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As the prospects for real cybersecurity legislation seem to fade, this may be a product whose time has already come and gone. Nevertheless, for those who want a handy chart outlining (in far too brief a...
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Congratulations to Scott L. Silliman and William B. Pollard III, both of whom the Senate last night confirmed to be judges of the U.S. Court of Military Commission Review. Both men must formally be swor...
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Breaking: earlier today, the Senate Armed Services Committee approved its two pending nominees for judgeships on the Court of Military Commission Review - William Pollard, and Professor Scott L. Silliman...
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As Raffaela noted earlier today, there appears to be some momentum gaining for the proposed Whitehouse-Kyle compromise legislation on cybersecurity -- at least if a letter from Senators Snowe and Warner ...
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Today's report includes the boilerplate-for-such-documents "consistent with the War Powers Resolution" phrase. It also includes the excerpt below regarding counterterrorism efforts in Yemen and Somalia:...
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Steve and Ben are having an interesting exchange about an important question: whether the DC Circuit's caselaw in GTMO habeas proceedings has produced a set of substantive and procedural rules at varianc...
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Raff pointed earlier to a USA Today op-ed by Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas), the Vice Chairman of the House Armed Services committee.
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I have resisted linking to the latest updates to Bobby, Larkin, and my paper--The Emerging Law of Detention 2.0: The Guantanamo Habeas Cases as Lawmaking--because the redesign of the Brookings web site t...
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U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest has issued this order clarifying the broad scope of the injunction in her earlier opinion striking down Section 1021 of the NDAA. The order does not rule on the gove...
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The government has moved for reconsideration in the Hedges case.
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Amidst all the discussion of whether and how to amend the House NDAA bill to address domestic captures, I am amazed that I did not notice the Rooney Amendment, which has been adopted. What does it do? ...
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