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As Raffaela noted earlier today, there appears to be some momentum gaining for the proposed Whitehouse-Kyle compromise legislation on cybersecurity -- at least if a letter from Senators Snowe and Warner ...
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Senators Olympia Snowe and Mark Warner have written a letter to Senate leaders urging them to move a compromise cybersecurity bill. Brendan Sasso of The Hill tells us that the letter appears to be a "nod...
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Now available: the 9/11 defendants' joint reply to the "Government's Response to Motion to Cease Psychological Dislocation Techniques And Denial of Detainees' Right to Dress in the Clothes of Their Own C...
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A few days ago, the New York Times editorial page made a remarkable claim: "In the 19 [Guantanamo habeas] appeals [the D.C. Circuit] has decided, the court has never allowed a prisoner to prevail." As I ...
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One of the more obscure habeas cases of the last few years has been El Falesteny v. Obama. The case's key documents were sealed, both on appeal to the D.C.
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Maj. Gen. Salim Ali Qatn, a Yemeni senior commander, was assassinated in a suicide bombing attack this morning. Laura Kasinof in the New York Times has the story.
Late on Friday came the announcement th...
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As Paul noted, and many news outlets have reported, the Department of Homeland Security yesterday issued criteria regarding the enforcement of immigration statutes in certain cases. Now Rep.
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Today's report includes the boilerplate-for-such-documents "consistent with the War Powers Resolution" phrase. It also includes the excerpt below regarding counterterrorism efforts in Yemen and Somalia:...
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Shane Harris at Washingtonian writes on the government's leak investigations, arguing that the government "is pursuing leaks, and leakers, because it can." Meanwhile, CNN reports on Senator John McCain's...
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Ken posted as a Reading sometime back Ashley Deek's new article in the Virginia Journal of International Law, ‘Unwilling or Unable’: Toward an Normative Framework for Extra-Territorial Self-Defense.
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The following is the speech I gave at the MILOPS conference in Singapore on Monday.
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The Department of Homeland Security today announced a new policy on immigration enforcement. In summary the policy will allow the exercise of discretion by the Executive Branch to defer action, on a spe...
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This is the first of three speeches I recorded in Singapore at the Pacific Command's Military Operations and Law Conference. I don't normally post podcasts in rapid succession, but I will be releasing th...
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You'll recall that three 9/11 defendants earlier responded to Judge Pohl's inquiry regarding separate trials for each of the five accused.
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I actually don't have much to say, now that it's here, on the New York Times editorial on the detention case cert denials.
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Kind of interesting that military commission defense lawyers insist that the defendants should be able to wear the clothes of their choice but that female prosecutors should cover up.
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The New York Times Editorial Board heard Ben's plea for an editorial about the Supreme Court's decision to deny habeas review to seven Guantanamo Bay detainees--and they have responded! Check it out here.
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Craig Whitlock has a very interesting piece in the Washington Post today, the main thrust of which is to describe the military's efforts to establish aerial surveillance capacity across wide swaths of Af...
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Have you heard of the "Switchblade" UAV? In brief, it is a man-portable UAV that a soldier in the field can launch in mortar-like fashion, obtaining beyond-line-of-sight surveillance (with video and GPS...
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Not quite pret-a-porter?
Various media are reporting on the recently released motion by the 9/11 defendants, who desire to