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The biggest surprise I’ve had in this job is how much time the national-security issues take. Those are the primary things that I have to deal with in a post-9/11 world. From an eight-thirty meeting ever...
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Lawfare's own Ashley Deeks (University of Virginia School of Law) has released a new article, "An International Legal Framework for Surveillance," available on SSRN and forthcoming in the Virginia Journa...
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In breaking news this morning, US Attorney General Eric Holder has announced that he will resign his office.
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That's the word from this piece by NPR's Carrie Johnson. It begins:
Eric Holder Jr., the nation's first black U.S. attorney general, is preparing to announce his resignation Thursday after a tumultuous...
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President Obama’s UN speech yesterday morning, as expected, focused heavily on transnational security issues, specifically the US-led air campaign against ISIS in Syria and Iraq. But he also touched on s...
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President Obama addressed the UN General Assembly in New York today. The Washington Post contrasts the tone of these remarks with the tone of another claim by the President som
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The Hoover Institution has released Chapter 4 and Chapter 5 of our serialized book: Speaking the Law: The Obama Administration’s Addresses on National Security Law.
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Wells, always on the lookout for new readers, does some market research in Massachusetts. At least they didn't answer, "Just Security"!
Happy Wednesday.
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[Cross-posted at Just Security]
As is now well-known, the United States last night hit approximately 25 targets inside Syria, some of which were directed at ISIL, and some at a group that has only rec...
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The newest installment in the Transatlantic Dialogue series is now posted at ICRC's Intercross blog. It is from Professor Guglielmo Verdirame, and it addresses the larger implications of IHRL's expansion...
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The Chinese Communist Party ("CCP"), already infamous for its deep censorship of internet in the People’s Republic, seems to be squeezing the web’s net even tighter.
Since coming to power, President Xi ...
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Based on comments from senior Obama administration officials who spoke on “the condition of anonymity,” Charlie Savage reports the Obama administration’s legal theory for the use of force against the Isl...
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The United States and its allies began airstrikes in Syria with a massive assault across vast swaths of the country’s airspace last night. Foreign Policy carries the story.
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Now this is interesting.
Last week, detainees Saeed Mohammed Saleh Hatim, Abdurrahman al-Shubati and Fadel Hentif together sought en banc rehearing in Hatim v. Obama, the so-called "counsel access" case...
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On Friday the government filed its response and reply brief in Klayman v.
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Jessica Schulberg, writing at the New Republic, has a good piece about the financial costs of Congress's insistence on maintaining the detention facility at Guantanamo:
In 1995, the U.S. military built ...
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Over at Newsweek, Jeff Stein wonders: "What Will U.S. Forces Do With ISIS Prisoners?"
Among the many unresolved issues in the campaign to “degrade and destroy” ISIS, as it’s generally known, is what to ...
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Over at VICE News, reporter Jason Leopold has this very interesting story about the FBI investigation of Samir Khan, the AQAP propagandist and editor of Inspire magazine, who was killed in the strike aga...
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Cato Institute scholar Julian Sanchez has this lengthy interview with a podcast called Free Thoughts from libertarianism.org on the NSA controversies.
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The Congressional Research Service has put out a new report entitled "Judicial Activity Concerning Enemy Combatant Detainees: Major Court Rulings."
The summary reads, in part:
This report discusses majo...