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The Process of Transferring Drone Operations from the CIA to the Pentagon: Slow Track, Just Stalled, or Terminal?
On Tuesday evening, Foreign Policy published an exclusive report, with a headline suggesting that the administration has terminated the idea of transferring drone operations from…
Observations on the Oral Argument in Bond
In light of the current efforts of the United States to ensure that even Syria, a nonparty to the treaty, strictly complies with the prohibitions of the Chemical Weapons Convention–and…
News Roundup and Notes: November 6, 2013
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 joint…
Spy v. Spy?: The coming push to create an EU spy agency to counteract the NSA
In an interview on Monday, a senior EU official, Commissioner of Justice Viviane Reding unveiled, in broad brushstrokes, a proposal to create a spy agency to counteract the NSA.…
Newsweek’s Wayward Cover Story on Snowden and Chinese Cyber Hacking
Newsweek’s current cover story, “How Edward Snowden Escalated Cyber War with China” by Kurt Eichenwald, is an important read. Eichenwald makes two claims: Snowden’s impact:…
News Roundup and Notes: November 5, 2013
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 At the hearing…
The Constitutionality of a FISA “Special Advocate”
The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) is holding a day-long hearing today on possible reforms to the NSA’s surveillance activities—especially those conducted…
PCLOB Hearing on NSA Review
Today the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) is holding a public hearing on recommended changes to surveillance programs authorized under the USA PATRIOT Act and…
News Roundup and Notes: November 4, 2013
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 ICYMI, on Friday,…
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…
Recap of the Week’s Posts on Just Security (Oct 26-Nov 1)
I. Surveillance and Data Collection Jennifer Granick, Hands Off Encryption! Say New Amici Briefs in Lavabit Case (Wednesday, Oct. 23) Steve Vladeck, My Written Statement for…
A Deus Ex Machina Postpones the Kenya Cases
Just a quick update to close the loop on a prior post. There, we noted speculative press reporting that Western diplomats were considering options for delaying the Kenyatta and…