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As Andrew Rosenthal noted in yesterday's New York Times, things seem to be heating up in Congress with respect to whether--and to what extent--the September 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (...
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Earlier today, former State Department Legal Adviser Harold Koh gave a talk at the Oxford Union, entitled "How to End the Forever War?" His remarks begin as follows:
Thank you, Mr. President and Members...
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I have been fretting for the last few weeks about the amount of misinformation that has been floating around the press coverage---and particularly the commentary---of the Guantanamo hunger strikes. But I...
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In recent weeks, a coalition of NGOs launched a global campaign to ban "killer robots," or fully autonomous weapon systems (see reporting here). Its statement calls "for urgent action to preemptively ba...
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This morning, a gentleman named Sina Kashefipour, who tweets on national security-related matters under the improbable moniker @rejectionking, came by my office to interview me for a podcast he runs on n...
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Next Thursday, the Supreme Court will decide whether or not to grant certiorari in United States v. Ali--the case in which the highest court in the military justice system, the Court of Appeals for the A...
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As Raff noted last week, the lawyers for the defendant-appellant in United States v. al-Bahlul--the military commission case in which the D.C.
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While we are on the subject of Mark Mazzetti’s The Way of the Knife, and for that matter while we are speaking of Mali, check out this Washington Post report on U.S.
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What is happening in Mali to people who are captured rather than killed by French, Chadian, or Malian forces? I asked this in February, but so far as I know the question remains unanswered in the public...
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On the Sunday talk shows, various members of Congress exhorted the United States to increase its assistance to the Syrian rebels, whether by providing them with additional (lethal) equipment, or by estab...
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I confess myself mystified by President Obama's comments about Guantanamo this morning. Here is what the President said---with the parts I find confusing bolded:
QUESTION: Mr. President, as you're probab...