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The Balkans are often held up as an example of how international criminal justice can work. After a frustrating start, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) issued a raft o...
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Hillary Clinton says Donald Trump can’t be trusted to protect U.S. national security. In Israel there’s talk of another war in Gaza. And a federal appeals court rules that the Fourth Amendment doesn’t ap...
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The first multi-defendant ISIL-related trial ended on June 3 when three young men from Minneapolis’ Somali community—Guled Ali Omar, Abdurahman Yasin Daud, and Mohamed Abdihamid Farah—were found guilty o...
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I received an email yesterday from a career Justice Department lawyer—whom I had not previously met—in connection with my recent rumination on the consequences for the Justice Department of a Donald Trum...
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The Israeli Supreme Court on Monday ordered Israel’s Foreign Ministry to disclose the names of the participants at a seder dinner hosted by the Israeli Ambassador to the U.S., Ron Dermer, in April 2014. ...
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Our guest for episode 119 is Kevin Kelly, founding executive editor of Wired Magazine and author of The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces that will Shape our Future. Kevin and I share...
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Over the weekend, VICE published a story entitled “Exclusive: Snowden Tried to Tell NSA About Surveillance Concerns, Documents Reveal.” If you haven’t read it, don’t bother. By its incendiary headline, t...
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India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi won’t be leaving Washington empty-handed. The Wall Street Journal reports that President Barack Obama and Modi announced on Tuesday that Westinghouse Electric will he...
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Israel is still roiling over Benjamin Netanyahu’s sudden replacement of Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon, a former general, with Avigdor Lieberman, a politician with no serious military experience and an un...
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Over the past fifteen years, an uneasy trans-Atlantic equilibrium between U.S. law enforcement and security agencies’ collection of personal information, sometimes on a bulk basis, and European privacy p...
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At Foreign Policy, Keith Johnson and Dan De Luce report on a new European pushback against China's South China Sea policies:
France has thrown its hat into the acrimonious South China Sea debate, calli...
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As U.S.-backed rebels close in on Raqqa and Iraqi military forces move into Fallujah, many of the Islamic State’s foreign recruits are looking to leave instead of fight. The Wall Street Journal reports t...
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It’s Friday morning, and we’ve established that the defendants know their rights to be present but all save Ramzi Binalshibh and Ammar al Baluchi have declined.
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It was a few years ago, on a panel at American University’s Washington College of Law, that I heard Brad Berenson—who served in the White House Counsel’s office under President Bush—make an arresting sta...
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Human Rights Watch (HRW) has just released a detailed argument that International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Fatou Bensouda should seek a full investigation of the situation in Palestine. The prosec...
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The commission is called to order Thursday morning with all attorneys and the defendants accused of masterminding the 9/11 attacks in attendance. The morning session will be dedicated to hearing testimon...
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Recently, I wrote this piece warning of what Donald Trump might do to the U.S. Department of Justice. It contained the following:
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Pre-trial proceedings in the military commission case against the alleged masterminds of the September 11th attacks resume Wednesday morning, with all attorneys present but none of the accused in attenda...
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Today is the second day of this set of commission hearings. Bin’Attash and al Hawsawi are not present, though KSM, Binalshibh, and Ali are. Also present are all of yesterday’s defense counsel; apparently...
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Earlier this morning, five people were killed in an attack on a Jordanian intelligence service office at a Palestinian refugee camp near Amman.