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The NDAA: Congress’ Opportunity to Take First Steps Towards Closing Gitmo

The withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan next year will mark a milestone on the path to ending the so-called “war on terror.”  But as a practical matter, what will…
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Pakistan Test Fires Missile to Take Down Drones

It might have been easy to doubt the veracity of the Pakistan government’s public protestations against US drone strikes in light of secret agreements between the two governments…
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African Commission Emerges as New Forum in Quest for Justice for Rendition Victims

[This post is authored by Roxanne Moore (NYU LLM ’14), Daniella Raveh (NYU JD ’15), Meg Satterthwaite, Amanda Bass (NYU JD ’15), in Banjul, Gambia] Today, we appeared alongside…
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Future of Gitmo to Take Center Stage Later This Month

With much attention in recent weeks focused on the NSA collection activities or the U.S. drone program, it can be easy to allow other important national security issues to become…
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La Plus Ça Change: A Look Back at Intelligence Gathering Reform

“To understand the past in order to better propose guidance for the future” -Church Commission (1976) Today’s report that the NSA has been tapping into Google and Yahoo data…
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Report to the General Assembly on Armed Drones and the Right to Life (or drones should follow the law, not the other way around)

[Editorial note: Last week, the United Nations discussed two major reports on drones. Just Security’s coverage included posts by Philip Alston, Ryan Goodman (here, here), Kevin…
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Belonging to a Party to a Non-International Armed Conflict: A Reply to Kevin Jon Heller [Updated]

In a recent post, I argued that an unexplored and independent legal basis exists for the US practice of targeting “associated forces” of al-Qaeda: the rules governing armed…
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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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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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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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