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Editor’s Note: The conquest of Mosul and other cities in Iraq by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has alarmed the United States and its allies and electrified the Sunni jihadist community. On M...
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That is the title of a NYT story this morning by Landler, Gordon, and Mazzetti. The “Blueprint” they have in mind is the one the President laid out at West Point, which (in their words) "relies less on ...
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Ahmed Abu Khattala is not the first person to be whisked onto a ship in the Middle East by U.S. forces, interrogated aboard, and then dropped in a U.S. court. There are some recent famous cases, of cours...
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While the rest of the world is watching the Supreme Court's final decision day of the year, it's been a busy time in the cyber world as well. Herewith seven (!) bits and bytes of interest, in no particu...
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From the Borowitz Report at the New Yorker. Pretty excellent.
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Editor's Note: The war in Syria has attracted volunteers to fight from around the world, including from the United States. Although senior U.S. officials have warned of this threat, the legal foundation ...
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I'm surprised this hasn't generated more attention: First, an article in the New York Times yesterday mentioned, right at the very end, the possibility that in addition to the 300 special operators heade...
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As we have noted in the past, there is a brewing fight over who controls the naming function for the internet. I suspect that some who've read these posts have wondered if they were truly germane to nat...
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Footnote 44 of the recently released and much-discussed OLC Awlaki memorandum is heavily redacted, but what's left reads, in part:
Nor would the fact that CIA personnel would be involved in the operat...
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President Obama yesterday sent the letter to the Speaker of the House, and to the President Pro Tempore of the Senate. Its text reads as follows:
Dear Mr. Speaker: (Dear Mr. President:)
As I reported o...
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The Stimson Center released today the report of its Task Force on US Drone Policy. The ten-member task force, of which I was a member, was chaired by General John Abizaid and Rosa Brooks. The report m...
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The other day, I tried to read the tea leaves and figure out where the notion of "imminent threat" comes from in the administration's legal views of targeted killing. I speculated that the source of the ...