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I have posted previously about a criminal investigation in Poland targeting the former head of Poland's intelligence service, based on his alleged cooperation in establishing a CIA black site on Polish t...
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I noted last week than in his answer to the question whether the Obama administration could “carry out drone strikes inside the United States,” John Brennan gave this non-response: “This Administration h...
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The House Judiciary Committee has released the witness list for its coming, February 27 hearing on "Drones and the War On Terror: When Can the U.S. Target Alleged American Terrorists Overseas?" Careful L...
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Yesterday, the AP released an English translation of what appears to be a 2011 Al Qaeda tip sheet. (AP journalists evidently found the document in Timbuktu.) Its author, AQAP senior commander Abdullah ...
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For those who can't get in to the Supreme Court oral argument in Shelby County v. Holder, and who aren't otherwise enticed by the Journal of National Security Law & Policy's inaugural symposium, "Swimmin...
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Yesterday, as I noted in today’s news roundup, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan released its annual report on civilian casualties (defined as both direct and indirect deaths and injur...
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Ryan Goodman follows up his EJIL draft with a briefer and more pointed version of the argument in Slate.
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As the co-creator of the Lawfare Drone Smackdown and the publisher (though not the baker) of this drone strike cake, I should perhaps check myself before cringing at other people's drone humor. But I can...
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Over at the emptywheel blog, Ms. Wheel (aka Marcy Wheeler) has done a handy side-by-side of Attorney General Holder's Northwestern speech and the leaked White Paper.
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Carrie Cordero, Georgetown’s Director of National Security Studies and a former Justice Department national security official, writes in with the following thoughts on the FISA Court and its lessons for ...
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Further to Jack's post yesterday on the politics of drones versus enhanced interrogation, and my post earlier in the week about Peter Baker's article about the mounting criticism of the Obama Administrat...
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I'm not sure if this is by accident or on purpose, but the New York Times yesterday proposed advanced judicial review of a huge swath of targeting in warfare against terrorist groups.
Consider the first...