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Cully Stimson (Heritage) has posted a very handy review of the pros and cons of the pending NDAA FY12 bills, highlighting both the useful and problematic aspects of that legislation. And as a reminder, ...
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That is the headline from ABC News. The War Powers Resolution notification to Congress states in part:
I have authorized a small number of combat-equipped U.S. forces to deploy to central Africa to prov...
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Next Tuesday, October 18, at The Heritage Foundation:
[T]he House and Senate have proposed additional detainee-related legislation in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2012. Both have pro...
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Today the Romney campaign issued a White Paper on Foreign Policy and National Defense. I have only had time to skim it, but this passage stood out as of particular interest to Lawfare readers:
Update th...
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Josh Gerstein reports that Senator Reid has announced that he will not allow the NDAA for FY'12 to come to the floor for a vote until concerns over section 1031, 1032, and 1033 are addressed. As you may...
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The arraignment order by Military Judge James L. Pohl in the case USA v. al-Nashiri is now available here, and here is the substance of it:
1. As the Chief Judge of the Military Commissions Trial Judicia...
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Here is the prepared text, released by the White House, of John Brennan's speech at the Harvard Law School-Brookings conference now under way in Cambridge. I will post video, including of the very intere...
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Charlie Savage has a story about a dispute between DOD General Counsel Jeh Johnson and State Legal Advisor Harold Koh over the scope of the president’s legal authority to target members of al Qaeda-affil...
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As noted previously, I testified in late July before House Armed Services regarding detention policy, with a focus on the Warsame situation. I've seen received a handful of QFRs from committee members, ...
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In kicking off Lawfare's 9/11 10th anniversary project devoted to laying bare our own non-trivial errors of analysis or understanding over the last decade, I have a number from which to choose. All, howe...
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Yesterday the Justice Department filed a memorandum (h/t Charlie Savage) in support of its motion to dismiss the lawsuit by ten members of Congress against President Obama over the Libya operation. The ...
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Paul Starobin, whose New York Times piece this weekend was the subject of these earlier thoughts, writes in with the following response:
I agree with Benjamin Wittes that there is an important, even a vi...