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Professor Jeff Kahn (SMU Law, also visiting at W&L Law) writes in with the following guest post on yesterday's no-fly list decision. Be sure to check out Jeff's terrific book on the right to travel and ...
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Iraq continues to dominate today’s headlines. Reuters indicates that early this morning, insurgents laid siege to one of Iraq’s largest air bases.
Meanwhile, the Associated Press reports that about half...
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You've likely heard the news, made earlier this morning by the opinion in Riley v. California.
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Earlier this morning, we featured a post regarding key developments in the Mohamud criminal case in Oregon.
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There's a lot to discuss about the OLC memo on the al-Aulaqi strike---including, as Ben mentioned yesterday, the origins and significance of "imminence." (There's also excellent analysis over at Just Se...
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This week in NSA: The House passes an NDAA amendment to regulate “secondary” searches of 702 data, and the prize for Dumbest NSA Story of the Month Award goes to Andrea Peterson of the Washington Post fo...
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Coincidentally, they come to us from two different federal judges in the District of Oregon.
The first decision concludes that remedial mechanisms associated with the so-called "No Fly" list violate due...
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On May 27, a unanimous Supreme Court---to little notice from just about anyone---handed down a case called Plumhoff v. Rickard, which dealt with a police shooting and a claim of excessive force during a ...
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Civil strife and bloody violence rage on in Iraq.
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Apologies for Shameless Self-Promotion, but I wanted to mention an essay of mine that came out a couple of months ago as part of an excellent symposium on the work of Harvard Law School's comparative law...
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I have this feeling that a lot of people are going to mischaracterize the just-released OLC memo on the Anwar Al-Aulaqi strike. Just a guess. So before expressing any opinions on the subject or arguing w...
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The Second Circuit has just released a redacted version of the OLC Drone Memo--here is the memo; here is the panel's full, revised April 21, 2014 decision with the memo appended at page 67.
You'll recal...
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Cyber Attack on Hong Kong Among Largest Ever. "The online voting platform for the unofficial referendum now underway on Hong Kong’s political future has been subjected to one of the most severe cyberatt...
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I yield to nobody in my capacity to be surprised by Congress, but sometimes even I get a bit of a shock. I totally get the idea that everyone is angry at the NSA. And, indeed, I've spoken publicly abou...
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This morning, the New York Times cites recent Western officials and experts who have indicated that Iraq's military forces are "combat ineffective" and its leadership is crippled by corruption. In an int...
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Eli Lake and Josh Rogin have a revealing story entitled Obama Flips on Immunity for U.S. Troops. It begins:
President Obama pulled U.S. forces out of Iraq in 2011 because he couldn’t get Iraq’s parliame...
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Last week the House of Representatives passed its version of the Defense Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2015, H.R. 4870, with a series of amendments with major implications for national security poli...
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As I read Ben’s, Jack’s, John’s Steve’s and Wells’s posts, I come away with the impression that there is unanimous agreement at Lawfare that Abu Khattala (a) cannot be sent to Guantánamo for further inte...
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Editor’s Note: “People power” has long captured the hearts of Western publics, with images of brave protesters standing up to tyrants renewing our faith in how extraordinary ordinary people can be. Yet e...