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Happy Presidents’ Day, Just Security Readers
Happy Presidents’ Day! We will likely have reduced coverage today. In addition to our usual coverage in the coming week, stay tuned on Tuesday for a debate on the use of signals…
The al Iraqi Case and the Future of Military Commissions
This morning’s New York Times features a story by Charlie Savage about yesterday’s addition of a conspiracy charge to the pending military commission proceeding at…
Recap: A Guide to the Past Week’s Posts on Just Security (Feb. 8-14)
I. Surveillance and Data Collection Just Security, Members of the PCLOB Testifying Before the Senate Judiciary Committee (Wednesday, Feb. 12) Jennifer Granick, Eight Questions…
Benghazi Oversight: What New Congressional Reports Tell Us about Committee Clients
This week, the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) issued a 31-page majority interim report on the September 11-12, 2012 attack on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya. The HASC…
10 Things the United States has done right in Supporting a Peace Process: Lesson for the Middle East
In the recent flurry of attention to U.S. sponsored peace talks in the Middle East and Syria the critics have been plentiful. Much ink has been split on the preponderance of lost…
Congratulations to Sarah Knuckey—Professorship and Co-Director of Human Rights Institute at Columbia Law
Congratulations to Just Security’s Sarah Knuckey, who has accepted an offer to become the Lieff Cabraser Associate Clinical Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Human Rights…
News Roundup and Notes: February 14, 2014
Before the start of business, Just Security provides a curated summary of up-to-the-minute developments at home and abroad. Here’s today’s news. Surveillance In a statement…
Do “Extrajudicial Releases” of Afghan Detainees Violate International Law?: The Missing Legal Arguments
Today’s release of detainees by Afghan authorities, from the Parwan detention facility near Bagram airfield, has met with strong responses by the US embassy in Kabul (here) and…
Can the ICC Compel Witnesses to Testify?
On Friday (February 14), the Trial Chamber in the Ruto and Sang case at the International Criminal Court (ICC) will hear oral argument on a prosecution motion that could have significant…
News Roundup and Notes: February 13, 2014
Before the start of business, Just Security provides a curated summary of up-to-the-minute developments at home and abroad. Here’s today’s news. Surveillance According to…
Members of the PCLOB Testifying Before the Senate Judiciary Committee
This morning at 10:00am, the Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing on “The Report of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board on Reforms to the Section…
In the Trenches: The Other Civilian/Military Conflict
Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates new book, Duty, Memoirs of a Secretary at War, which describes the tensions and lack of trust between the White House and senior military…