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Yesterday, the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations received an "Update on Detainee Transfers from GTMO."
You can read the testimony of the Department of De...
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Jack ends his excellent and comprehensive post this morning, a post which I will not try to summarize, with the following statement:
I just don’t get the calculation. It seems that the President could h...
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Before I get to analysis and criticism, let me give the Obama administration credit for proposing a draft AUMF yesterday. The administration’s many promises about working with Congress to craft an AUMF ...
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Here are the key policy judgments in the President's AUMF proposal:
"The President is authorized . . . to use the Armed Forces of the United States as the President determines to be necessary and approp...
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This morning, the White House released a proposed Authorization for the Use of Military Force against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant to Congress. You can find the AUMF transmittal letter and th...
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Over at Just Security, Steve Vladeck and a group of scholars have posted a letter to President Obama asking him to include in his AUMF proposal not merely a sunset for the new ISIS AUMF but one for the u...
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If one thing was clear from Tuesday morning's 61-minute argument before the D.C.
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It is with great reluctance that I wade into Gabor and Steve’s debate about how to close the U.S.
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Our session is once more called to order. The defense and accused are here, but now the Special Review Team is not---its place having been taken by the ordinary prosecution team.
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The gavel bangs. The military judge, Army Col. James L. Pohl, calls the proceedings to order. Members of the prosecution are absent, their place taken by a Special Review Team that has been looking into ...
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Here y'are. Brig. Gen. Mark Martins' remarks begin as follows:
Good afternoon. On this day in 1949, the bill that ultimately became the Uniform Code of Military Justice was introduced into both houses o...
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Here it is, given by Brian McKeon, Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, before the Senate Armed Services Committee. And here's the video of yesterday's hearing: