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The latest public development in the long-running fight over the detention provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act occurred last Friday when a group of 13 Senate Democrats (all the Democrats...
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I awoke this morning to a genuine marvel: An actual real-live correction to a New York Times editorial on a national security issue. It reads as follows:
This article has been revised to reflect the foll...
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Over at Opinio Juris, Lawfare Book Review Editor Ken Anderson raises a series of important questions about the CIA drone program. In that post, Ken very kindly notes the relationship of these questions ...
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Judge Reggie Walton today dismissed on standing grounds the lawsuit challenging the legality of the military operation in Libya (via Josh Gerstein). The decision was not remotely surprising, and indeed ...
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Here is the text of Pentagon General Counsel Jeh Johnson's comments on AUMF reaffirmation, which I discussed yesterday in this post:
CULLY STIMSON: . . . there are proposals on the Hill regarding reaffir...
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I had been waiting for the video of Pentagon General Counsel Jeh Johnson's speech at the Heritage Foundation to be released to post thoughts it. But I awoke this morning to press coverage of the speech t...
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Jeh Johnson, the General Counsel of the Department of Defense, is currently speaking about detention legislation at the Heritage Foundation. The livestream is available here.
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Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker of the NYT report that the Obama administration considered using offensive cyber-weapons in the war in Libya, but in the end did not use them. Schmitt and Shanker give seve...
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Cully Stimson (Heritage) has posted a very handy review of the pros and cons of the pending NDAA FY12 bills, highlighting both the useful and problematic aspects of that legislation. And as a reminder, ...
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The Supreme Court has granted cert in the Kiobel case, in which the Second Circuit held last fall that corporations may not be held liable for violations of the "law of nations" under the Alien Tort Stat...
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Yesterday Jack linked to this piece by Noah Feldman, which among other things advances the argument that the Obama administration has resorted to drone strikes at least in part in order to avoid having t...
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Peter Margulies writes in with an excellent summary of what sounds like a fascinating conference Friday at Boston University:
BU’s conf.