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On Journalists’ Claims for Immunity From Legal Accountability
I think I am unusual among former government officials in arguing that the publication of national security secrets can promote democracy and good government. Such publications are often costly, sometim... -
A Bit More On the Debate About the Extraterritorial Scope of the Torture Convention’s Provisions on Cruelty
In his piece on Nobel Peace Prize Laureates pressuring the President to disclose information about torture, Charlie Savage explains why some officials in the administration oppose the broad extraterritor... -
Oral Argument Tomorrow in Under Seal v. Holder
Speaking of National Security Letter (NSL) challenges: tomorrow morning Judges Ikuta, N. Randy Smith and Murguia of the Ninth Circuit will hear oral argument in In re National Security Letter, Under Seal... -
Panetta Slams White House on Iraq Withdrawal
A big Monday-morning quarterback question since ISIL began overrunning parts of Iraq as Iraqi military forces collapsed has been whether the United States should have kept in place a significant residual... -
Whistleblowers, Leaks and the Media: The First Amendment and National Security
Permit me a small amount of self-promotion, with apologies. But ABA Publishing has, today, released a new book, Whistleblowers, Leaks and the Media: The First Amendment and National Security, of which I... -
Khorasan: Not Quite Out of Nowhere
In a post this weekend, to which both Jack and Ben have already written responses, Glenn Greenwald suggests the Khorasan group is a "wholesale concoction" that appeared "seemingly out of nowhere" in the ... -
In Spate of New ATS Decisions, Courts Are Divided About Meaning of Kiobel's "Touch and Concern" Standard
During the last several weeks, four different federal courts have issued decisions in high-profile and long-running ATS suits against U.S. corporations, all addressing whether the conduct of the defendan... -
Update: UK Parliament Authorizes Airstrikes in Iraq
Debate has ended and the British Parliament has authorized airstrikes in Iraq by a vote of 524-43. -
President Obama on the Structural Nature of Transnational Terror
President Obama’s UN speech yesterday morning, as expected, focused heavily on transnational security issues, specifically the US-led air campaign against ISIS in Syria and Iraq. But he also touched on s... -
Speaking the Law: Chapters 4 and 5
The Hoover Institution has released Chapter 4 and Chapter 5 of our serialized book: Speaking the Law: The Obama Administration’s Addresses on National Security Law. -
House Amendment to Arm Syrian Rebels
The House Rules Committee has released an amendment to the Continuing Resolution (CR) that would authorize the Department of Defense to begin arming and training moderate Syrian rebels as identified by t...
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