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That was the subject of a debate the other day put on by a group called Intelligence Squared--which was attended and summarized by Lawfare reader John Mattiace. Mattiace is an attorney practicing in New ...
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...is that of the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music--perhaps the building in the world that most resembles the towers. Built approximately ten years earlier by the same architect, Minoru Yamasaki, it...
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Unaccustomed as I am to praising the New York Times opinion pages for their handling of matters related to counterterrorism, my hat is off to them today for running as Op-Art this beautiful image, entitl...
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The U.S. Court of Military Commission Review yesterday evening affirmed the conviction and life sentence of Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman Al Bahlul, an Al Qaeda media propagandist. I have not yet read the 139-...
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A federal court in Washington ruled on Thursday that former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe enjoys residual immunity from being forced to testify as a witness in an Alien Tort Statute/Torture Victims Pr...
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Jonathan Hafetz, a habeas lawyer and law professor at Seton Hall University School of Law and the author of Habeas Corpus after 9/11: Confronting America's New Global Detention System, writes in with th...
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Bobby shared yesterday the news that John Brennan has announced (courtesy of Josh Gerstein at the Politico) that the Obama administration would not send terrorist suspects to Guantanamo moving forward.
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Check out this news story on yesterday's court appearance by Ahmed Warsame. I've hammered on the New York Times editorial page for repeatedly--and erroneously--saying that non-criminal detention takes pl...
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So says Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism John Brennan, as quoted here by Politico's Josh Gerstein. No word on whether this would be the administration's positi...
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Josh Gerstein at the Politico reports that the White House is threatening a veto of the House's intelligence authorization act, which includes language requiring disclosure of information regarding detai...
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John Rizzo, former acting general counsel for CIA, writes in with the following in connection with Lawfare's 9/11 10th Anniversary Project. This essay is adapted from a longer piece, entitled "9/11: Thre...
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Bruce Ackerman has an interesting piece at Foreign Policy this week, arguing that the “congressional resolutions authorizing combat in Afghanistan and Iraq no longer justify military operations in either...
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In the Fall of 2002, a month or so after I started work in the Defense Department General Counsel’s office, I had a chat with Rear Admiral Michael Lohr, who at the time was the Judge Advocate General of ...
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The appellant and appellee briefs for Alsabri v. Obama, a Guantanamo habeas case in the D.C. Circuit, are now available. You can read Ben's thoughts on the District Court's decision here and Bobby's thou...
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Shane Harris, senior writer for Washington magazine and author of the The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance State, writes in with the following in connection with Lawfare's 9/11 10th Anniversa...
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Astute students of Lawfare's layout may have noticed this morning that our sidebar has a new addition: An announcement that Lawfare is now a project of the Harvard Law School Brookings Project on Law and...
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My contribution to Lawfare's 10th Anniversary Project concerns the role of the military in strengthening justice institutions in countries struggling to emerge from instability, a topic on which my perso...
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Adam Liptak, in his New York Times column, writes about the state of civil liberties, ten years after September 11, while William Saletan at Slate discusses how much has changed in the way we wage war si...
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The government's brief, and the petitioner's subsequent reply brief, are available in the case of Fayiz Mohammed Ahmed al-Kandari v. United States. Al Kandari is a Kuwaiti Guantanamo detainee who is seek...
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Further to Ben's post on the new DC Circuit decision in Khan v.
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