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Today is the 30th anniversary of the bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, which killed 241 U.S. service members, and 58 French paratroopers.
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Having gained no purchase in federal district courts in countering NSA's telephony metadata program, privacy activists are attempting a different strategy: taking the fight directly to the United States ...
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How long will the enhanced security state in America last? Apparently, some think it will be "for the rest of time." That has to be wrong.
As readers of this blog know, I live on Capitol Hill and walk...
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James Connell III argues his client’s position with respect to AE200. That’s the defense’s attempt to have the case thrown out, or the death penalty removed as a punishment option, given an inconsistenc...
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Trumpets sound, the flaming gong bangs, and a wave of applause overpowers Smallwood Hall, the CCTV facility at Fort Meade. It is here that we take in the sorta-live broadcast of pretrial proceedings in U...
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As Yahoo News reports,the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has published an order granting Yahoo and the government's joint motion to allow Yahoo pre-publication access to FISC documents after dec...
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I have now read both of the two major human rights reports released yesterday on civilian casualties in drone strikes---one by Amnesty International on strikes in Pakistan and the other by Human Rights W...
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Good morning, y'all. Your correspondent stands ready once again to report on the day's events in the military commission case of United States v.
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With reports released this week critical of US drone strikes and targeted killing from Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and UN Special Rapporteur Ben Emmerson, this seems like a good moment to ...
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The fate of the case, Al Janko v. Gates, before the D.C.
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And here it is: Preliminary Cybersecurity Framework.
Details to follow ...
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The prosecutor Clay Trivett will rebut the defense’s opening argument on AE200---its bid to have the 9/11 charges dismissed, or to have the death penalty removed as a sentencing option, in light of restr...
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Two human rights groups released reports today on civilian casualties from selected drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen. Amnesty International's "Will I Be Next?" US Drone Strikes in Pakistan investigate...
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What do software users have in common with Mary Mallon, better known today as Typhoid Mary? A lot---and that's why we shouldn't be leaving the quality of code in the hands of the market. Confused?
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And … we’re back. Ever briskly, court and counsel discuss a recently reached factual stipulation regarding expected testimony from CDR Jennifer Strazza, whom the defense had sought in connection with se...
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We begin with cyber matters. Convicted hackers, the UK's new Joint Cyber Reserve Unit wants you!
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We thus turn from legal bins to docketed items, and in particular, to AE200: that’s a defense motion to toss out the charge sheet, in light of alleged inconsistencies between a protective order meant to ...
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The beginnings of a Maryland autumn can be discerned outside Fort Meade’s Smallwood Hall. Inside, the by-now familiar CCTV screen comes to life and displays an empty judicial bench, the Joint Task Force...
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Your Lawfare correspondent is ready to go at Fort Meade, and to capture, in almost real time, this week's pre-trial hearings in United States v. Mohammed et al.
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Over at the Atlantic, Conor Friedersdorf takes a peek at my ideology in response to my critique of the Washington Post's recent story on NSA collection of email contact lists overseas. I'm glad he did.