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[UPDATE (12/13/11, 9:45): A careful reader points out that in the earlier Senate bill, there were no commas after the words "United States citizens" and "lawful resident aliens of the United States". So...
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I am still digesting the new NDAA language, and I'm not yet ready to say how come out on it. It is, without question, significantly better than either the House or Senate bills. Yet some of its provision...
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The conference report for the NDAA is now available. Subtitle D, entitled "Counterterrorism," begins on page 653 and runs through page 685. The conferees' explanation of their choices begins on page 158 ...
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Canadian forces may be largely on their way out of Afghanistan, but for a Kabul-based contingent focused on training Afghans, but the prospect that they might nonetheless in the position of capturing a p...
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A host of recent events--Iran's shoot-down of a U.S. drone, the downward spiral in US-Pakistani relations, and rumors of peace talks between the Pakistani government and Pakistani extremist groups--combi...
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Whatever else one might say about the D.C. Circuit's jurisprudence in the Guantanamo litigation, it's certainly been a jobs program...
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President Obama's chief counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, has given an extended interview to NPR on the administration's view of the NDAA's detainee affairs provision and its threat to veto the leg...
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More amusing nonsense from Jon Stewart before the weekend:
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In a prior post surveying the impact of the Senate version of the NDAA bill (currently in conference negotiations), I emphasized that the Feinstein Amendment made clear that the NDAA did not alter, one w...
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There's barely a true fact in it, but it's very funny:
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The following is a continuation of our side-by-side comparison of the House and Senate versions of the NDAA:
Prohibition of Detainee Transfer to the United States
The House version of the bill (Section 1...
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[UPDATE (12/9/11): See here for my updated assessment as to US citizens captured abroad.]
On the day that the Senate passed its version of the NDAA, I wrote a post in the morning addressing whether the ...