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News Roundup and Notes: January 5, 2016
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. IRAN-SAUDI ARABIA DISPUTE…
National Security-Related Congressional Hearings, January 4–8
Below is a calendar of congressional hearings on national security matters for this week. It’s a bit of a slow week. Only the House is back in session; the Senate returns…
The Irresponsible Institutional Politics of an “Election Year”
This post is the latest installment of our “Monday Reflections” feature, in which a different Just Security editor examines the big stories from the previous week or looks…
News Roundup and Notes: January 4, 2016
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. IRAQ and SYRIA The US-led…
Closing GTMO: “Why wasn’t there a clearly delineated strategy?”
It’s not even the most glaring error in Dina Temple-Raston’s review of Charlie Savage’s Power Wars, but this passage sure does stand out: While the issue of closing…
Recap of Recent Posts at Just Security (December 19–January 1)
I. Prepublication Review Process Steve Vladeck, The Over-Complicated Prepublication Review Process (Saturday, December 26) Oona Hathaway & Jack Goldsmith, More Problems With…
Congress Squawks as Surveillance Chickens Come Home to Roost
A year that has alternated between major surveillance reforms and calls for new spying laws in the wake of ISIS attacks is set to close with a pendulum swing back against NSA surveillance…
Some of Our Most-Read Posts From 2015 — And Others Worth Revisiting
As the year winds down, we’ve been taking a look at some of our successes during 2015 and we thought our readers might enjoy a roundup of some of our most-read posts, as…
The Scope of the Prepublication Review Problem, and What to Do About It
Editor’s note: This post also appears on Lawfare. The problems in the prepublication review process that we identified in our Washington Post op-ed and in a subsequent post…
News Roundup and Notes: December 30, 2015
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. IRAQ and SYRIA Targeted…
News Roundup and Notes: December 29, 2015
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. IRAQ and SYRIA Iraqi Prime…
Path Dependence and the Prepublication Review Process
Editor’s note: This post also appears on Lawfare. Over the weekend, we wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post about the lifetime prepublication review process required of nearly…