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The fate of the case, Al Janko v. Gates, before the D.C.
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Two human rights groups released reports today on civilian casualties from selected drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen. Amnesty International's "Will I Be Next?" US Drone Strikes in Pakistan investigate...
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The beginnings of a Maryland autumn can be discerned outside Fort Meade’s Smallwood Hall. Inside, the by-now familiar CCTV screen comes to life and displays an empty judicial bench, the Joint Task Force...
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Tuesday morning, a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit will hear oral arguments in Al Janko v. Gates, an appeal of a damages action brought by a former Guantanamo detainee against various government of...
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One theme of Ben Emmerson’s interim report on remotely piloted aircraft and targeted killings is that governments must be more transparent with regard to any civilian deaths they cause. It’s easy to fin...
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You can find the interim report---the final won't be submitted to the U.N. Human Rights Council until 2014, apparently---here.
There's a good bit to pore over in the paper authored by Emmerson, with who...
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In response to the government shutdown at home, President Obama decided last week to cancel his planned participation in a series of Asian and Pacific summits.
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Mary DeRosa and Marty Lederman, both of whom were senior national security lawyers in the Obama administration, have a helpful if somewhat hopeful post at Just Security on the significance of the recent ...
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One of the most significant questions in cyberspace is the long term governance of the domain. For years the United States has had an influential role in that governance (mostly, in my view, to the bene...
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While no navy captain likes stormy weather, the controversy over the temporary detention on a navy vessel of the captured Al Qaeda leader Abu Anas al-Libi is a tempest in a teapot. As John Bellinger not...
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The splendidly quotable title quote - "Clearly, drones are the future for dull or dangerous missions" - comes from Dan Jangblad , chief strategy officer for Sweden's aerospace company, Saab AB, by way ...
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Just as the great post-2008 wave of GTMO habeas litigation winds down, it appears to be time, at last, to revive the Periodic Review Board system at GTMO.
DOD breaks the news here (text reprinted below ...