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That is the title that the editors of the New York Times Magazine gave to an essay I wrote in reaction to former Vice-President Cheney’s book, In My Time. The thrust of the essay is that early Bush unil...
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As noted previously, I testified in late July before House Armed Services regarding detention policy, with a focus on the Warsame situation. I've seen received a handful of QFRs from committee members, ...
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The next episode in the D.C. Circuit’s Guantanamo detention saga: Suleiman v. Obama (Case No. 10-5292), an appeal set for oral argument this Friday before the D.C. Circuit.
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Steve Vladeck is a professor of law (and Associate Dean for Scholarship) at American University Washington College of Law. Steve is the author of many terrific articles relating to national security an...
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That was the subject of a debate the other day put on by a group called Intelligence Squared--which was attended and summarized by Lawfare reader John Mattiace. Mattiace is an attorney practicing in New ...
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The U.S. Court of Military Commission Review yesterday evening affirmed the conviction and life sentence of Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman Al Bahlul, an Al Qaeda media propagandist. I have not yet read the 139-...
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John Rizzo, former acting general counsel for CIA, writes in with the following in connection with Lawfare's 9/11 10th Anniversary Project. This essay is adapted from a longer piece, entitled "9/11: Thre...
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Bruce Ackerman has an interesting piece at Foreign Policy this week, arguing that the “congressional resolutions authorizing combat in Afghanistan and Iraq no longer justify military operations in either...
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In the Fall of 2002, a month or so after I started work in the Defense Department General Counsel’s office, I had a chat with Rear Admiral Michael Lohr, who at the time was the Judge Advocate General of ...
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The appellant and appellee briefs for Alsabri v. Obama, a Guantanamo habeas case in the D.C. Circuit, are now available. You can read Ben's thoughts on the District Court's decision here and Bobby's thou...
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The government's brief, and the petitioner's subsequent reply brief, are available in the case of Fayiz Mohammed Ahmed al-Kandari v. United States. Al Kandari is a Kuwaiti Guantanamo detainee who is seek...
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Further to Ben's post on the new DC Circuit decision in Khan v.