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A Terrorist Watchlist Error Revealed

Last month, a federal district court for the very first time ordered the government to disclose an individual’s status on the terrorist watchlist.  Jennifer Daskal described…
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An al Qaeda Armed Conflict with France or Malaysia?: The Legal Question at the Heart of the al Darbi Case

Yesterday the Acting Convening Authority of the GTMO Military Commissions, Navy General Counsel Paul Oostburg Sanz, referred charges against Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Haza al Darbi,…
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House Committee on Foreign Affairs Hearing on “Al-Qaeda’s Resurgence in Iraq”

Yesterday was a busy day on Capitol Hill for those interested in various facets of U.S. national security policy with several hearings relevant to Just Security readers.  Today…
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A Reply to Gabor Rona on “Extrajudicial Release” in Afghanistan

In his post “Extrajudicial Release: A New Rule-of-Law Problem?” Gabor Rona rightly criticizes U.S. officials’ use of the term “extrajudicial release.” It is a troubling…
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“Associated Forces” has a legal meaning . . . but it’s not “every group that calls itself al Qaeda”

Daphne reports that at a House Armed Services hearing today, Christopher Swift of the UVa Center for National Security Law emphasized that “the United States has to stop…
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“Associated Forces” Has No Legal or Strategic Meaning

Today was national security day in Congress, with three simultaneous hearings on the terrorist threat and how best to fight it.  I watched the House Armed Services Committee hearing…
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10 Things We Need to Know Now About the US Drone War

A year ago today, NBC News published a leaked copy of a Justice Department memo that justified the killing of a U.S. citizen without a trial in a foreign country outside a war…
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Another (Dubious) Guantánamo Precedent

As Wells Bennett flagged over at Lawfare, the D.C. Circuit’s latest foray into the Guantánamo detainee litigation came two weeks ago in Al-Janko v. Gates, in which a…
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Reforming The Section 702 Dragnet (Part 1)

The consensus is clear that spying on innocent Americans section 215 of the Patriot Act is flatly illegal.  The Center for Democracy and Technology said it, Christopher Sprigman…
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Extrajudicial Release: A New Rule-of-Law Problem?

Monday’s Wall Street Journal reported on the release, this past Sunday night, of a statement by U.S. Forces-Afghanistan, lamenting the decision of an Afghan-led review board…
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U.S. Operations Against al-Shabaab/al-Qaeda: The Targeting of Godane

As Sarah Knuckey’s post explains, CNN is reporting that the latest US drone strike in Somalia targeted Ahmed Abdi Godane, the leader of Al-Shabaab. Sarah asks whether the strike…
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What rules is the US applying to its Somalia drone strikes?

CNN today provided the most detailed account yet of the latest U.S. drone strike, carried out this past weekend in Somalia. US officials (quoted  anonymously by CNN) said the…
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