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APA Releases Report Critical of Ethics Guidelines That Facilitated CIA Enhanced Interrogation
A little over a week ago, the law firm Sidley Austin LLP submitted its "Independent Review Relating to APA Ethics Guidelines, National Security Interrogations, and Torture" to the APA Board of Directors.... -
Pentagon Releases New National Military Strategy
Yesterday, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey unveiled the the Pentagon's new 2015 National Military Strategy. Revising the 2011 National Military Strategy, General Dempsey indi... -
The Third Annual Transatlantic Workshop on International Law and Armed Conflict
I'm very happy to report that the 3rd annual Transatlantic Workshop on International Law and Armed Conflict will occur at Oxford next week. As I explained last summer, this event is co-sponsored by the ... -
The UN Gaza Report: Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
One of the basic tenets of the law of armed conflict (LOAC) is the equal application of the laws: as Professor Adam Roberts -
DOD Interpretation of The Laws of War Allow Botnet Creation?
I was struck by Charlie Dunlap’s take on the DOD Law of War manual regarding cyber operations, especially on how cyberattacks are carried out. -
The DoD Law of War Manual, Broken Down By Chapter
The people have spoken, and Lawfare has listened. As a service to readers, we today have created, under the "Special Features" menu, a standalone page containing the recently released, long anticipate... -
No CTIIC Meddling Please: Excerpts from White House Veto Threat
Back on June 15, the White House issued a SAP (statement of administration policy) spelling out objections to H.R. 2596, the Intelligence Authorization Act for FY'16. The SAP concludes that the Presiden... -
Why I Don't "Trust" the Military Commissions (And You Shouldn't Either...)
In a characteristically thoughtful post, my friend (and, in his words, "long-time sparring partner") Charlie Dunlap takes me to task for some of my comments in last week's Lawfare podcast with regard to ... -
What to Make of the UN's Special Commission Report on Gaza?
The UN Human Rights Council’s Independent Commission of Inquiry report on the 2014 Gaza war, released Monday, is a bad piece of work—bad in almost entirely predictable and boring ways, but no less bad fo... -
The D.C. Circuit's Thoroughly Convincing Decision in <em>al-Nashiri</em>
This morning, a three-judge D.C. -
Human Rights Council Commission of Inquiry Report on Gaza Released
Here it is. Here's the press release that accompanies it: GENEVA (22 June 2015): The United Nations Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza conflict has gathered substantial information poin... -
Storifying the Oversight System for JSOC Kill/Capture Ops
I'm not certain this adds value, but I've decided to give Storify a shot. My first shot at it uses the platform to pull together my posts on the ongoing development of the statutory regime for oversight...
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