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Breaking news this morning out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where Chairman Bob Corker (R-TN) and ranking Democrat Benjamin Cardin of Maryland have reached a compromise on a bill that will g...
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The Hill is reporting this morning that Republican congressional leaders have declared the President's AUMF proposal dead:
President Obama’s proposal for the use of military force against the Islamic Sta...
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This morning’s New York Times has an excellent article outlining the debate over Senator Corker’s Iran deal oversight bill---likely heading for mark-up tomorrow.
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In preparing for a lecture that I need to give that includes a discussion of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, I once again came across the (true) claim that the FISA court (FISC) denies only a ...
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The Associated Press reports two U.S. drones killed two leaders of al-Qaeda’s South Asia branch earlier this year in Pakistan.
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The New York Times this morning has a story on the internal debate within the administration over whether to capture or kill a U.S.
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Editor’s Note: It’s payback time. As Saudi Arabia goes to war in Yemen, it is calling in favors, with Egypt and other allies joining Riyadh’s “alliance” against the Houthis, whom the Saudis see as anothe...
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When Oula Abdulhamid Alrifai was just shy of 19 years old, she fled her hometown of Damascus, Syria with her family; her parents were facing death threats from the Bashar Assad regime. She came to Washin...
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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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