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Progress on the 2014 NDAA — A Guantanamo Victory

Congress has now released its compromise version of the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act reconciling the House and Senate bills into a revised version that is slated to…
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Preview — Hassan v. UK

Tomorrow (December 11, 2013) the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (the ECtHR) will hear the case of Hassan v. United Kingdom (Application No. 29750/09). The…
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Associated Forces, Material Support, and the Hidden Flaws in Ali v. Obama

As Steve previously noted over at Lawfare, on Tuesday, the D.C. Circuit affirmed the denial of yet another Guantánamo habeas petition in Ali v. Obama.  Specifically, the court…
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A Review of the Special Rapporteur Reports Regarding “Drones” and the Use of Lethal Force

Background The UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Mr Christof Heyns, recently reported on the topic of the use of lethal force through armed…
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Pentagon Ends Daily Hunger Strike Reports: Whither Transparency?

In warfare, many military actions must remain secret. Calls for “greater transparency” are often too simplistic and fail to properly accommodate pressing national security…
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Sixth-Month Anniversary of the President’s NDU Speech

Today marks the six-month anniversary of President Obama’s now-famous speech at the National Defense University on May 23, 2013.  In his speech, the President described…
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Decision Time: Key Issues in the U.S.-Afghan Bilateral Security Agreement

The U.S. and Afghanistan agreed this week on the terms for an extended U.S. military presence in Afghanistan after 2014.The Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA), which the Loya Jirga…
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The D.C. Circuit and Guantánamo, Post-Filibuster Edition

I’ve written a lot (too much!) before about both the D.C. Circuit’s jurisprudence in post-Boumediene Guantánamo cases and the Supreme Court’s passivity in…
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Equating Terrorism and Bubonic Plague: Bad for Counterterrorism, Bad for the Constitution

If I were Al Qaeda’s director of propaganda and managed to infiltrate an agent into the American judiciary, I’d want him to exaggerate the terrorist threat and then leverage…
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Heartening News from the Senate — Sections 1031-1033 of the SASC NDAA Survive

The Senate has rejected the Ayotte Amendment by a 55-43 vote.  Senators Donnelly, Hagan and Pryor were the only Democrats in favor; Senators Flake, McCain and Paul were the Republicans…
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Senate to Take Critical Vote on Guantanamo’s Fate

The Senate is poised – possibly as early as this afternoon – to take one of the most important national security votes in years.  As Daphne and Thomas have noted, at issue…
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ICRC’s Public Reply Regarding Order to Turn Over Confidential Reports to Military Commission

As readers may recall, on November 6, Military Commission Judge James Pohl ordered the prosecution to hand over to him all ICRC confidential reports on its visits to Guantanamo…
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