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Ben Emmerson, the UN's Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, issued the following statement on Friday following a visit t...
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This memorandum from the Secretary of Defense, came across my screen the other day. It will give the reader some insight into how DoD is trying to build its cyber capabilities.
MEMORANDUM FOR SECRETARIE...
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The Lawfare Book Review is pleased to announce that this weekend, we are publishing not one but two reviews of John Fabian Witt, Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History (Free Press 2012; the ...
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The House Armed Services Committee was hard at work marking up the National Defense Authorization Act for the upcoming fiscal year. We have a transcript of the debate over Democratic Congressman Adam Smi...
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President Obama and his team pledged in 2009 to work hard with Congress to close GTMO. There appeared to be little White House follow-up for the next four years, however. And indeed, the administration...
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On Monday, the Ninth Circuit heard argument in Hamad v. Gates and Al-Nashiri v. MacDonald, two civil cases involving Guantanamo.
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Apropos of Jack's post: here's the Chairman's mark of the National Defense Authorization bill for 2014.
Among many, many other things, the draft legislation requires the Secretary of Defense to notify c...
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One point of common ground in the debate at Lawfare over the continued viability of the AUMF (at least among Bobby and Matthew, Jen and Steve, and me – not sure about Ben) is that Congress should engage ...
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The following guest post is from Professor Geoffrey Corn (South Texas College of Law), in response to a post in which I raised the possibility that, in light of the non-battlefield targeting standards ar...
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Christof Heyns, the UN's special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings and other bad stuff has issued a statement reiterating his call for a "moratorium" on the use of lethal autonomous robots.
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So report the New York Times and the Washington Post.
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Washington Post national security reporter Greg Miller has an excellent story in Sunday's paper on the operational role of the CIA in drone warfare. Back at the time of the Brennan confirmation hearings...