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Live Feed of HPSCI Hearing on Potential Changes to FISA [Update: hearing now complete]

[Update (5:15 pm): The HPSCI Hearing on Potential Changes to FISA is now complete.  Recorded video of the hearing testimony is provided below in two parts, due to the length of…
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My Written Statement for Tomorrow’s HPSCI “NSA Programs” Hearing

Tomorrow afternoon beginning at 1:30, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (“HPSCI”) is holding a rare open hearing, the subject of which is “NSA…
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A New War?: The United States Involvement in Yemen’s Internal Armed Conflict [Updated]

In an op-ed in the Guardian last week, I argued that the United States appears to have become militarily directly involved in fighting a domestic insurgency in Yemen as an ally…
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Laura Donohue’s Comprehensive Case Against Bulk Metadata Collection

Our good friend and Georgetown Law Professor Laura Donohue has been kind enough to share with us an advance draft of her latest article, “Bulk Metadata Collection: Statutory…
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IHL, Transparency, and the Heyns’ UN Drones Report

In his critique of Christof Heyns’ new UN report on the right to life in the context of lethal drone strikes, Eric Jensen erects two straw men and then proceeds to knock them…
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The Report of the UN Special Rapporteur for Extrajudicial Executions: Law or Advocacy?

As has already been discussed in several postings, the report of the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions has been published and deserves close attention.  To the…
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The Problematic “Belonging To” Analogy: A Response to Goodman

[Editor’s note: Ryan Goodman replies to Professor Heller in a subsequent post.] In a recent post here at Just Security, Ryan Goodman offered a novel – and characteristically…
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A Federal Shield Law is Needed to Protect Confidential Sources and the Public’s Right to Know: A Reply to David Pozen

[The post below is part of an exchange between Dave Pozen and Sophia Cope on media shield laws and the recently proposed Free Flow of Information Act.  Don’t miss Dave’s…
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Why a Media Shield Law May Be a Sieve

[The post below is part of an exchange between Dave Pozen and Sophia Cope on media shield laws and the recently proposed Free Flow of Information Act.  Don’t miss Sophia’s…
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Al-Qaeda, the Law on Associated Forces and “Belonging to” a Party (did the new UN drones reports get it right?)

[Editor’s note: Kevin Jon Heller responds to Ryan in a Guest Post, and Ryan replies in a subsequent post. A Guest Post by UN Special Rapporteur Christof Heyns also addresses…
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We All Go Down Together: NSA Programs Overseas Violate Americans’ Privacy, Yet Escape FISC, Congressional Oversight

Ongoing revelations show that significant NSA surveillance activities take place outside of either Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) or congressional oversight, even…
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The President’s May 23d NDU Speech in Action: The Broader Significance of the al-Liby and Ikrima Operations [UPDATED Oct. 15]

If reported accounts thus far are accurate, the al-Liby and Ikrima capture operations last weekend are important illustrations of several things that the President and his top…
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