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Both the NYT Becker-Shane “Kill List” story and the Klaidman book excerpt have implications for the pending ACLU FOIA suit in CADC, which seeks CIA records on CIA drone strikes.
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A couple of months ago, Hugo Rosemont, a Security Policy Adviser to the UK security industry and a doctoral student, sent in this account of the controversy in Britain over a government proposal to allow...
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A number of sources are reporting the discovery of a complex malware toolkit, mostly described as "Flame," which appears to have been distributed in a targeted fashion to infect computers in Iran in part...
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The New York Times published an editorial yesterday criticizing Monday's decision by the Second Circuit in ACLU v.
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I've gotten lots of helpful feedback both on- and offline re: yesterday's post on Clapper v. Amnesty International, and wanted to write in a bit more detail about (my understanding of) the foreign intell...
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A senior government lawyer writes in with the following thought on the Pakistani sentencing of Dr. Shakil Afridi, the doctor who helped the CIA locate Osama Bin Laden:
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In light of the Supreme Court's grant of certiorari yesterday to review the Second Circuit's decision in Clapper v. Amnesty International, I thought I'd put together a background post trying to explain w...
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Ben noted the non-action on the cert. petitions in the Guantanamo cases (which probably means either that the Justices aren't sure what to do, or that someone is publishing a dissent from the decision to...
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Our friends over at Opinio Juris are hosting a neat online symposium discussion of Professor Laura Dickinson's book Outsourcing War and Peace: Preserving Public Values in a World of Privatized Foreign Af...
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I've now had more of a chance to read through Judge Forrest's decision Wednesday in Hedges v. Obama, which (seems to) enter a preliminary injunction against some or all of section 1021 of the FY2012 Nati...
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As usual, SCOTUSblog has a helpful post summarizing some of the key petitions for certiorari that the Supreme Court's nine Justices are set to review at their Conference this Friday. I just thought I'd f...