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Greg Miller of the Washington Post has this excellent profile of Roger, the enigmatic head of the CIA Counterterrorism Center and a principle architect of the drones program.
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Earlier this week I published a piece on the Foreign Policy page that defended the legal infrastructure for the Obama’s administration’s targeted killing program. At the end I made the following proposa...
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An administration official sends in the following in response to Andy Worthington's critique of the DNI's recidivism numbers:
How I wish he were right. But he isn’t.
The DNI numbers usefully distingu...
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British journalist Andy Worthington offers this critique of the recent DNI report on Guantanamo recidivism--and of the press coverage of the report.
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The American Civil Liberties Union has filed its opening brief in its appeal of the District Court of the District of Columbia's granting of a motion for summary judgment for the Central Intelligence Age...
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No commentary necessary:
Could The Use Of Flying Death Robots Be Hurting America's Reputation Worldwide?
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The more I think about Attorney General Holder's defense of targeted killings in his speech @ Northwestern last Monday--and the various reactions thereto--the more confused I become. To be sure, this con...
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House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member and Sen. Mark Udall have proposed a brief bill that would make two significant changes to the NDAA's detention provisions. The bill, a fact sheet about which...
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Peter Feaver has an insightful post at Shadow Government concerning yesterday's exchange between Secretary Panetta and Senator Sessions regarding the administration's position on whose authorization it m...
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In the ongoing debate over the use of lethal force against persons located outside Afghanistan, the suggestion is often made (both by supporters and critics of US government policies) that Afghanistan is...
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Former NSC Legal Adviser Richard Klingler, now a partner at Sidley Austin, writes in with the following important observation in relation to Holder’s speech and my commentary thereon. He raises a really ...