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Steven Aftergood from Secrecy News has helpfully posted new and updated Congressional Research Service reports on the conflict in Syria:
Possible U.S. Intervention in Syria: Issues for Congress, Septembe...
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Last Saturday President Obama said he had “decided that the United States should take military action against Syrian regime targets,” and that he had made that decision “as Commander-in-Chief based on wh...
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Among the documents that Edward Snowden released are reports showing that the NSA had been picking up email and phone conversations by and among foreign leaders. Among the alleged targets were officials...
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John Dehn, a professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law and a Senior Fellow in West Point's Center for the Rule of Law, writes in with this comment about Syria and humanitarian intervention:
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It's a little quieter on the Syria front today. A few items of interest before the weekend:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has filed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee resolution---which passed 1...
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Lawfare-ers have been quite prolific in the debate over U.S. intervention in Syria.
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The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has published its congressionally-mandated, biannual report on the recidivism of former Guantanamo detainees.
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By now, many readers will have seen this report from the New York Times on the capabilities of the NSA to crack encryption systems used in cyberspace. I'm not surprised. That, after all, is the task we...
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Some Lawfare news to begin: We have officially passed the 500th roundup mark. Feel free to send us comments, sonnets, flowers, or all of the above.
Now on to the substance. As Raffaela noted yesterday, ...
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Earlier today I said that President Obama’s dismissal of a Security Council authorization as a prerequisite for intervention in Syria “marks the death knell for the long-held USG view that humanitarian i...
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Lurking behind international law arguments over a possible US armed intervention in Syria without Security Council authorization are fundamental divides over the nature of international law itself. Thes...
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Marty Lederman writes in with a response to my last post:
A quick, response to Jack's reading of the President's remarks in Stockholm yesterday:
One should be very cautious, of course, about reading too...
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I want to briefly unpack this extraordinary statement by President Obama yesterday in Sweden:
[T]he truth of the matter is that under international law, Security Council resolution for self-defense or de...
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President Obama has recently made the case for taking action in Syria in two very different arenas: yesterday, in a statement made prior to his meeting with Members of Congress; and today, in Stockholm, ...
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So reports the New York Times on this afternoon's vote to authorize the use of military force in Syria. The vote was 10-7; the Republicans voting with a majority of the Democrats on the panel included: S...
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The Senate Foreign Relations Committee came to a tentative, bipartisan agreement on the use of force in Syria, as Wells has noted.
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I disagree with Peter Spiro’s take on Section 4 of the draft AUMF.
Section 4 terminates the congressional authorization after 60 (or 90) days, but it does not affirmatively prohibit the President from u...
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Reps. Chris Van Hollen and Gerry Connolly have put forward another draft Syria force authorization. Here are some of the bill's key provisions, beginning with the authorization itself:
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Ben observed last week that in the midst of the most significant war powers debate of this Presidency, many of the top national security legal positions in the Administration remain unfilled.
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A little less than a year ago, I announced a very cautious experiments with comments on Lawfare---putting a Facebook comments box on each post. We now have enough experience with the experiment to determ...