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Yesterday, I raised issues regarding the review group’s process and deliberations. Today’s post focuses on several of the major themes of the report. Tomorrow’s third, and final, post will address what m...
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I confess that I was not expecting the first response to my posts analyzing the Review Group recommendations would be one accusing me of going soft on the Review Group. But today, Stewart Baker, former N...
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Over the past week and a half, writers on this site have provided comprehensive and detailed summaries of the surveillance review group report, along with some observations and assessments, as well as sh...
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As Raffaela previously noted, the case of Abdullah v. Obama is an exercise in "heel dragging and losing arguments." A brief refresher on the case: the legal saga started when Guantanamo detainee Hani Sal...
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On Friday Jack offered some thoughts on Evgeny Morozov's piece in the Financial Times about the broader implications of the Snowden revelations, overlooked by those intent on fitting each new leak into a...
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As Raffaela reported, on Friday Judge William H. Pauley III of the Southern District of New York held that bulk telephony metadata collection under Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act is lawful, and therefore...
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Shortly before Christmas, counsel for Guantanamo detainee Mukhtar Yahia Naji Al Warafi filed a petition for a writ of certiorari in his habeas petition, having been denied earlier this year an en banc re...
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When President Obama signed the NDAA of 2014 yesterday, the Act did not include the amendment to the Anti-Terrorism Act, about which I posted earlier this month that would have allowed suits by non-US na...
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In response to the government's brief, counsel for the Plaintiffs in Al Laithi v. Rumsfeld et. al. filed a reply brief on Dec. 18th. (The Plaintiffs---all former Guantanamo detainees---allege various a...
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Evgeny Morosov has an interesting piece in the FT that asks about the broader and mostly ignored implications of Snowden’s revelations about the scope of NSA surveillance. He argues that controlling the...
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Marty Lederman has a good summary of the highlights of the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies at Just Security. And he and David Cole have a lengthy post on what th...