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DOJ OLC Targeted Killing Memo Released

This morning the 2nd Circuit published a redacted version of the long-sought Department of Justice OLC memo that authorized the killing of U.S. citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki. We’ve…

Jun. 23, 2014 Thomas Earnest

Backgrounder for Release of OLC’s Targeted Killing Memo

As Jameel discussed in an important post—“The Drone Memo Cometh”—the Second Circuit appears poised to publish the Office of Legal Counsel’s memorandum on the targeted…

Jun. 23, 2014 Ryan Goodman

GTMO Transfer Bans Run Amok

A few weeks ago, I wrote about a disturbing provision that was added at the last minute to the Senate Armed Services Committee’s version of the National Defense Authorization…

Jun. 23, 2014 Jennifer Daskal

The Drone Memo Cometh

“Severe Clear,” a project by artist David Birkin. Skywriting appears over New York City in a celestial “Glomar” response. For more, see Birkin’s post here. In…

Jun. 21, 2014 Jameel Jaffer

The Trial of Ex-Blackwater: An Overview of the Competing Stories

Opening statements in the trial of the four Blackwater members alleged to have carried out the killings in Nisour Square, Baghdad, Iraq ended in Washington D.C. this week. On Tuesday…

Jun. 20, 2014 James G. Stewart

10 Years of Drone Strikes in Pakistan–but do you know whether it’s an “area of active hostilities”?

Today marks the ten-year anniversary of the first reported US drone strike in Pakistan (punctuated by another one today). Yet there is still official silence about a crucial…

Jun. 18, 2014 Ryan Goodman and Thomas Earnest

U.S. Captures Suspected Benghazi “Ringleader” Ahmed abu Khattalah

The breaking news this morning is that the U.S. Special Ops forces have captured Ahmed Abu Khattala, a suspected ringleader of the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya. Government…

Jun. 17, 2014 Thomas Earnest

A Second Chance for the Obama Administration on “Battlefield” Contractor Liability

One of the stranger briefs filed by the Office of the Solicitor General during the Obama Administration was the brief filed in response to the Supreme Court’s request (“CVSG”)…

Jun. 16, 2014 Steve Vladeck

Autonomous Weapons Debate: Three issues for further consideration

As recently reported by Sarah Knuckey and Bonnie Docherty, the “Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) Informal Meeting of Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems” was held…

Jun. 13, 2014 Ian Scott Henderson

Clapper to Hagel: Taliban 5 return to battle “will not appreciably change the threat” to US or Afghanistan

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel testified before the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday about the prisoner exchange involving Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl and five Guantanamo detainees…

Jun. 11, 2014 Ryan Goodman

Secretary Hagel’s defense of the Bergdahl deal [UPDATED]

[slightly updated for clarification and to account for testimony during the hearing] The Secretary of Defense is testifying at a HASC hearing beginning now. Here are his prepared…

Jun. 11, 2014 Marty Lederman

Congress Clearly Contemplated Prisoner Exchanges as Part of NDAA Notification Requirements–and so did the White House

Some think the following is the Obama administration’s main argument for bypassing Congress in transferring the 5 Taliban detainees from Guantanamo: Congress did not contemplate…

Jun. 10, 2014 Ryan Goodman

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