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In the wake of Thursday’s violence, many press reports began to state that the violence in Ukraine was heading toward---or constituted---a civil war. See here, here, and here. The press was using this t...
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Today D.C. Circuit Judges David Tatel, Janice Rogers Brown, and A. Raymond Randolph will hear oral arguments in Al Laithi v. Rumsfeld.
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As I noted in an earlier post, the UK High Court in an opinion by Lord Justice John Laws dismissed David Miranda’s suit challenging his detention by the Metropolitan Police at London’s Heathrow Airport o...
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Over the weekend, I blogged over at Just Security about the al-Iraqi case pending before the military commissions at Guantánamo—and, in particular, Saturday’s New York Times story reporting that the gove...
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Editor’s Note: Cooperation among terrorist groups is dangerous, making them far more flexible and lethal in their operations. Yet such cooperation is rare, and when it occurs it can be fraught with prob...
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I am amused today by these two headlines about the IMF's just-released assessment of Iran's economy and the effects of remaining sanctions: the New York Times reports that I.M.F.
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As I suggested last month, the Snowden disclosures are going to drive even our European allies to doubt America's bona fides as a steward of the internet. Thus, we should not be surprised to learn that ...
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Karen DeYoung and Greg Miller report in the WP that Al-Qaeda’s recent expulsion of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has raised questions about whether the AUMF “still applies” to ISIS.
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Some thoughts on this morning’s drone strike news (NYT, WSJ).
The NYT says that President Obama’s announcement last May of an intention “to gradually shift drone operations from the C
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Over at Politico, Josh Gerstein has an interesting piece on the Ali piracy case, and its potential implications for terrorism cases. The article---which quotes Jen Daskal and Cully Stimson, among others...
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Kimberly Dozier AP reports this morning that "[a]n American citizen who is a member of al-Qaida is actively planning attacks against Americans overseas, . . .