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Let's begin with some cheery news that will surely brighten your Monday: The Associated Press reports that Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has been "neutralized" in Algeria. Experts say it no longer pose...
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Mark Mazzetti is a fine reporter at the New York Times and I follow his work closely on the front pages, but reading his new piece in the Sunday New York Times Magazine this week, "The Drone Zone," it se...
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I don't have a lot of patience for the endless grumbling about the heat in Washington (Yes, it's hot. Now can we talk about something interesting?), but this story--and this picture--captures something.
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The Globe and Mail has a review of two new books about the Omar Khadr case. Reviewer Terry Glavin isn't crazy about either of them, objecting to one from the Left and the other from the Right.
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Two short items involving drug cartel violence in Mexico and the related issue of US cooperation with Mexican authorities in counter-cartel efforts.
First, as readers presumably know, Mexico has just el...
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The government has filed its opposition brief in United States v.
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This month of July sees negotiations at the UN in New York on a proposed arms trade treaty. Duncan Hollis at Opinio Juris has an excellent introduction with many links.
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Mark Mazzetti has a feature in the forthcoming issue of the New York Times magazine about drones and the evolving role of the Air Force.
The Washington Post reports that Saudia Arabia is coming around!
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I have received a number of interesting responses to my post yesterday about the British institution of the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation. Clive Walker of the University of Leeds School o...
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Some time ago I began an answer to Jack Goldsmith on why I thought cybersecurity regulation was the wrong answer to our current cyber problems. Other commitments, including paying clients!, got in the w...
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Next Wednesday at 10 a.m. in 2141 Rayburn House Office Building, the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security of the House Judiciary Committee will be holding a hearing on "National Securi...
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Ben asks an interesting question about the effectiveness of the British independent reviewer. I didn't have a chance to meet Mr.
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Some important stories have surfaced in the past few days.
On Tuesday, the U.S. and Pakistan reached an agreement to reopen the supply lines along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, which have been closed...
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The other day, David Anderson, the U.K.’s Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, dropped by Brookings to talk with me about legislative proposals in Britain for a Closed Material Proceeding in ci...
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For those D.C.-area Lawfarers interested in continuing the conversation Ben, Bobby, and I had in June about Boumediene's legacy (or lack thereof), the Constitution Project is hosting what promises to be ...
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The story of the day is that the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, aka the Dronemaker Club, has released a "Code of Conduct" (the quotation marks are theirs, not added by me to incr...
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A three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit (Judges Tatel, Garland and Griffith) has rejected the CIA's motion to remand in ACLU v.
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Two think tanks -- one from China and one (CSIS) from the US have been conducting a dialogue on cybersecurity over the past several years. This joint release (English at the bottom) summarizes some of t...
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Reviewing the docket in United States v.