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I've gotten lots of helpful feedback both on- and offline re: yesterday's post on Clapper v. Amnesty International, and wanted to write in a bit more detail about (my understanding of) the foreign intell...
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Something to mull, while Judge Pohl ponders severance in the 9/11 case: whether the government’s evidence in the still-far-off-in-the-future military commission trial (or trials) also could be admitted i...
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In light of the Supreme Court's grant of certiorari yesterday to review the Second Circuit's decision in Clapper v. Amnesty International, I thought I'd put together a background post trying to explain w...
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Amidst all the discussion of whether and how to amend the House NDAA bill to address domestic captures, I am amazed that I did not notice the Rooney Amendment, which has been adopted. What does it do? ...
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You want it? You've got it.
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The Hill's Defcon blog has the scoop: in votes today regarding the rules for detention under the FY2013 NDAA, the House rejected the Smith-Amash amendment in a 238-182 largely party-line vote (19 Democra...
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I haven't read these yet, but here is the government's supplemental brief in Hedges, and the transcript of the hearing in the district court. I'll have comments on them, if appropriate, once I've had a ...
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Over at the Empty Wheel blog, The Estimable Ms.
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In my post this morning on Hedges, I wondered whether government counsel had made the court aware of the Obama administration's strong position against military detention for citizens and for anyone capt...
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By now you've gotten the lowdown - from Steve, Bobby, Ben or from some or all of them - about yesterday's puzzling decision in Hedges v.
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I am as perplexed by yesterday's Hedges decision as either Steve and Bobby--and largely agree with both of their posts on the subject.