAG officer and chief of the law of war branch of the international law division of the US Army, sends in the following comment on...