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Recent events have accelerated a discussion focused around creating a special court to oversee the execution of targeted killings against suspected terrorists.
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In the President's State of the Union Address, President Obama spent a fair amount of time on foreign policy and Lawfare-related matters. In addition to announcing his cybersecurity executive order, he d...
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The distraction of the NDAA and the drone controversy led me to miss two other important lawfare developments in December: the Obama Administration asserted immunity for foreign government official defen...
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John Bellinger makes note in his post below that that Obama administration faces increasing organized NGO, activist-advocacy, and European pushback on drone warfare, and he cites today's front page NYT s...
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There's been a fair amount of buzz over the past few days centered around the idea of a statutory "drone court"--a tribunal modeled after the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) that would (pr...
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Georgetown professor Anthony Clark Arend - old friend to many of us at Lawfare - has a new short post on whether judicial oversight of drones would be a good idea - or constitutional.
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Speaking of the John Brennan confirmation hearing, here's the video, courtesy of CSPAN:
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John Bellinger and Christoper Anders of the ACLU this morning had a discussion of John Brennan's testimony, drone strikes, and the administration's legal positions on CSPAN's Washington Journal this morn...
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NPR's Weekend Edition ran the following extended interview with me this morning on the subject of drone strikes, the White Paper, and the administration's legal views more generally. It isn't anything ne...
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Here's a counter-intuitive view of the White Paper--from the always-interesting Andrew Kent:
Although many critics with a strong civil liberties and human rights bent deplore the DOJ White Paper for vari...
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There is an increasing amount of talk about judicial review for at least some decisions to place specific persons on targeting lists for the use of lethal force outside of a combat zone (drones are not t...
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Amid the flurry of writing about the White Paper’s approach to “imminence” – an important conversation, to be sure – little attention has been paid to a paragraph in the White Paper that seems to establi...