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Like David Remes, but with different assumptions and for different reasons, I was disappointed with Senators Durbin and Feinstein’s op-ed purporting to offer a plan for closing Guantanamo. As I’ve argue...
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At a little before seven am yesterday morning, police and military stormed the two sit-ins where supporters of ousted Muslim Brotherhood President Mohamed Morsi have been encamped for the last six weeks....
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Susan Landau has a new piece at Computing Now called Making Sense from Snowden: What’s Significant in the NSA Surveillance Revelations:
Did Snowden cause irreparable harm, or did he reveal facts that sho...
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David Remes, the longtime GTMO defense lawyer, wrote in with comments on Senators Feinstein and Durbin’s op-ed in today’s L.A. Times entitled, “How to close Gitmo”:
The oped is quite disappointing. In br...
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Cairo is in chaos. Two journalists are dead.
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Given Steve's critiques of my Monday post, both here and here, I thought it worth briefly clarifying a few points.
First, Steve somehow draws the conclusion that I am not interested in the legality of s...
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One immediate consequence of Snowden’s various revelations about massive USG surveillance – at home and especially abroad – was to put a chill on the loud U.S. campaign against Chinese cyber-snooping. (...
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I must confess to being somewhat vexed by Ben's reply this morning to the exchange between Carrie Cordero and me on FISA reform--not for what Ben says, but for why he thinks that leaves him in a "very m...
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Carol Rosenberg of the Miami Herald starts us off today with this story about the Pentagon’s attempts at “culturally correct” force feedings at Guantanamo Bay.
Robert H. Reid of the Associated Press inf...
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I find myself sympathetic to both Carrie and Steve on FISA oversight.
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I am back in Cairo after some time out of the country, and there is a lot going on. Here are some notes from the last fews weeks in reverse chronological order.
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One sometimes hears in national security circles, including within the USG, statements to the effect that the U.S. military cannot operate in the homeland, or cannot execute law within the homeland.
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As noted in the roundup, Lavabit is in the news again as one of two popular encrypted email services to shut down last Thursday. The company first made headlines back in July, when Edward Snowden used hi...
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August hasn’t been quite as sleepy in Washington as it is rumored to be.
In addition to the Department of Justice White Paper on Section 215 that was released on Friday, CNN’s Evan Perez points us to a ...
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The central theme of Carrie's post critiquing proposals for FISA reform appears to be that there are already too many lawyers and too much oversight of how the NSA conducts "foreign intelligence surveill...
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President Obama was dead-on when he said the following in his August 9th press conference: "[P]robably what's a fair criticism is my assumption that if we had checks and balances from the courts and Cong...
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The President says that he has ordered a review of NSA surveillance programs, and one of the challenging aspects of such review will be establishing metrics of success and value. This is a common challe...
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Lawfarers will recall Ben's trip, two months back, to Bangkok and the 26th annual International Military Law and Operations (MILOPS) Conference. While attending MILOPS, he interviewed a number of key co...