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Charlie Savage has a story about a dispute between DOD General Counsel Jeh Johnson and State Legal Advisor Harold Koh over the scope of the president’s legal authority to target members of al Qaeda-affil...
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More than a month ago, U.S. District Judge Henry Kennedy denied the habeas petition of a Guantanamo detainee named Fadhel Hussein Saleh Hentif (ISN 259). The opinion was classified at the time, but has n...
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The next round in the Margulies-Heller exchange (here and here) comes from Peter:
Thanks to Kevin for his very thoughtful response. I share Kevin’s wariness about making mere membership a wa...
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The Associated Press (via The Washington Post) reports that Tunisia is sending a mission to the United States to convince the U.S. to release the five Tunisians who are still being detained in Guantanam...
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The briefing in Alsabri v.
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That is the title that the editors of the New York Times Magazine gave to an essay I wrote in reaction to former Vice-President Cheney’s book, In My Time. The thrust of the essay is that early Bush unil...
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Kevin Heller (Melbourne) writes in with a response to last night's post from Peter Margulies on the CMCR decision in Al-Bahlul:
Peter Margulies is absolutely right that I ignore the factual differences b...
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Peter Margulies (Roger Williams) takes up one of the central issues addressed in the CMCR's decision last Friday in al-Bahlul:
Material support charges in military commissions illustrate the perils of p...
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That's what Dylan Boyd pled to today. It's quite a mouthful, but if you go through it slowly it does actually prove coherent--though also good fodder for a criminal law exam.... In any event, from the ...
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As noted previously, I testified in late July before House Armed Services regarding detention policy, with a focus on the Warsame situation. I've seen received a handful of QFRs from committee members, ...
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Not a lot in the headlines the past couple of days.
Josh Gerstein at the Politico reports that the CIA is conducting an internal review of its relationship with the NYPD.
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The next episode in the D.C. Circuit’s Guantanamo detention saga: Suleiman v. Obama (Case No. 10-5292), an appeal set for oral argument this Friday before the D.C. Circuit.
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DOJ had a heck of a good run in terorrism and national security cases over the past seven days, including three sets of guilty please plus a hefty sentence in another case. The details appear below:
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Published by Oxford University Press (2011)
Reviewed by Alice Diana Beauheim
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Over at Opinio Juris, Julian Ku and Kevin Jon Heller have good commentary on the U.N. Human Rights Council's expert statement that takes issue with the earlier conclusion of the special panel appointed b...
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Please see the below Call for Papers from the William Mitchell Law Review.
Call for Papers
The National Security Issue of the William Mitchell Law Review brings together the opinions of expert commentat...
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Fordham Law School has announced that Karen Greenberg, the former executive director of the Center on Law and Security at NYU School of Law, will lead its new Center on National Security. Karen is an...
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House and Senate intelligence committees have reached a bipartisan (really, I said it) agreement to remove two provisions from the authorization bill they're considering. We shared last week the details ...
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Steve Vladeck is a professor of law (and Associate Dean for Scholarship) at American University Washington College of Law. Steve is the author of many terrific articles relating to national security an...
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Published by Cambridge University Press (2010)
Reviewed by Jennifer C. Daskal
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