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This week, Ben announced the upcoming Triple Entente Beer Summit, a “live taping extravaganza” featuring the cast of characters behind the Lawfare Podcast, the Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, and the Rational ...
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The speech DOD General Counsel Stephen Preston delivered today at ASIL was quite interesting on many scores, including the scope of the "associated forces" concept, the nature of America's self-defense c...
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Today at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, General Counsel of the Department of Defense Stephen Preston delivered remarks on "The Legal Framework for the United States' Use...
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... with special guest Jonathan Rauch. We talk Iran deal, congressional inaction on AUMF and 215 matters, and cybersecurity. We also tell off-color jokes.
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Perhaps of interest to Lawfare readers in the Boston area: Next Tuesday, the Harvard National Security & Law Association (NSLA) will host Brigadier General Mark Martins, the chief prosecutor for military...
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The Saudi-led coalition conducting airstrikes against Houthis in Yemen carried out its most intense series of strikes last night, Agence France-Presse reports. The strikes reportedly hit Houthi-held area...
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Last week I explained how the Obama administration might extend it constitutional arguments for disregarding statutory detainee transfer restrictions in the Bergdahl context to the restrictions on transf...
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The Brennan Center’s Liza Goitein and Faiza Patel have posted a response to my post of last week challenging three of their recommendations in their recent report on the FISA Court. This post is a brief...
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Last summer I wrote of the administration’s constitutional arguments for disregarding congressional transfer restrictions in swapping the Taliban 5 for Bowe Bergdahl:
To say that the President disregarde...
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As the details of a nuclear deal are hammered out, a case that directly implicates the American-Iranian relationship is clamoring for cert. On Monday, the Supreme Court asked for the view of the Solicito...
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been found guilty of all 30 counts charged in connection with the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings.
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For interested readers: the latest installment of the Lawfare Research Paper Series.
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The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board yesterday had a public meeting yesterday to, as its web site describes it, "discuss and vote on a proposed plan for its review of counterterrorism activiti...
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This happened. You can do that thing you want to do by clicking on this link.
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An Afghan soldier opened fire at a government compound in Jalalabad earlier today, killing one U.S. soldier and wounding at least two others, the Associated Press reports. It’s the second fatality suffer...
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Our friend Carrie Cordero has levied criticisms against three of the recommendations presented in our report, What Went Wrong With the FISA Court. We appreciate, as always, her constructive engagement wi...
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By now readers of this blog know, the United States is in the midst of a transition that will, when completed, give up its contractual control of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). That aut...
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Yesterday, I wrote about the consequences of congressional inaction over the next two months with respect to Section 215 of the Patriot Act. Today, I want to focus on another area where Congress is poise...
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Tick. Tick. Tick.
That's the sound of time slipping away before the June 1 sunset of the Patriot Act 215 provision. We're now within two months of the sunset. Congress does not seem to be bestirring its...
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