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[Note: I'd originally indicated that Greg Miller wrote this second piece in the Post series, but in fact it was Karen de Young -- my apologies to Karen!
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There were basically none. No discussion of Guantanamo, of habeas, of the NDAA, of interrogation, of military commissions, of targeted killing---and only the most cursory mention of drone strikes. This i...
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I've recently completed a short (10-page) draft meant to serve as a primer on key domestic law questions associated with computer network operations. The paper will be published as part of the proceedin...
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The President had this to say about issues of interest to readers of the blog:
Obama: There are some things that we haven't gotten done. I still want to close Guantanamo. We haven’t been able to get th...
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I saw the movie Argo last weekend. It's an excellent film, and as readers likely know already, its subject is a real covert action. After seeing it, I became curious about how accurate a portrayal of the...
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Here's the latest fromthe Washington Post,on the Espionage Act, Intelligence Identities Protection Act, and false statements case against John Kiriakou, the former CIA officer who helped capture Abu Zuba...
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This slipped by me on Friday, when I was in Cambridge plotting the next phase of Lawfare's expansion. The D.C. Circuit has issued an unredacted opinion in this case, Ameziane v. Obama, which actually cam...
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Earlier today I argued that a Romney administration would not pursue significantly different counterterrorism policies than a second Obama administration. Below I note three caveats to this claim, and I...
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Last week Ben argued that, despite the Romney Team memo on interrogation and Romney’s promise to use “enhanced” interrogation techniques, a President Romney would not change the Obama interrogation polic...
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This is a big deal.
The district court (in the person of Judge Edward Lodge of the District of Idaho) has entered partial summary judgment for the plaintiffs in Al-Kidd v.
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Jack linked yesterday to this Charlie Savage story about this internal Romney campaign draft memo urging a full-throated embrace of “enhanced interrogation”---written a year ago by Romney’s “national sec...
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The DoD has distributed a memo to its employees explaining its stance on Mark Owen's book No Easy Day, and I've got it right here (they even give the book an acronym!). It lays out guidelines for how Pen...