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In papers filed Friday, the government renewed its request for a summary affirmance, and opposed an attempt by habeas petitioner Mohammed Rimi to remand his appeal to the district court.
Rimi was transf...
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Ben notes what appears to be a draft proposal from Senator Rand Paul to amend the NDAA so as to address situations involving American citizens captured inside the United States. While the context sugges...
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No, you didn't read that wrong. And no, this isn't an episode of South Park.
The Center for Constitutional Rights and the Canadian Centre for International Justice have filed a complaint with the Geneva...
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Chief Judge Lamberth has granted the government’s motion to dismiss a first amended habeas petition filed by a Pakistani citizen held at Bagram, following the Circuit’s decision in al Maqaleh (and the su...
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The other day, my Brookings colleague Daniel Byman held an event entitled "Yemen and the Future of a Resurgent Al Qaeda." One of the two panelists was Gregory Johnsen, the author of the recently-released...
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So reports ABC News: Ali Mussa Daqduq---background on him here---is now a free man.
A Hezbollah commander wanted by the United States has been released from Iraqi custody and returned to the Lebanese cap...
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District Judge Paul L.
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While the Senate was making a feint at legislation yesterday, far more significant cyber news was disclosed. According to the Washington Post President Obama has signed a new Presidential Policy Directi...
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I spent a flight out to Minnesota yesterday reflecting on Jack's and Trevor's discussion over the weekend of Obama's first term, his coming second term, the Bush administration, and the now-will-never-be...
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John McLaughlin, who was Deputy Director of the CIA from 2000-2004, has a nice essay in FP on how the patterns of terrorism we face today differ from the ones that prevailed in the years after 9/11. Man...
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Attorneys for Senators John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and Kelly Ayotte---all members of the Senate Committee on Armed Services---have filed an amicus brief in support of the government in Hedges v.
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On Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Stuxnet, the virus that targeted Iran's uranium enrichment program and that is generally thought to have been created jointly by the United States and Isr...