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Via Steve Aftergood, I learned that the CIA “has posted hundreds of declassified and unclassified articles from its in-house journal Studies in Intelligence.” The articles are
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Readers likely recall that last week, documents from the In Re Directives litigation, regarding foreign intelligence surveillance directives issued to Yahoo!, were declassified.
Chief among them: a new ...
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Last week appellees in Klayman v. Obama filed a motion for the court's leave to televise the oral argument, scheduled for November 4, 2014. The D.C.
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Late last week, the Department of Justice released two memos authored by Lawfare's own Jack Goldsmith back when he was the head of the Office of Legal Counsel ("OLC") in the Bush Administration. The memo...
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The Foreign Intelligence Court of Review ("FISCR") issued this order today. It concerns the FISC's 2008 opinion in In Re Directives, an appeal brought by Yahoo! and regarding directives for warrantless e...
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U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke has re-sentenced Jose Padilla to 21 years in prison for his 2007 conviction for conspiracy to murder, kidnap, and main individuals in a foreign country; conspiracy to pr...
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This Friday, the U.N. Human Rights Council will hold a session to discuss the right to privacy in the digital age. The Council is considering these issues in the wake of a General Assembly Resolution ado...
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Yesterday Kevin Heller and I exchanged views on the possible sources of domestic authorization for the CIA to conduct drone strikes.
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The Department of Justice recently released two Office of Legal Counsel opinions by Lawfare's own Jack Goldsmith from 2004. The first memo provides a lengthy and at times heavily-redacted justification f...
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In a pair of posts (here and here), Kevin Heller at Opinio Juris explores a very interesting question: What exactly is the domestic legal foundation for the CIA’s use of lethal force given that the 2001 ...
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It looks like it's time for Lawfare to update an old post of ours, "Who is Saying What about the Leahy Surveillance Bill."
On September 2, Attorney General Eric Holder and Director of National Intellig...