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Now available: a six-strong batch of
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I knew this was coming. Just not this soon. The Navy is sending a 3D printer to sea. It's a small step: "The crew has been making everything from disposable medical supplies (think plastic syringes), ...
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To close out the unclassified portion of the afternoon session, the court hears argument on AE231-234, all defense motions to dismiss charges for multiplicity.
The defense first raises AE231, seeking di...
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What follows is rank speculation. It is teasing out a trend from some isolated facts and it may well be completely in error. But, that having been said, the tea leaves tell me that the future holds a f...
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The military commission at Guantanamo continued pre-trial motion litigation in United States v. Al-Nashiri yesterday and today. We will be digging through the transcripts to provide summaries of key moti...
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Ukraine and Russia are moving closer to a direct armed confrontation, following, as the Washington Post puts it, “tit-for-tat military movements.” Several pro-Russian militants were killed by Ukrainian f...
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We now know the shocking truth. The FBI has successfully exploited a software vulnerability to obtain access, through recruited hackers, to networks operated by the governments of Brazil, Pakistan, Nige...
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We begin with foreign affairs: Israel just halted peace talks with Palestine, reports the Associated Press. The move comes as a response to the unity pact signed by the PLO and Hamas yesterday evening, i...
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I have a new forthcoming article that may be of interest to readers: The Fourth Amendment and the Global Internet, forthcoming in the Stanford Law Review. Here's the abstract:
This article considers h...
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The court begins the afternoon session with quick consideration of one more defense discovery motion, AE226, seeking exculpatory information from a case in the Southern District of New York pertaining to...
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On Monday, a three-judge Second Circuit panel ordered the Obama administration to disclose a redacted copy of the Office of Legal Counsel memorandum outlining its legal justification for the targeted kil...
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The court returns from recess to consider two defense discovery motions, AE224, seeking information surrounding the facts and circumstances of the death of Abdul Aziz Bin Attash, and AE225, requesting fi...
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Next up is AE223A, a government response to a defense request that Judge Pohl authorize ex parte letters rogatory---essentially letters from the court to a foreign government seeking assistance in obtain...
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Picking up on the tail end of Tuesday's arguments on capital punishment, the prosecutor CDR Andrea Lockhart says that the government is ready to argue AE212, a defense motion seeking to strike the prosec...
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As Wells mentioned earlier today, we will be in transcript mode for the remainder of this week's pre-trial motions proceedings in United States v. Al-Nashiri.
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Big news over at the Department of Homeland Security. Now in its 11th year, the Department continues to be operationally disaggregated into its component parts, with little of the cross-cutting economie...
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Our guest for Episode 16 of the Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast is Alex Joel, and he gets plenty of tough questions: Is it a violation of the new Obama administration policy directive for the intelligence commu...
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What follows is a quick recap on the status of FISA transparency reporting (most of this was news in late January but is summarized here with some useful links) along with a couple of observations on wha...
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A little reminder, for the military commissions-inclined and from Lawfare HQ: for the rest of this week, Lawfare unfortunately won't be almost-live-blogging pre-trial motions litigation in United States ...
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Catherine Tucker, the Mark Hyman Jr.