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You've likely heard: in a bid to avert action by the United States, Russia has proposed that Syria abandon its chemical weapons stockpiles.
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Published by Touchstone (2013)
Reviewed by Bruce Riedel
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[Updated (11:34 a.m.): Ben rightly points out to me that his reply does not use the phrases "clearly legal" or "settled," and so my use of quotation marks around those terms may convey the wrong impressi...
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In his response to my post in defense of the NSA, Steve raises a few issues about my claim that the "NSA's activities are legal." I would like to address them each very briefly.
First, he asks, "does Be...
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Last Wednesday the government filed its response brief in Aamer v. Obama, the force-feeding case on appeal in the D.C. Circuit. The appellants, three Guantánamo detainees, filed their appeal on Aug. 5, c...
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I have no doubt that Ben meant to provoke--and, at least in my case, he did (enough, at least, to make a Coming to America reference in the title of this post).
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I've been quiet of late -- mostly because our Lawfare readership is so self-evidently (and, I might add, appropriately) engaged in questions of greater immediacy relating to the coming debate over Syrian...
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The NSA has been somewhat less in the news the past few weeks, thanks largely to Syria. That's going to change in the coming days, when the latest tranche of declassified materials becomes public.
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Julian Ku is right to poke fun at the administration for conveying its vague and conclusory legal rationale for intervening in Syria through the reporting of the NYT’s Charlie Savage. But vague and conc...
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The BBC reports that Italian journalist Domenico Quirico and Belgian teacher Pierre Piccinin da Prata have been released after being kidnapped in Syria in April. That's about it for good news from the we...
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Sam Tanenhaus had an essay over the weekend in the NYT that I think is at bottom a “little c” conservative critique of President Obama’s Syria push. But the essay makes little sense, at least to me.
Ta...
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. . . from the Onion:
WASHINGTON—As President Obama continues to push for a plan of limited military intervention in Syria, a new poll of Americans has found that though the nation remains wary over the ...
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The issue for tomorrow morning's argument in the D.C. Circuit: whether Guantanamo detainee Fadel Hussein Saleh Hentif's appeal was filed on time.
In a redacted 2011 opinion, the district court had conc...
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I normally let our podcast posts speak for themselves, but I want to say a particular word about the event Brookings held on Thursday, which Wells just posted as the latest episode of the Lawfare Podcast...
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On Thursday, Brookings hosted an event on possible U.S. military intervention in Syria.
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The other day, I posted this video of a drone crashing into the stands at a local sporting event.
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It was an odd turn of events yesterday at the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse. For a moment, it seemed as if a controversial Guantanamo policy might be rescinded or modified.
Friday morning saw a long-...
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Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Lawfare, happy birthday to you. This week marked the blog's third birthday, as Ben noted.
Another milestone, this one flagged by Ritika...
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Senators Manchin and Heitcamp are working on an alternative Syria Resolution that tentatively provides:
The failure by the government of Bashar al-Assad to sign and comply with the [Chemical Weapons] Con...
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The rhetoric of “punishment” has been a ubiquitous justification for intervening in Syria.