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Statelessness update: the UK Government makes concession to citizenship-stripping proposals

Just Security has been covering citizenship-stripping proposals on both sides of the Atlantic. In an earlier post, I wrote about the UK Government’s citizen-stripping proposal…
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What’s Wrong with a Categorical Ban on Transfers from GITMO to Yemen

As Marty notes, the Senate Armed Services Committee recently approved its version of the National Defense Authorization Act for 2015.  (This will now go to the full Senate…
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Benghazi Oversight: The Composition of the Select Committee

This post provides an initial assessment of the composition of the newly formed House Select Committee on Events Surrounding the 2012 Terrorist Attack in Benghazi. Over several…
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The President’s Speech, Al Qaeda and the Legal Challenge of the Future

One of the most striking features of President Obama’s 28 May 2014 commencement address at West Point was its “turning the page” theme. The speech sought to look at the major…
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The Administration’s explanation for why it was lawful not to wait 30 days to complete the Bergdahl exchange

National Security Council Caitlin Hayden just issued this statement concerning “why it was lawful for the Administration to proceed with the [Bergdahl] transfer notwithstanding…
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The Bergdahl Exchange [Fifth UPDATE (with clarification)]

This is truly wonderful news. The five Taliban detainees transferred to Qatar apparently are: Abdul Haq Wasiq (ISN 004) Mullah Norullah Noori (ISN 006) Mullah Mohammad Fazl (ISN…
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Letter to the Editor Responding to Steve Vladeck on Gitmo Force Feeding

I enjoyed Steve’s post, although I think the “nobody cares anymore” premise is largely correct, if by “nobody,” we mean the public. Perversely, this is a function of…
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What You Should Know–and Why You Should Care–About the Latest Guantánamo Litigation

It’s been well over three years since Linda Greenhouse, writing for the New York Times, attributed the Supreme Court’s refusal to take any new cases from Guantánamo…
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Force Feeding at Guantanamo and Judge Gladys Kessler

In his commencement address at West Point on May 28, President Obama said, “What makes [America] exceptional is not our ability to flout international norms and the rule of law,…
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al Bihani is third successful GTMO detainee before PRB; SecDef considering transfer of six others to Uruguay

Two weeks ago, the GTMO Periodic Review Board determined that continued law-of-war detention of Ghaleb Nassar al Bihani “is no longer necessary to protect against a continuing…
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UN Torture Committee seeks further answers from Lithuania on involvement in CIA detention and rendition

Last week, the UN Committee against Torture adopted its Concluding Observations [full text] on Lithuania’s third periodic report on its compliance with the Convention against…
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Ending the Forever War: One Year After President Obama’s NDU Speech

Today, May 23, 2014, marks the one-year anniversary of President’s important speech at the National Defense University (NDU) setting forth his proposed framework for post-9/11…
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