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A little postscript to my note about Friday’s vote in the House, regarding military operations in Iraq: this quite critical statement, which House Armed Services Committee Chairman Howard "Buck" McKeon r...
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Over at Just Security, Steve Vladeck objects to the piece Jack, Bobby, Matt and I wrote over the weekend on Lisa Monaco's AUMF comments at the Aspen Security Forum. He argues that we are over-reading her...
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Violence and confusion rages on between Israel and Gaza. Apropos of the latter, accounts differ as to whether and to what extent Israeli Defense Forces have taken responsibility for the shelling of a U.N...
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Nowadays figuring out what sort of post-2001 AUMF authority the White House wants is a bit of a tea leaf-reading exercise. Potentially relevant to it are the events of last Friday concerning the 2002 AUM...
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Six months ago today, I wondered aloud on this blog when President Obama might nominate a new Legal Adviser. At that point, the position had been vacant for over a year since Harold Koh stepped down in...
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While Lawfare readers have been focused on other parts of the world, federal appellate courts have recently issued two significant, and potentially conflicting (in result, if not reasoning), decisions in...
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Ellen Nakashima at the Washington Post reports that four U.S.
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Josh Gerstein of Politico reports that "[a] top White House official suggested Saturday that Congress pass new legislation to support Pre
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Editor’s Note: The Middle East makes strange bedfellows, and one of the oddest pairings is the de facto alliance between Iran and the United States in Iraq. Across the border in Syria, Iran and the Unite...
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Today’s Washington Post piece by Ellen Nakashima speaks of "going dark"---or the "growing gap between the government’s legal authority and its practical ability to capture communications." The article h...
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Last week, Professor Fernando Reinares, a senior analyst on International Terrorism at the Elcano Royal Institute, delivered a talk at Brookings on his new book, entitled in English, “Kill Them! Who was ...
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As we noted last week, Lawfare recently received 501(c)(3) tax exempt status. Ben offered thanks to those who have already donated---bringing us about halfway to our fundraising goal. For those of you wh...
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That is the headline to an article in the Winnipeg Free Press, which I came across today. The piece concerns recent proceedings in Omar Khadr's (stayed) appeal before the Court of Military Commission Rev...
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Of all the revelations from the Snowden leaks, I find the NSA's subversion of the National Institute of Standards's (NIST) random number generator to be particularly disturbing. Our security is only as g...
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The violence between Israel and Hamas continues to dominate headlines today.
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The Washington Post reports of a new ruling from the military judge yesterday---which I have yet to see, and which isn't yet available on the military commissions' website. The gist:
A military judge ru...
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The release last month of the Al-Aulaqi Office of Legal Counsel memo, it turns out, was not the end of the Second Circuit litigation regarding the New York Times and ACLU’s FOIA requests for information ...
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As crises continue around the world, the Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT) Project yesterday unveiled an interactive map, which visualizes the many protests and conflicts occurring gl...
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The European Court of Human Rights ("ECHR") today handed down a pair of judgments in long-running human rights cases brought against Poland by two U.S. terrorism detainees---Abu Zubaydah and Abd Al Rahim...