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I've written a lot over the years about the way law responds to changing practical phenomena such as the emergence of non-state actors as a strategic threat, ala al Qaeda, as have many others. This vein...
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There are few topics more slippery--and more emblematic of the current age--than the intersection of transnational organized crime, narcotics, illicit arms, and violent non-state actors. On that front, ...
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Over at the Weekly Standard, Thomas Joscelyn has a response to Bobby and my earlier response to his response to our responses (here and here) to his piece on Matthew Olsen.
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Several House committee chairs have sent this letter regarding the Warsame case to President Obama.
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A new Congressional Research Service report reviews provisions in the competing versions of the National Defense Authorization Act regarding detainee affairs. Here is a summary of the report's findings:
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A quick thought in response to the very interesting exchange underway between Ben and Kevin (the most recent contribution to it is here). In an update to an earlier post, Kevin writes:
Ben is quite righ...
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( A joint response from Benjamin Wittes and Bobby Chesney)
On Thursday we criticized a piece by Thomas Joscelyn at The Weekly Standard concerning Matt Olsen and the GTMO Review Task Force, in which Josc...
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No sooner had I posted my comment on Monday about the DC Circuit’s Alien Tort Statute decision in the ExxonMobil case than the Seventh Circuit issued its own decision on the question of corporate ATS lia...
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In the aftermath of Harold Koh's testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee a few weeks ago, Senator Lugar sent a set of QFRs (Questions for the Record) that raised a number of interesting q...
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I want to pile on to Ben's post in defense of NCTC nominee Matt Olsen. Ben notes that some are intimating that Matt somehow is soft on terrorism because the GTMO Review Task Force concluded that some ex...
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I was afraid that the nomination of Matthew Olsen to head NCTC would head in this direction.
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Thomas Barnett has an interesting post at Battleland playing off Thom Shanker's piece in the Times today regarding biometrics and security in Afghanistan. Barnett's point: such measures are more likely ...