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Politico reports that Senate and House negotiators have reached an agreement on the NDAA, with votes in both houses expected later this week...and then, on to the White House. The full text is available...
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit recently issued a decision that has the effect of both limiting political branch control over human rights suits against foreign officials while at the sa...
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I may be exiled from the blog for saying this, but the New York Times has an excellent analysis of the recently concluded WCIT treaty meeting in Dubai in today's paper. It begins:
At the global treaty c...
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Here is the White House's supplemental consolidated report regarding the deployment of U.S. armed forces. The report is addressed to the Speaker of the House, and was---in the President's words---"prepa...
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Today, lawyers for Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, and other federal officials sued in their individual capacities, filed a motion to dismiss in the case of Al-Aulaqi v.
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As you may have read by now (reports from the New York Times and Washington Post are pretty good), that the WCIT conference has ended in disarray. The United States and a number of other Western countr...
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The Times has an op-ed today on the WCIT conference in Dubai. Who knows, maybe this is one Ben will agree with.
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For those who have been following the ITU's conference in Dubai on international internet governance (about which both Jack and I have written previously), this interesting bit of news: Apparently the m...
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As Ritika already noted, George Will has a column in today's Washington Post about drones and targeted killing. In it, he poses a question lots of people ask about drone strikes and that warrants a momen...
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Back in early November, Ben and I blogged about Fordham Professor Andrew Kent's provocative new essay, "Do Boumediene Rights Expire?," which he published in "PENNumbra," the online companion to the Unive...
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Over the weekend, the United Kingdom joined the United States in warning publicly about Syria’s intentions regarding its chemical weapons. Foreign Secretary William Hague told reporters that the U.K.
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The Congressional Research Service published on December 4 a report entitled “Detention of U.S. Persons as Enemy Belligerents,” which the Federation of American Scientists has posted. Its summary reads:
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