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I am a little perplexed by Steve's response to my critique of the AUMF principles he helped write. Steve accuses me of "hiding the ball." But he seems to me, rather, to be moving the goalposts.
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In his post this morning, Ben identifies what he calls "flaws" with three of the six principles for a use-of-force authorization for ISIL that were introduced yesterday by a group of legal experts (that ...
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By coincidence, the same day that Jack, Bobby, Matt and I released our draft AUMF text, a group associated with Just Security released a document entitled "Principles to Guide Congressional Authorization...
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President Obama said last week that he wants an AUMF for the ISIL conflict, and he further stated that he wants to “right-size and update whatever authorization Congress provides to suit the current figh...
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On Friday, Judge Gladys Kessler of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia denied detainee Abu Wa'el Dhiab's bid for a preliminary injunction against certain Guantanamo force-feedin...
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ICYMI, GTMO policy folks: Matt Danzer's final round of digests on last week's hearing in United States v. Al-Nashiri can be found below, and in our "Events Coverage" section. (Earlier coverage of the he...
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Thursday's session opens with an update on AE 284, the defense motion seeking Skype calls for Al-Nashiri, from prosecution attorney Col. Robert Moscati. The prosecution has learned that the Guantanamo ad...
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The final session for the day begins with AE 314C, a defense motion to compel testimony at the hearing on a defense motion to suppress statements made by Al-Nashiri. Capt.
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On Wednesday morning at 10 a.m.
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The parties return for the afternoon session and Judge Spath begins by laying out his thinking on the previous motion seeking supervised telephone and Skype calls between Al-Nashiri and his family. In th...
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In August I described a politically palatable AUMF against the Islamic State (IS). What was politically palatable in August is not necessarily politically palatable after three months of air strikes, ho...
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Hey GTMO fans: the estimable Matt Danzer's digests of yesterday's hearing in this capital Guantanamo military commissions case can be found below, and in our "Events Coverage" section.
Keep an eye on th...