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Big Pakistan news day today. The Associated Press reports that ISAF Commander General John Allen is meeting the Frenemies today to discuss the still-at-large Haqqani network and the still-not-open suppl...
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The United States District Court for the District of Columbia yesterday granted the United States' motion to dismiss in Wahid v. Gates - a habeas case in which the petitioner had challenged his detention...
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Jessica Herrera-Flanigan certainly seems to think so and, honestly, I can't disagree with her. From the article:
Even if cybersecurity legislation does get through the Senate, there is not a clear path ...
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I thought Lawfare readers might find at once fascinating and amusing these Powerpoint slides from the Chinese presentation at the recent MILOPS conference in Singapore. They’re, uh, certainly unencumbere...
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All of us at Lawfare extend a warm welcome to Rear Adm. John W. Smith, Jr. He is the new commander of Guantanamo Bay detention center, replacing Rear Adm.
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James Connell III, a lawyer for 9/11 accused Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, has released this statement regarding residual issues related to torture and coercion. In particular, he says that he and other lawyers e...
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I missed this the other day, but it seems to me extraordinary: A former president seems to be calling the current president of his own party an assassin.
If you think that's hyperbole, read Jimmy Carter...
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Just a quick follow-up on my post of this morning. A correspondent points out to me that on David Remes's definition of "prevailing," Boumediene itself should be counted as a government win. After all, t...
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Director of National Intelligence James R.
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Last week, two defense motions were released in United States v.
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The government has filed its supplemental brief in Hamdan on the question of whether the case is moot. We shared a few weeks back Hamdan's supplemental brief on the issue. As Wells explained in that post...
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Let's begin with terrorist trial news.
The Washington Post reports that Amine Mohammed El Khalifi pleaded guilty late Friday for "attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction against federal property....
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In his response to my earlier post on the New York Times's 19-to-0 figure--which turns out, he says, to be his 19-to-0 figure--David Remes makes several interesting points worthy of comment. I wish to fo...
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The Department of Defense has unsealed Khalid Sheik Mohammed’s response to Judge Pohl’s show cause order – in which the commission had asked the government to explain why the 9/11 defendants should not b...
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One of the interesting aspects of blogging for Lawfare is that I get to try on a few new hats. For years, I have thought of myself as a lawyer and a policy analyst -- hats I get to wear every day and th...
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Habeas lawyer David Remes writes in to defend the New York Times's use of 19-to-0 as the government's win-loss record before the D.C. Circuit in habeas cases. He makes, to be honest, a better case than I...
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When we last checked in on United States v. Al-Nashiri, the docket indicated that Judge James Pohl had resolved five of the defendant’s pending motions.
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Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, the estimable John Elwood questions whether columnist Charles Krauthammer has got wrong whether the president has discretion not to deport large numbers of undocumented ali...