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The two main headlines on the online NYT at the moment are about the E Coli outbreak in Germany and the alleged hack by China of Google. I have not seen anyone speculating that the E Coli outbreak is a ...
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The D.C. Circuit has denied rehearing en banc to Guantanamo detainee Uthman Abdul Rahim Mohammed Uthman, whose habeas case the court decided in March.
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Several pieces in the news today may be of interest to Lawfare Readers.
The Washington Post reports on the Pentagon's list of critical cyber-weapons:
The Pentagon has developed a list of cyber-weapo...
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The administration just issued a Statement of Administration Policy on a DHS appropriations bill (H.R. 2017), which contains a spending restriction similar to one of the Guantanamo transfer restrictions ...
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DOD has just announced that charges have now been sworn by military commission prosecutors in the case against KSM and four others linked to the 9/11 attacks. From DOD's press release:
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The Supreme Court has reversed the Ninth Circuit in al-Kidd v.
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One further thought about the D.C. Circuit's Al Madhwani opinion--along the same lines as I mentioned earlier. There are at least two other places in this brief (12 page) opinion in which the panel opini...
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Earlier today I noted a couple of scenarios in which the US government might want detention authority yet face obstacles in relying on the original AUMF should we have withdrawn in the interim from Afgha...
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For the record, the Buchanan Amendment is a bad idea, and I hope that it dies in conference. In addition to being constitutionally vulnerable in at least some applications (Milligan anyone?), and hamhan...
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Here are five quick thoughts about the legislative tussling over the AUMF and detention policy following yesterday's House vote to pass the NDAA and its provisions on the subject.
First, if it was not c...
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The D.C. Circuit has just issued its opinion in Al Madhwani v. Obama--a Guantanamo habeas case. The case, which I previewed here and whose oral argument Larkin and I tag-team-covered here, is brief and b...