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Yesterday the President acknowledged that the United States inadvertently killed an American citizen and an Italian citizen held hostage by al-Qaida. The killings, he said, took place during “a U.S.
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Breaking news from the New York Times:
The White House acknowledged on Thursday that two hostages held by Al Qaeda were accidentally killed in an American government counterterrorism
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Six Somali-American men from the Minneapolis area have been arrested on material support charges, based on allegations that they were attempting to travel to Syria to join ISIL. The complaint and corresp...
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It's getting hard to keep track of the U.S. intelligence community leakers without a scorecard.
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Published by University of Texas Press (2013)
Reviewed by Julius Taranto
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For the past couple of weeks, a Saudi-led coalition has been engaged in a substantial air campaign against Houthi forces in Yemen.
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The Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI) has released a new report that documents civilian casualties caused by U.S. drone strikes in Yemen.
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In preparing for a lecture that I need to give that includes a discussion of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, I once again came across the (true) claim that the FISA court (FISC) denies only a ...
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The Brennan Center’s Liza Goitein and Faiza Patel have posted a response to my post of last week challenging three of their recommendations in their recent report on the FISA Court. This post is a brief...
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Our friend Carrie Cordero has levied criticisms against three of the recommendations presented in our report, What Went Wrong With the FISA Court. We appreciate, as always, her constructive engagement wi...
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Tick. Tick. Tick.
That's the sound of time slipping away before the June 1 sunset of the Patriot Act 215 provision. We're now within two months of the sunset. Congress does not seem to be bestirring its...
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From the FISC’s website:
“The Chief Justice has designated Judge James P. Jones of the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia and Judge Thomas B. Russell of the United States ...