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This story in today's Washington Post won't get the attention it would garner if it dealt with Guantanamo, but put it in the category of Very Important if True.
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Daniel Klaidman at Newsweek, whose forthcoming book on the Obama Administration's counterterrorism policies promises to be must-read material, reports that the decision has been made to go public with so...
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The Islamic militant group Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for a string of terrorist attacks that killed more than 150 people in Nigeria.
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[Update: I've revised the text here to show that the Court did not actually say a warrant is always required in such cases] What a day. Now we have a Supreme Court decision (United States v.
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Ashley Deeks (formerly senior State Department lawyer and currently a fellow at Columbia Law School) has posted to SSRN a new piece appearing in Virginia Journal of International Law, 'Unwilling or Unabl...
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I just wanted to add one point to Bobby's thorough post on the Kiriakou indictment from earlier today. As Bobby quoted from the DOJ press release:
According to the complaint affidavit, the investigation ...
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Jack just flagged the Fourth Circuit's unanimous 39-page opinion throwing out Lebron v.
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Opinion here. Commentary later, hopefully.
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Jamshid Muhtorov is under arrest, facing material support charges predicated on the claim that he swore allegiance to an Uzbekistan group known as the Islamic Jihad Union, and that he attempted to travel...
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Oh boy. Former CIA officer John Kiriakou has been arrested and charged with leaking classified to a journalist concerning interrogation at GTMO, including the identity of persons involved in interrogati...
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Writing in Salon magazine, Laura Pitter of Human Rights Watch declares that "fundamental procedural protections afforded defendants in federal courts simply do not exist in military commissions. And with...
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Journalist Shane Harris (senior writer for Washingtonian magazine and author of the well-received 2010 book, The Watchers) has written a briefing paper for the Hoover Institution's Task Force on National...
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The D.C. Circuit has batted back Mustafa Ahmed Al Hawsawi's request for a preliminary injunction to stop the new mail search policy at Guantanamo Bay. A per curiam order by a panel consisting of Judges M...
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Here it is--redactions and all. Enjoy!
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Lots to report on Afghanistan today: According to a classified coalition report given to the New York Times, NATO-trained Afghan soldiers are killing the very people who trained them at an rising rate. ...
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The last of the transcripts from the second day of the Al-Nashiri proceedings are available here and here.
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It can be found here (and Wells’s review for Lawfare can be found here.) I liked the book, which uses the dilemmas and compromises of Nuremburg as a lens for Shawcross's empathetic and fair-minded accou...
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CHIEF PROSECUTOR MARK MARTINS
REMARKS AT GUANTANAMO BAY
18 JANUARY 2012
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Published by WW Norton (2011)
Reviewed by Dana Stern Gibber
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United States v. Mahamud (D.
