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Report and Recommendations from the Stimson Task Force on U.S. Drone Policy
Later this morning, the Stimson Center’s Task Force on U.S. Drone Policy is scheduled to formally release a report and series of recommendations to the Obama Administration…
News Roundup and Notes: June 26, 2014
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The Bigger No Fly List Problem
Yesterday, Judge Anna Brown issued her much-anticipated opinion in Latif v. Holder, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. As Jennifer Daskal explained in her excellent…
SCOTUS & Cell Phone Searches: Digital is Different
Today, the Supreme Court unanimously invalidated warrantless searches of cell phones incident to arrest in Riley v. California and United States v. Wurie. Full disclosure: my colleagues…
The Latest No Fly List Ruling: A Very Big Deal!
As Steve has already noted, the District Court of Oregon yesterday, in Latif v. Holder, issued a “Very Big Deal” opinion ruling that the No Fly List redress procedures violated…
Is al-Qaeda in Iraq?
As an analyst in the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center, I spent four years as one of the agency’s leading experts on al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Iraq. Thus, the debate on Just Security…
Launch of a New Feature: “Today on Just Security”
Over recent weeks and months, many readers have asked for the ability to receive a summary of Just Security‘s daily content by email. We have listened to these requests…
News Roundup and Notes: June 25, 2014
We have launched a new email subscription based feature called: Today on Just Security. The email will provide you with all of our posts from the past 24 hours delivered straight…
You Can’t Have an “Associated Force” with No Core
There has been lots of commentary already on the newly-released (but heavily-redacted) OLC opinion, so I’ll focus mine on a key point I haven’t yet seen made. The OLC memo…
Oregon District Court Holds No-Fly List Procedures Violate Due Process
Speaking of due process, here’s a very significant decision by Judge Brown in the Latif case in the District of Oregon, about which Shirin Sinnar (in a guest post) and…
The OLC’s Drone Memo and International Law’s Ascendance
The long-awaited release of the redacted July 16, 2010 OLC memo is anticlimactic in important respects. Much is still unknown to the point that it is difficult, if not impossible,…
On the Benefits of Transparency: Why So Long to Disclose Drone Memo?
Monday’s release of the previously secret July 2010 Justice Department memo laying out the legal case for killing US citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki, has sparked a wide range of reactions,…