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We don't review our own books here on Lawfare--not even if we happen to be Lawfare's book review editor. But I sat down the other day with Ken Anderson to discuss his wonderful new book, Living With the ...
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Ellen Nakashima and Jon Cohen report on a recent Washington Post poll on cybersecurity reform. Some numbers: 39 percent of Americans favor a government mandate for specific standards in U.S.
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As both Wells and Ben noted previously, there are renewed signs of interest in the fate of military detention in Afghanistan, in the form of an NPR story by Quil Lawrence and an order that same day from ...
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Raff has noted in recent posts some of the conservative opposition to the U.N. Law of the Sea Convention. But the treaty is supported by many senior Republican officials. Last Thursday all of the livin...
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Raff pointed earlier to a USA Today op-ed by Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas), the Vice Chairman of the House Armed Services committee.
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The Associated Press, via Fox News, has another intriguing excerpt from Dan Klaidman's Kill or Capture: The War On Terror And The Soul Of The Obama Presidency. The book is shaping up to be a must-read f...
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I have resisted linking to the latest updates to Bobby, Larkin, and my paper--The Emerging Law of Detention 2.0: The Guantanamo Habeas Cases as Lawmaking--because the redesign of the Brookings web site t...
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She gets the following message from Gmail, and you do not:
Your account could be at risk of state-sponsored attacks
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U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest has issued this order clarifying the broad scope of the injunction in her earlier opinion striking down Section 1021 of the NDAA. The order does not rule on the gove...
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Wells shared the news yesterday that the strike reported to have killed Al Qaeda's #2 was in fact confirmed to have done so.
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You'll recall that the three-judge panel in Hamdan v.
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That's the update from the New York Times . . .
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As Wells mentioned, a recent U.S. strike in northwest Pakistan may have been aimed at Abu Yahya al-Libi, Al Qaeda's #2.
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The ACLU has filed its reply brief in the D.C. Circuit in its FOIA case against the government, which seeks information about CIA use of drones for targeted killing. I have discussed this case briefly ...
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According to the New York Times, Al-Qaeda's deputy commander, Abu Yahya al-Libi, was the target of a recent drone attack in Pakistan's tribal belt. It is unclear whether he survived the attack.
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This morning, National Public Radio ran this story, which Wells linked to earlier, noting that the concern that the United States was recreating Guantanamo at Bagram:
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This morning's Supreme Court orders list makes no mention of the unresolved petitions in several Guantanamo-related cases. That means a re-listing for the justices' conference this Thursday.
Stay tun...
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The news round-up might well be divided into three groups: "drones," "cyber," and "everything else."
First with the drones.
Coverage and commentary naturally followed two big reports from the world of ...
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* A DC Circuit panel has issued an opinion giving the State Department four months maximum to make a final decision on PMOI’s petition to revoke its status as a designated foreign terrorist organization....
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I awake this morning to two important stories in The Onion.
First, there's this must-read: