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The New York Times published two op-eds this weekend by former Guantánamo detainees -- one by Lakhdar Boumediene, the lead plaintiff in Boumediene v. Bush, which extended a constitutional right to the wr...
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...and his new book, Shawcross has an essay in today's Wall Street Journal, entitled "Terror on Trial." And John Yoo, also writing in the Journal, has a review of the book and of David Scheffer's All the...
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The government today filed this Opposition to a Motion for a Preliminary Injunction in the D.C. Circuit in response to filings earlier by high-value Guantanamo detainee Mustafa Ahmed Al Hawsawi. What? Yo...
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Afghan president Hamid Karzai is demanding that the U.S. hand over control of the Parwan detention facility to the Afghan government, because a politically-appointed commission found "many cases of viola...
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At one point prior to 2009, [Update: In my haste this morning, I erred by referring to 100,000 detainees in Iraq at a single point in time, when instead I meant to refer to the volume of detainees we hel...
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Last week Charlie Savage had an interesting follow-up to his well-known 2007 questions to the presidential candidates about their views on executive power. The most important line in Savage’s story is t...
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Over at Secrecy News, Steve Aftergood has posted a bunch of new CRS reports of interest to readers of this blog:
With the formal ending of the U.S. war in Iraq on December 15, 2011, the Congressional Res...
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Another slow news day.
Continuing coverage on the Taliban's plan to open an office in Qatar, the New York Times' Matthew Rosenberg and Graham Bowley report that Hamid Karzai welcomes negotiations betwee...
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The State Department announced today that the Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism has been upgraded to bureau level and renamed the Bureau of Counterterrorism (press briefing and fact sheet). ...
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Not a whole lot going today. I guess all the drones, detainees, and terrorists were busy yesterday following the Iowa caucuses. A few items worth mentioning, though.
Yesterday, Iran warned a U.S. aircra...
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Last October 2011, Harvard Law School's Richard Fallon posted to SSRN an essay entitled, "Scholars' Briefs and the Vocation of a Law Professor," which raised serious questions about the ethics of law pr...
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Lawfare readers who followed our coverage and analysis of the al-Aulaqi drone strike last fall (archived here) may be interested to see the UK House of Commons Library’s recently released research briefi...
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With all the focus on the Iowa Caucuses today, there is scant news to share, but here goes:
FoxNews.com reported over the weekend that the U.S.
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In my haste to survey the NSL-related panels at this week's AALS Annual Meeting, I missed one of the "Hot Topics" sessions--a plenary discussion of "Political Crises and Constitutionalism: War," with a s...
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For our law professor readers, I thought I'd put together a quick post summarizing the national security-related panels at this week's AALS Annual Meeting here in Washington, D.C. Four panels, in particu...
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My post from last night has given rise to an interesting debate over at Opinio Juris over Lawfare's comments policy, with Kevin Jon Heller opposing our policy and Marko Milanovic giving it a qualified de...
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Anyone who wants to understand why Lawfare does not take comments need only take a brief look at this comment thread over at Opinio Juris blasting Lawfare--and others--for not taking comments.
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Last year, at this time, I wrote a hot-headed little post objecting the signing statement President Obama issued in connection with last year's defense authorization act. This year's signing statement, w...
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Happy New Year to all Lawfare readers. Starting this month, Lawfare will be offering a new feature, which I will be editing alongside the Book Reviews. This new feature (tentatively titled just plain "...
