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A “Hardy Perennial”: US Intelligence Operations Targeting Foreign Leaders

At Tuesday’s House Intelligence Committee hearing, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said, it is a “hardy perennial as long as I have been in the intelligence…
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We Are All Foreigners: NSA Spying and the Rights of Others

The New York Times reports today that President Obama is expected to ban eavesdropping on the phones of our allies’ presidents and prime ministers.  There is no indication,…
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“Ending the Forever War”: A Progress Report

This past May, President Obama gave an historic speech at the National Defense University framing his counterterrorism strategy.  In that speech, he committed himself to a concept…
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Kenya in a Global Non-International Armed Conflict Linked to September 11?

A brief recently filed by the President of Kenya before the International Criminal Court makes a provocative claim: Kenya is involved “in a war with radical Islamist groups”…
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Invented (and Real) Criticisms of the Human Rights Watch Report on Targeted Killings in Yemen

The major reports by Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International (AI) on targeted killings make valuable contributions to public debate (see Sarah Knuckey’s Guide to the…
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Live Feed — UN Panel on Drones and the Law [Update: now concluded]

Included on the UN Panel is Just Security’s Sarah Knuckey. [For background on the UN drone reports, see Sarah Knuckey‘s earlier post on the drone report by Christof…
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Live Feed of UN Debate on Drones [Update: Debate has now concluded]

[UPDATE:  The UN debate on the drones reports has now concluded.  A video of the debate is included below and begins at the 57:30 mark] [For background on the UN drone reports,…
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ICC Prosecutor Announces Important Changes in New Strategic Plan

The Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) has just released its new strategic plan for 2012-2015, signaling important changes in the direction of the Office that reflect the lessons learned…
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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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Targeted Killings — The US Power to Kill and the Yemeni Power to Capture

[For Just Security’s other coverage of yesterday’s Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch reports on targeted killings, see Sarah Knuckey’s guide 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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