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One of the most engaging contemporary debates is about the efficacy and utility of encryption as a means of protecting privacy. I’ve written, in the past, about how encryption works and about the growing...
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In August I described a politically palatable AUMF against the Islamic State (IS). What was politically palatable in August is not necessarily politically palatable after three months of air strikes, ho...
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Earlier on Lawfare, I wrote about the outcome of the Chinese government’s Fourth Plenum---a key meeting of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party which wrapped up about two weeks ago.
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Yesterday, President Obama announced that he plans to seek new Congressional authorization for the ongoing military campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
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Attorneys for Ammar al-Baluchi, one of the five men accused of plotting the 9/11 attacks, said the following today in a statement:
WASHINGTON, DC-Today, the legal team representing Ammar al Baluchi submi...
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Hey GTMO fans: the estimable Matt Danzer's digests of yesterday's hearing in this capital Guantanamo military commissions case can be found below, and in our "Events Coverage" section.
Keep an eye on th...
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The commission returns from recess and prepares to consider AE 284 and 284L, a defense motion and supplement seeking to allow Al-Nashiri to hold supervised Skype calls with his elderly parents.
Before t...
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Military judge Vance Spath opens Wednesday’s motions proceedings with AE 181G, a defense request to reargue the underlying defense motion to remove the possibility of the death penalty for Al-Nashiri if ...
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It...is...on. At a press briefing today, President Obama declared three legislative priorities for the lame-duck Congress in the weeks ahead. One is to get an AUMF for ISIS:
Second, I'm going to begin en...
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Those of you interested in the organization of the Intelligence Community may recall a major initiative launched by the Defense Intelligence Agency, in 2012, to expand the size and focus of its HUMINT co...
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The only holiday devoted to celebrating the failure of non-state actors to destroy the symbols and institutions of state power.
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The result is no surprise: Republicans now control both houses of Congress---or, at least, they will come January. I'll leave it to others to dissect how we should understand last night's electoral resul...
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Our guest is one of the most highly regarded cybercrime prosecutors in the country - John Lynch, the Chief of the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) in DOJ's Criminal Division. Amo...
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First of all: Happy Guy Fawkes Day from all of us at Lawfare.
4 years after the 2010 Republican wave, Democrats across the country got shellacked again yesterday.
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Below you’ll find a recap of yesterday morning’s argument in Klayman v. Obama.
A three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit yesterday considered a key challenge to the NSA’s bulk collection from telephone c...
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A little programming note here, y'all: today marks the first of a two-day, pre-trial hearing in the military commission case of United States v. Al-Nashiri. But Lawfare unfortunately won't be in the hou...
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That takes the count down to 148 detainees at Guantanamo. Here's the story from the Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg:
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba A Kuwait aircraft lifted off from this remote Navy bas...
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Brig. Gen. Mark Martins' remarks on the two-day pre-trial session, which commences today, can be found here. (Note that the hearing will proceed, despite the pendency of the United States' appeal of the...
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It's Ben's birthday, and a very kind person sent over this excellent story in Slate as a present.
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A very interesting development today with respect to the ongoing effort to complete the shut-down of US-administered military detention in Afghanistan:
As you may recall, we have long since ceased holdi...