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Preview — Al Bahlul in the D.C. Circuit: The Fate of Military Commissions at Guantánamo

On Monday, September 30, the D.C. Circuit, sitting en banc, will hear argument in al Bahlul v. United States – a case definitely worth watching.  The immediate question is whether…
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Good Reasons May Exist to Close CIA Drone Program—But Claim that CIA Agents are “Unprivileged Belligerents” is Not One of Them

Senator John McCain has vowed to accelerate the effort to transition control of drone operations from the CIA to the Pentagon, and he will likely have support from top Senate Democrats.…
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Human Rights and the Pitfalls of FBI Assistance at Westgate

In yesterday’s post on Just Security, Steve and Jennifer raise important issues as to what authority the AUMF may or may not grant the United States to respond to al-Shabaab…
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The Deeper Lesson from Terrorist Expatriation Proposals

[Note: The following post is derived from remarks prepared for last Friday’s symposium on “Citizenship, Immigration and National Security After 9/11,” sponsored by the Fordham…
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Flip Flops?: The Conflict with Al Qaeda Is (Not) a War

Following the September 11 attacks in 2001, President George W. Bush justified several military actions on the ground that the United States was now in an armed conflict with Al…
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Time to Retire the Military Commissions

Last Monday morning, as a military judge read each of the men accused of plotting the 9/11 terrorist attacks their rights to attend the hearings in their case, two of them objected.…
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Westgate, al Shabaab, and the AUMF

As we continue to learn more details about the horrendous attack on the Westgate Mall in Kenya—with dozens dead and hundreds wounded—Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has pleaded…
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