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I was intrigued by this post from a few days ago by Deborah Pearlstein over at Opinio Juris. Entitled "Catching Up with the Senate on Detainee Matters," it concludes as follows:
the Senate bill is a subs...
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Peter Bergen and Katherine Tiedmann have a piece in the new issue of Foreign Affairs (mostly behind the pay wall, but an excerpt is here) offering a mixed verdict on drone strike operations in Pakistan. ...
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Carrie Johnson at NPR posts (who knew that NPR reporters were blogging? This is really great stuff - add Carrie to your RSS feed) some important additional details. First, she confirms that there is st...
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A dramatic announcement just now from the Justice Department, concerning the outcome of the Durham Investigation into CIA interrogation practices. It is unclear from the context whether that investigati...
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The Washington Post reports this morning that JSOC recently carried out a drone strike in Somalia, targeting two al-Shabab leaders. The piece emphasizes that the Administration has recently highlighted ...
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As things stand now, the National Defense Authorization Act could end up being a disaster for the Obama administration on detainee matters. Much of the fault for this lies with Congress, a bipartisan maj...
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Marty Lederman offers this analysis over at Balkinization of two critical amendments proposed by Senator Richard Lugar and adopted by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday.
Lederman points ou...
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[UPDATE: See here for a clarification; contrary to my original read below, it appears Admiral McRaven did not mean for the list of disposition options to refer to non-AUMF scenarios] While many eyes were...
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Eric Posner and Adrian Vermeule have an essay in Slate that argues that it was appropriate for President Obama to ignore OLC’s advice related to the War Powers Resolution. The thrust of their argument, ...
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Harold Koh's written testimony in connection with today's SFRC hearing on the WPR and Libya is now available.
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For the benefit of those who could not watch the SFRC hearing this morning on Libya and the WPR, here are highlights from the oral testimony from State Department Legal Advisor Harold Koh (the written te...
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The following is a guest post from Peter Margulies (Roger Williams Law), reporting highlights from the Naval War College's International Law Conference 2011 ("Non-International Armed Conflict in the 21st...