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Some years ago, I happened to be in London mid-November and had lunch with a dear friend, my long-time editor at the Times Literary Supplement. I noted he wore a small felt flower--a poppy, I realized--i...
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The question on everyone's lips is whether the United States will use force – most likely air strikes -- in Iraq to help suppress the threat posed by ISIS. Jack, Wells, and Bobby discussed here, here, a...
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Editor’s Note: The carnage in Syria is a nightmare for the country’s neighbors, saddling them with huge numbers of refugees, riling up public opinion, and creating a risk of terrorism. Turkey, one of Ame...
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On Tuesday, at the 2014 Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference, a panel of experts debated the pros and cons of adding outside lawyers to litigation before two tribunals at the heart of the NSA survei...
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Renewed trouble in Iraq dominated this week’s headlines. Jack remarked on the growing threats to U.S. interests and considered how we might try to combat Islamist terror groups.
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I explained yesterday why I believe the administration has a straightforward argument for relying on the 2002 Iraq AUMF if it chooses to use force against ISIS in Iraq. (Bobby and Wells disagree, and th...
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Today President Obama ruled out sending ground forces back into Iraq, but he pointedly did not rule out the direct use of U.S. air power in kinetic operations against ISIS. The President explained that h...
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Jack's reading of the 2002 AUMF is more than plausible. And I wouldn't be surprised if the executive branch adopted that reading, in searching out a statutory basis for military action against ISIS.
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Ben posted the video of his remarks and the short Q and A that followed.
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Here it is:
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The other day, I linked to the first two contributions to Cato Unbound's forum, “The Snowden Files: One Year Later.” Now Carrie Cordero has added an essay, which opens:
There is no
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Following up on a parenthetical near the end of my last post, the 2002 Iraq AUMF states in part: “The President is authorized to use the Armed Forces of the United States as he determines to be necessar...
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The march of ISIS across Iraq (and in Syria), and the Obama administration’s scramble to react to it, and the new round of drone strikes in Pakistan, and continuing and growing Islamist terrorist threats...
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All eyes are on Iraq as we head into the weekend.
The New York Times reports that insurgents are continuing to press towards Baghdad, and that Iraq's highest-ranking Shiite cleric has asked Iraqis to as...
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A few items that caught my eye:
FCC unveils new regulatory paradigm -- "In recent months, the Federal Communications Commission has quietly worked to expand its role among federal agencies charged with ...
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"Greetings from the Chinese Embassy." That's how the email opened. It was an invitation to lunch (or tea) with a counselor in the embassy to discuss cybersecurity. How could I say "no?" So I went to ...
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The breakdown of Iraq dominates today’s headlines. Yesterday, insurgents from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) captured the cities of Tikrit and Samarra, located just 70 miles from Baghdad.
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Yesterday’s HASC Committee Hearing (video here) on the Bergdahl swap was pretty eventful. At least two important legal issues were discussed: the legality of not notifying Congress about the swap, and t...
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Among the issues separating the American understanding of international law regarding transnational non-state actor armed groups from that of the "international community" (or at least an influential and...
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The Cato Institute is hosting an online exchange entitled "The Snowden Files: One Year Later." The lead essay, by Cato's Julian Sanchez, opens as follows:
America’s first real debate about the 21st cent...