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As close readers of Lawfare will be aware (but many others will not) the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) will be meeting next month in Dubai. The ITU, a relative backwater of the UN, has lon...
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Speaking of responses to my comments on the New York Times debate, Andrea Prasow of Human Rights Watch---who participated in the discussion---sends in the following:
Ben seems to find it boring that Huma...
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Ben notes what appears to be a draft proposal from Senator Rand Paul to amend the NDAA so as to address situations involving American citizens captured inside the United States. While the context sugges...
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A source sent me a copy of this email, apparently from Senator Rand Paul's office last week to Republican Senate legislative directors about a coming amendment by the senator to restrict military detenti...
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I spent a flight out to Minnesota yesterday reflecting on Jack's and Trevor's discussion over the weekend of Obama's first term, his coming second term, the Bush administration, and the now-will-never-be...
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While I am sure we differ in emphasis and details, I agree with the thrust of Trevor’s latest post. As I argued in my last two books, the early Bush administration approach to presidential power was, in...
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I appreciate Jack's follow-up post on the larger picture of the Obama administration's counterterrorism policies and their points of continuity with the Bush administration (though only the late Bush, as...
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When I wrote on Friday about the “basic counterterrorism policies that Obama continued, with tweaks, from the late Bush administration,” I meant to refer only to policies that “Obama continued” from the ...
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I agree with much of what Jack says in his recent post about the counterterrorism issues likely to face President Obama in his second term.
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David Remes, who represents several Yemeni detainees at Guantanamo Bay, writes in response to my comments this morning on Eric Lewis's New York Times column:
Ben chides Eric Lewis for setting goals Ben t...
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So reports NBC News, which apparently obtained a copy of Petraeus' statement to the CIA workforce. From the NBC report's opening:
CIA Director David Petraeus resigned Friday, citing an extramarital affa...
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Back in June, I wrote a fairly lengthy post analyzing the ability of detainees in U.S. custody facing extradition or other involuntary transfer to a foreign sovereign to challenge their transfer pursuant...