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Scott Shane has an important story in the New York Times on the controversy over the number of civilian deaths caused by the CIA's drones program outside of Afghanistan. Shane reports that,
The civilian ...
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Earlier we posted Ramzi Kassem's criticism of commentary from Ben and Tom Joscelyn concerning the al-Alwi case. Tom has asked us to share the following response:
Ramzi Kassem is bothered by the use of t...
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I was trying to formulate my mixed feelings about the Vance and Doe decisions when I received the following email from a Lawfare reader.
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Josh Gerstein at the Politico beat me to the punch with a point I have been meaning to make since looking at the Seventh Circuit's Vance decision yesterday: The viability of civil cases against former of...
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Professor Ramzi Kassem of CUNY Law, who serves as counsel for GTMO detainee Moath al-Alwi, takes issue with an earlier post on this blog concerning the al-Alwi case. He has asked us to share the followi...
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Paul Starobin, whose New York Times piece this weekend was the subject of these earlier thoughts, writes in with the following response:
I agree with Benjamin Wittes that there is an important, even a vi...
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Only days after a U.S. District Court in Washington allowed to proceed a suit by a U.S. citizen who alleged that he had been detained and tortured by U.S. forces in Iraq, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals...
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Paul Starobin has a piece in the New York Times pondering the flip-flop of Harold Koh on war powers:
During the Bush administration, he was legendary for his piercing criticisms of “executive muscle flex...
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Back in June, I posted the appeal of Jose Padilla and his mother in a civil case against a group of current and former Defense Department officials.
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I have only had a chance to skim this lengthy opinion by U.S. District Judge James Gwin allowing a suit against Don Rumsfeld and others to proceed on some counts. But it appears to allege quite remarkab...
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Over at the Long War Journal, Thomas Joscelyn--with whom Bobby and I have lately been sparring on Guantanamo transfers--has an interesting piece on the D.C. Circuit's recent decision in Al Alwi.
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Yesterday's government win before Judge Kennedy and the D.C. Circuit's recent opinion in Al Alwi require an update to the habeas numbers, which are now as follows:
Uighur cases in which detention was dee...