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Some time back, I promised that if you donated to Lawfare before year's end, each dollar of contribution would constitute a separate chance to win neato Lawfare prizes. The year having ended, Cody, Wells...
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On December 30, the outgoing Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Senator Dianne Feinstein, sent a letter to the White House.
The document---which was released earlier today---overvi...
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Bruce Schneier has two typically fine new essays on the Sony hack. The first (at the Atlantic.com) argues that “we still don’t know who’s behind” the Sony hack, and the second (at Time.com) explains why...
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A U.S. drone strike killed between six and nine suspected militants in northwest Pakistan yesterday. Reuters has the story.
The Daily Beast reveals, after obtaining an internal U.S. Air Force service me...
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There has been considerable speculation about how the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) at the International Criminal Court (ICC) might react to the State of Palestine’s move to join the ICC. Some have sugg...
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Just before the end of the year, the Palestinian Authority took steps to become party to the Rome Statute and thereby join the International Criminal Court (ICC). This is a lose-lose-lose move: it is bad...
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Editor’s Note: China’s huge population and spectacular economic growth since the 1980s at first gave rise to fears, and now a sense of inevitability, that China will surpass the United States in the 21st...
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As news broke of the cyberattack on Sony, Jack wrote of just how befuddled the US government seemed to be about how to respond. After years of thinking on cyberwar and perhaps thousands of roundtables, t...
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The Palestinian mission to the United Nations delivered documents needed in order to join the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and more than a dozen other international treaties. The Pale...
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In December, attorneys for the Guantanamo detainee filed their reply brief in the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
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At last, you have reached the final post in Lawfare’s coverage of the motions hearing portion of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri’s arraignment.
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First off, happy New Year to all our readers.
The year 2014 was a great one for Lawfare--with continued growth in readership, and development of new content streams. I honestly did not believe we would ...
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Yesterday, the Pentagon released five Guantanamo detainees to Kazakhstan. The men---three Yemenis and two Tunisians---had been approved for repatriation in 2009; none of them had been charged with a crim...
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The Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg has the scoop; apparently the five men are headed for Kazakhstan.
The Pentagon freed five Guantánamo prisoners to resettlement in Kazakhstan on Tuesday, a day after the...
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Wells already flagged yesterday's D.D.C.
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Such is the gist of Judge Richard Roberts' order, issued yesterday in the context of the high-value Guantanamo detainee's habeas case in D.C.
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Last week a Lawfare reader brought this item to our attention:
Earlier this month, the Federalist Society's International and National Security Law Practice Group hosted a Podcast with The Wall Street J...
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One day following the official end of the International Security Assistance Force’s mission in Afghanistan, the Afghan Taliban declared the “defeat” of the United States and its allies.
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A few weeks ago I wrote critically of the FBI's statement that it had “enough information to conclude that the North Korean government is responsible" for the Sony hack:
First, the evidence” is of the mo...