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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…
“Expansion” or contraction?: The case of Special Operations forces in the Middle East
In today’s New York Times, Mark Mazzetti and Eric Schmitt have a very interesting and informative story about President Obama’s use of Special Operations Forces in the U.S.…
More Problems With Prepublication Review
Editor’s note: This post also appears on Lawfare. Over the weekend, we published an op-ed in the Washington Post about the government’s broken prepublication review process.…
Ten National Security Oversight Issues to Watch in 2016
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: December 28, 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 forces…
The Over-Complicated Prepublication Review Process
I wanted to quickly flag for readers a great op-ed written by our own Oona Hathaway and Lawfare’s Jack Goldsmith in the Washington Post that dives into how out of control the…
What explains the three-year delay on the Slahi habeas petition?
As Ben Wittes notes over at Lawfare, last week Judge Royce Lamberth denied a motion by habeas petitioner Mohamedou Ould Slahi to require the Department of Defense to expedite…
A FOIA Circuit Split That the Supreme Court Needs To Resolve
On Friday, January 8, the Supreme Court will consider a petition for certiorari in EPIC v. DHS, a lawsuit by the Electronic Privacy and Information Center (EPIC) under the Freedom…