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Today's Headlines and Commentary
Breaking news flooding onto our Twitter streams today: the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria has released a new audio recording of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, accompanied by English translation of his remarks. -
Pew Study Says Exactly What You'd Expect on Privacy
The Pew Research Internet Project has released a new public opinion study that shows exactly what you would expect the public believes about privacy, surveillance, and related matters. The study seems to... -
The U.S.-China Climate “Deal” Does Less Than Has Been Hyped
I am (as I have previously noted) no expert on climate change. But reading the text of the much-vaunted U.S.-China Joint Announcement on Climate Change makes me think there is a large gap between how th... -
DC Circuit Temporarily Stays United States' Appeal in <em>Al-Nashiri</em>, Pending Consideration of Mandamus Petition
The order grants a motion filed by Al-Nashiri, and was handed down today by Circuit Judges Cornelia Pillard and Judith Rogers, over the dissent of Circuit Judge Brett Kavanaugh. It's gist is temporarily ... -
Readings: Sir Adam Roberts on the Importance of History and State Practice
Twenty years ago, Adam Roberts made the following observation in his essay, "Land Warfare: From Hague to Nuremberg," in The Laws of War: Constraints on Warfare in the Western World (1994, pp. 116-139): T... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
As Congress enters its lame-duck session, Foreign Policy outlines the nine ways that foreign policy will dominate the agenda. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) anticipates that the Senate will soon consider an A... -
U.S. Delegation Asserts Article 16 of Convention Against Torture Applies Outside U.S. Territority in Certain Circumstances, but Law of Armed Conflict "Takes Precedence" In Situations of Armed Conflict
As previewed by Charlie Savage in the New York Times this morning, the U.S. delegation appeared before the Committee Against Torture in Geneva today and announced a modest but important change in the U.S. -
NYT on Autonomous Weapons and Ways to Regulate Them
The New York Times has a useful article today on autonomous weapon systems and debate about their regulation. The issue is also on the discussion agenda this week in Geneva for the UN Convention on Cert... -
The Preamble to the ISIS AUMF
Allow me to stress an issue perhaps in the capillaries, rather than at the heart, of the ISIS AUMF debate: language in the next AUMF’s preamble. So far as I know, nobody is talking about this just yet. -
Wilson Center Event on ISIS and Congressional Authorization
Streaming video is below. As noted earlier, Senator Tim Kaine (D-Va) will give remarks on ISIS and congressional authorization; afterwards, Wilson Center Director and former Representative Jane Harman, ... -
PCLOB Hearing on "Defining Privacy"
It's ongoing now. Details are available here. and live streaming video is available over at C-SPAN. -
The Obama Administration's Position on the CAT
The New York Times' Charlie Savage has the scoop: WASHINGTON — A treaty ban on cruel treatment will restrict how the United States may treat prisoners in certain places abroad, the Obama administration ...
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