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As Bobby noted earlier, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is holding a hearing entitled: "Authorization For Use Of Military Force After Iraq And Afghanistan."
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A group convened by the Center for Strategic and International Studies has issued a Statement of Principles for rebuilding trust in intelligence activities. It is signed by the following people:
Charle...
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The best review I have seen of Glenn Greenwald’s new book No Place to Hide is by David Cole in the Washington Post, who concludes:
This is an important and illuminating book.
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"I believe that killing an American citizen without a trial is an extraordinary concept and deserves serious debate," writes Sen. Rand Paul in an oped in the New York Times this morning. "I can’t imagine...
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On Friday I said that on a quick read, the Obama administration’s new pre-publication review policy seemed "overbroad to the point of practically unenforceable.” Friday afternoon, as Marty Lederman not...
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Charlie Savage reports:
The Obama administration is clamping down on a technique that government officials have long used to join in public discussions of well-known but technically still-secret informat...
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IC on the Record released this important announcement and new trove of declassified documents:
DNI Announces the Release of Additional Documents Related to Collection Activities Authorized by President G...
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An interesting tidbit today regarding US involvement in Yemen, from Politico's first-rate briefer Morning Defense:
MORE MILITARY SUPPORT COULD BE COMING: Shy of putting boots on the ground, the U.S. gove...
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This was bound to happen eventually, I suppose: the New York Times editorial page has gotten behind the effort to hold up David Barron's judicial nomination. Sort of. Calling Barron, whom Obama has nomin...
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The resolution at this Munk Debate in Toronto is "Be it resolved state surveillance is a legitimate defense of our freedoms." Supporting the motion are former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden and Harv...
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Has DOD failed to comply with its statutory obligation to explain to Congress how the executive branch decides which groups and persons are within the scope of the AUMF?
HASC Chairman McKeon has release...
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A very interesting article in Der Spiegel about U.S.-German relations, the NSA investigation, and Ukraine in light of Angela Merkel's recent trip to Washington. The bottom line is that the Ukraine crisis...