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A coda to Bobby's post below asking about the legal views underlying US operations in Somalia over the past three weeks. Three weeks ago, SEALs attempted a capture operation against a target on the coas...
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In an excellent Lawfare post last month, Does the U.N.’s Syria Resolution Violate the Chemical Weapons Convention? Faiza Patel asserts that if Syria sent chemical weapons to another country, Syria would...
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When U.S.
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We noted Sunday that the Justice Department filed a letter in the force-feeding case Aamer v. Obama last week informing the D.C. Circuit that the four detainees are no longer designated hunger-strikers.
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Last Monday, the government filed its response to accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's motion to vacate the special administrative measures (SAMs) imposed on him and his attorneys.
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...to my revised meta-study of drone strike casualties.
Ritika Singh's updated meta-study of drone strike casualties reaches exactly the right conclusion: the more we hear from non-government sources, t...
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On Thursday the Justice Department filed a letter notifying the D.C. Circuit that none of the four Guantanamo detainees protesting government force-feeding in Aamer v. Obama are any longer designated hun...
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Not to be outdone by Amnesty International, which responded earlier to my post on reports by Amenesty and Human Rights Watch, Letta Taylor of Human Rights Watch writes in with the following response as w...
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I've been thinking about the recent Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch reports in the context of my Meta-Study of Drone Strike Casualties from this summer, in which I examined the different met...
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Odds and ends are batted around, as some motions are deemed moot, and others are put off until the case’s December sitting. The whittling down takes us eventually to AE158, and to Ruiz’s bid to prevent ...
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Next is AE175. It is perhaps the prosecution’s most hotly anticipated item, and for good reason. The motion asks the military judge to enter the prosecution’s proposed trial scheduling order. Among ot...
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We’re back from lunch. How shall we proceed?
The Chief Prosecutor, Brig. Gen. Mark Martins, proposes beginning with a motion to compel, AE167, before moving on to, among other things, argument on AE120...