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There's barely a true fact in it, but it's very funny:
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The following is a continuation of our side-by-side comparison of the House and Senate versions of the NDAA:
Prohibition of Detainee Transfer to the United States
The House version of the bill (Section 1...
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[UPDATE (12/9/11): See here for my updated assessment as to US citizens captured abroad.]
On the day that the Senate passed its version of the NDAA, I wrote a post in the morning addressing whether the ...
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As the House of Representatives and the Senate head to conference on the NDAA, I thought it might be useful to analyze the similarities and differences between the counterterrorism provisions of the two ...
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Matt Waxman (who served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs from 2004 to 2005) and I have written a short article for the Council on Foreign Relations expressing concern about t...
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The saga of whether Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman Al Bahlul's counsel rightly represents him before the D.C. Circuit in his military commissions appeal continues. The government, you'll recall from prior cover...
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As Raff explains below, there was one amendment to S. 1867's detainee section that made it through: Senator Feinstein's amendment stating that the bill should not be read as favoring or disfavoring an in...
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The Senate passed the NDAA (S. 1867) last night on a 93-7 vote. The seven senators who voted against final passage are:
Coburn
Harkin
Lee
Merkley
Paul
Sanders
Wyden
The bill now moves on to a co...
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There was a guilty plea today in United States v. Yusuf (S.D. Cal. Dec.
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Senator Feinstein's amendment, which would have limited applicability of the NDAA's detention provisions to terrorism suspects captured abroad, was rejected in a 45-55 vote this afternoon.