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Earlier this year, I published an article called "Folk International Law," in which I argued that there were many unappreciated and little understood costs to the convergence of LOAC and international hu...
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Last Monday, I had 60 followers on Twitter. Today, I have more than 4,300. Not to brag or anything, but that's more than Benjamin Wittes; more than Bobby Chesney; more than Jack Goldsmith; more than my b...
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For the two people still following the exchange between me and Peter Margulies over the bottom-side briefing in the al Bahlul D.C.
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My Brookings colleagues Daniel Byman (who is, among other things, Lawfare's Foreign Policy Editor) and Jeremy Shapiro (who is, among other things, a demon with a barbecue and a slab of meat), have a new ...
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Our guest today is Admiral David Simpson, Chief of the FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau. Admiral Simpson has more than 20 years of Information and Communications Technology experience su...
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Yesterday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced the first case of Ebola in the United States. A man who recently traveled on a commercial airplane from Liberia to Texas has been diagn...
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How much deference should Congress receive in determining when military commissions are necessary incidents of war? That’s the real nub of the dispute between Steve and amici arguing to the D.C. Circuit...
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Benjamin Weiser of the New York Times has the scoop on the plea bargain, about which U.S.
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Harold’s Koh’s grudging defense of the domestic legal basis for President’s Obama’s use of force against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria is important. It adds little new to other defenses of the Pre...
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I must confess that I don't fully understand Peter Margulies' response to my post from earlier today. My post argued that the bottom-side briefing in the D.C.
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Steve’s post arguing that the military commission conviction of former bin Laden aide Ali Hamza al Bahlul for conspiracy to murder civilians violates Article III does not do justice to the Framers’ caref...
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You read that right: Hong Kongers have found an app that allows users to communicate without using the Internet or mobile signals.
Specifically, the Firechat app utilizes Bluetooth technology to allow u...
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One day after the inauguration of Ashraf Ghani as president of Afghanistan, the United States and Afghanistan signed a Bilateral Security Agreement allowing for 9,800 residual U.S. troops to train, equip...
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So reports the Associated Press this morning.
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Jane already flagged the merits brief filed by the U.S. government on September 17 in al Bahlul v. United States, the major challenge to the power of the Guantánamo military commissions to try non-intern...
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The Office of the Director of National Intelligence recently released its 2014 Strategy Roadmap, which can be found here.
From the ODNI press release:
Director of National Intelligence James R.
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In February, Karen DeYoung and Greg Miller wrote a story in the WP about how Al-Qaeda’s then-recent expulsion of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS, now Islamic State, or IS) raised questions abou...
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You know that the political system has reached a moment of special paralysis when a standoff emerges out of agreement. Yet that is what appears to be happening with respect to the politics of authorizing...
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In a post this weekend, to which both Jack and Ben have already written responses, Glenn Greenwald suggests the Khorasan group is a "wholesale concoction" that appeared "seemingly out of nowhere" in the ...
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(Author's note: Apologies to Geoff and everyone else - I somehow managed to delete the last couple of paragraphs of this post when it went up. I'll recover them--including the part of the post that actu...