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The President's Guantanamo Comments
I confess myself mystified by President Obama's comments about Guantanamo this morning. Here is what the President said---with the parts I find confusing bolded: QUESTION: Mr. President, as you're probab... -
POTUS on Guantanamo Closure
Earlier this morning, President Obama conducted a news conference. The questions touched on, among other things, the closure of the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, and the detainees' ongoing hunge... -
Defending Drones at the Oxford Union
Going to a university campus to defend the use of armed drones is a little like ascending the pulpit in a Southern Baptist church on a Sunday morning to speak on behalf of the Devil. -
Amici Retired Military Officials Seek to Participate in Al-Nashiri v. MacDonald Argument
The Ninth Circuit will hear oral argument in Al-Nashiri v. MacDonald on June 3. The civil appeal challenges the power of the Military Commissions’ Convening Authority to prosecute Al-Nashiri before a mi... -
Hedges: CA2 Refuses Supplemental Briefing and Argument On Issues Arising From Clapper
So we learn from this order, handed down yesterday, by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. In a letter filed after the Hedges oral argument, attorneys for the government had cited... -
Obama Drone Strikes Targeting Low Level Insurgents?
Peter Bergen of the New America Foundation, which is the leading compiler of information about US drone strikes, made this interesting comment in his testimony yesterday before the Senate Judiciary Commi... -
Today's Senate Judiciary Subcommittee Hearing on the Targeted Killing Program
As Greg McNeal noted, the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights is holding a hearing this afternoon on the targeted killing program entitled "Drone ... -
CATO Event on Drones
Ben and Steve are speaking on a panel at the CATO Institute entitled "Drones and the New Way of War" along with Rosa Brooks of Georgetown Law and Benjamin Friedman of CATO. The event will be moderated b... -
Mary Laurie Writes a "Chinese White Paper"
Mary M. Laurie, a third-year law student at Penn State Law, has rewritten the DOJ White Paper on targeted killing from the perspective the Chinese government. She explains: China considered using a drone... -
Four Reasons Sens. Graham and McCain are Wrong
Sens. Lindsey Graham and John McCain were quick out of the box last night in declaring that the Obama administration should hold Dzhokar Tsarnaev in military detention: Now that the suspect is in custody... -
Lashkar-e-Taiba as an "Associated Force" Engaged in Hostilities Against the US and Its Allies
For those who wish to understand the organizational boundaries of the AUMF these days, Lashkar-e-Taiba provides an interesting and important test case. Grist for the mill is found in this piece in Long ... -
District Court: No Jurisdiction Over Emergency GTMO Motion on Water, Cold
That's the gist of this report, filed earlier today by Politico's Josh Gerstein: A federal judge declined Monday to take action on behalf of a hunger-striking prisoner at Guantanamo Bay whose attorneys s...
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