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No CTIIC Meddling Please: Excerpts from White House Veto Threat
Back on June 15, the White House issued a SAP (statement of administration policy) spelling out objections to H.R. 2596, the Intelligence Authorization Act for FY'16. The SAP concludes that the Presiden... -
Why I Don't "Trust" the Military Commissions (And You Shouldn't Either...)
In a characteristically thoughtful post, my friend (and, in his words, "long-time sparring partner") Charlie Dunlap takes me to task for some of my comments in last week's Lawfare podcast with regard to ... -
Military Commissions After <em>Al-Bahlul</em>
I take issue with two recent critiques of the Guantanamo military commissions, both arising from a D.C. Circuit panel’s reversal, earlier this month, of the conviction by military commission of Ali al-Ba... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
In the latest Snowden scoop, the New York Times and the Guardian have -
What is the DoD's Position on Backdoors in Security Systems?
In May, Admiral James A. Winnefeld, Jr., Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, gave an address at the Joint Service Academies Cyber Security Summit at West Point. After he spoke for twenty minutes ... -
Jihadology Podcast: Syria Status Update with Charles Lister
Charles Lister comes on the show to discuss a wide range of topics related to the current situation in Syria: -
Statement from the Taliban: “Full Text Delivered By the Head of the Political Office at the Oslo Conference (Forum)”
Click here for the original post. -- نحمده ونصلي علی رسوله الکریم اما بعد اعوذ بالله من الشیطان الرجیم بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم -
What to Make of the UN's Special Commission Report on Gaza?
The UN Human Rights Council’s Independent Commission of Inquiry report on the 2014 Gaza war, released Monday, is a bad piece of work—bad in almost entirely predictable and boring ways, but no less bad fo... -
Bits and Bytes
The Lopht warns of cyber insecurity ... in 1998. A fantastic review article about how we got to where we are today. "The seven young men sitting before some of Capitol Hill’s most powerful lawmakers we... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The Defense Department announced today that a U.S. airstrike in Mosul, Iraq has killed Ali Awni al Harzi, a “person of interest” in the 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya. Har... -
Mike Lewis, 1964-2015
Navy “Top Guns” are not primarily known for their commitment to scholarship. But Mike Lewis, a former Top Gun and professor at Ohio Northern University’s Pettit College of Law, who passed away at age 50... -
In Memoriam: Professor Mike Lewis
I am so very, very sorry to report the passing of a friend and colleague, Professor Mike Lewis of Ohio Northern. Did you ever meet Mike? You'll remember him if you did. What a charming, smart, and goo...
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