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SecDef Chuck Hagel has sent more American troops to assist with the recovery efforts in the central Philippines. Here's The Hill.
On Iran, the New York Times editorial today expresses the paper's suppor...
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This event took place last night at Duke's Sanford School of Public Policy.
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My friend and predecessor Edwin Williamson (who served as The Legal Adviser in the George H.W.
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Over at the Guardian today, Kenneth Roth—executive director of Human Rights Watch—argues for a worldwide human right of privacy:
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President Obama will be at Arlington National Cemetery today for the Veteran's Day wreath-laying ceremony. In his weekend radio address, the President noted that the holiday demands more than a simple th...
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Bobby drew attention to yesterday's Washington Post article about the Afghan Government's release of hundreds of detainees the U.S.
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On Friday, Steve Vladeck responded to my post from last Tuesday on how a rule of lenity could help the law of national security surveillance. Here are three replies to Steve's post:
(1) Steve argues t...
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The unwinding of US detention operations in Afghanistan continues. The latest development concerns the population of some 880 Afghan detainees whom the United States has transferred to Afghan control a...
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Over the last months, the listenership of the Lawfare Podcast has risen notably. It used to be that an episode would get about 400 downloads; that's now up to a baseline of about 1,200---and sometimes mu...
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FISA reform took center stage this week: Raffaela gave us a detailed and elucidating tour of the relevant legislative plans, players, and issues. While the two main proposals share some common ground, Be...
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On October 25, the Hoover Institution held a day-long media colloquium out at Stanford University for a group of journalists. The sessions were focused on national security legal issues and the work of H...
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On Monday, accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev filed his reply to the government's response to his motion to vacate special administrative measures (SAMs) imposed on him and his attorneys.
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I was on the same panel as Orin at Monday's day-long hearing before the Privacy & Civil Liberties Oversight Board, and think there's a lot to commend his proposal for a statutory rule of lenity as a tool...
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The Russian Foreign Ministry announced this morning that the main Syrian opposition group has refused to participate in talks with the Syrian government that would have taken place in Moscow.
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As Raff noted earlier this week, the Supreme Court heard oral argument on Tuesday in the strange case of Bond v United States, in which a Pennsylvania woman, Carol Anne Bond, was convicted under a federa...
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In Hatim v. Obama, a.k.a. the Guantanamo "counsel access case," the government's reply brief has been submitted, and the D.C. Circuit has slated the case for oral argument on Monday, December 9.
We've c...
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The President has just nominated Caroline Krass to be General Counsel of the CIA, to succeed Stephen Preston.
Although late in coming, this is an excellent appointment. Caroline is currently the Princ...
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Today David Miranda, partner of Glenn Greenwald, was back at the Royal Courts of Justice to continue his suit against the home secretary and the Metropolitan police commissioner for his eight-hour, 55-mi...
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The NSA isn't the only organization interested in metadata. The CIA pays AT&T more than $10 million per year to access its vast database of phone records---which the phone company has voluntarily agreed ...
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Today, the Federal Aviation Administration released two key documents bearing on the coming integration, on a broad scale, of drones into our national airspace.
One is the so-called "Roadmap," a forward...