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Brookings Senior Fellows Kenneth Pollack, Suzanne Maloney, and Michael O’Hanlon discussed the evolving security crisis in Iraq on Thursday at a Brookings event entitled "Iraq in Crisis: What Options Does...
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The news this week was dominated by the fact that U.S. Special Forces in Libya captured the man who allegedly orchestrated the September 11, 2012 attack on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi: A...
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Back in 2006 or so, we had a great idea -- the Department of Homeland Security should do a quadrennial review, just as DOD does. Thus was born the QHSR -- the Quadrennial Homeland Security Review. The ...
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The government seems to think not, judging by New York Times coverage I noted earlier this morning. Among other things, the Times piece discusses the executive branch's thinking about Abu Khattalla's det...
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President Obama announced yesterday that the United States will send military advisers to Iraq. CNN has the details of President Obama’s announcement, and accompanying video.
It seems Congress is going ...
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I seem to have arrived late to the Abu Khattalla party. But I concur most emphatically that he should be tried in a stateside civilian court.
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Among the proposed amendments to the DOD appropriations bill currently under consideration in the House of Representatives is this doozy, courtesy of Arkansas Rep.
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Headlines on the crisis in Iraq dominate again today. In breaking news, Iraqi politicians are vying to oust Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki---with possible American support. American officials have met wi...
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President Obama will make a statement on Iraq, beginning at 1:15 p.m.
Live-streaming video and the transcript of his remarks can be found below.
THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everybody. I just met wi...
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Here it is. The text opens:
Good afternoon. Today Abd al Hadi al-Iraqi—an Iraqi national whose records indicate was born as Nashwan Abd al Razzaq in 1961 in the city of Mosul—was arraigned before a Unit...
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Various reports of the President’s meeting with congressional leaders (e.g here and here – note especially Pelosi’s comments) suggest that the administration believes that the 2001 AUMF (post-9/11) and t...
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It’s go time at the Expeditionary Legal Complex, Courtroom Two. After some shuffling of papers and adjusting of microphones, the military judge, Navy Capt. J. Kirk Waits, calls the initial hearing to ord...
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It’s refreshing to find voices of reason in Ben’s, Jack’s, and John’s posts on the Abu Khattala capture.
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This afternoon, Abd Al-Hadi Al-Iraqi will be arraigned before a military commission at Guantanamo.
As per usual, video and audio of the pre-trial proceedings will be zapped, via closed circuit televisio...
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A small earthquake happened at the end of May – a well-regarded, widely known encryption program called TrueCrypt shut its doors. For those who care about surveillance, encryption, and open-source method...
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Ahmed Abu Khattala, who allegedly lead the 2012 attacks on Americans in Benghazi and was captured recently in a secret operation by American Special Operations forces, is being held on the USS New York, ...
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I want to pile on briefly to Jack’s and Ben’s support for prosecuting Ahmed Abu Khattala in federal court for violation of U.S. criminal laws.
I have pointed out for many years that civil liberties grou...
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Our guest for the week, Paul Rosenzweig, requires no introduction on this site.
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I agree with Jack that military detention or trial by military commission are likely not available options for Ahmed Abu Khattala. But I'm hung up on a different point: Why are so many conservatives so m...
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Last week, as I noted in Bits and Bytes, the Chairman of the FCC, Tom Wheeler, gave a speech at AEI in which he claimed a role for the FCC in advancing cybersecurity.
Today, Rep. Mike Rogers threw a fla...