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2 Years and 55 Prisoners To Go: It’s Time for a Lot More Guantanamo Review Boards
In 2001, Tariq Mahmoud Ahmed al Sawah, a veteran of the war in Bosnia who’d joined up with al Qaeda in Afghanistan, landed in U.S. custody. Injured by a cluster bomb in the Afghan…
How to Interpret the UN Human Rights Committee’s Comment on National Security Detentions: State Party Submissions
Last October, the United Nations Human Rights Committee adopted General Comment No. 35 (GC) which has important implications for international law regulating detentions, including…
The Establishment of the International Criminal Tribunal for Palestine (Part I)
The new “Palestinian ICC bid” is barely two weeks old and already in full throttle, with the international legal and political commentators split between the traditional camps…
State of the Union Address: National Security Highlights
If you are interested in national security issues in last night’s State of the Union Address, be sure to check out this morning’s News Roundup from Ruchi Parekh and…
News Roundup and Notes: January 21, 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. STATE of the UNION ADDRESS…
Response to My Friend Luis Moreno Ocampo on the International Criminal Court and the Palestinian Situation
[Editor’s Note from Ryan Goodman: Starting with an excellent post by Professor David Luban on Palestine’s bid to join the International Criminal Court, Just Security published…
Charlie Hebdo, The Interview, and Censoring Torture Photos
In France and the United States, there seems to be near-universal agreement that to self-censor because of threats of violence is unwise and cowardly. The slogan “Je Suis Charlie,”…
How the U.S. Can Help Sri Lanka Turn the Corner—with a targeted war crimes prosecution
The Obama administration helped catalyze the United Nations’ ongoing efforts to bring accountability in Sri Lanka for mass war crimes committed in that country’s civil…
National Security Related Congressional Hearings, January 20-23
Below is a calendar of Congressional hearings on national security matters for this week. Tuesday, January 20, 2015 2:30pm – Senate Intelligence – Briefing: Intelligence Matters…
News Roundup and Notes: January 20, 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. SURVEILLANCE, PRIVACY, and…
MLK Day Schedule at Just Security (and recommended photo galleries)
In honor of Martin Luther King Day, Just Security will be on an abbreviated schedule with a lower volume of posts than normal. If any major, time-sensitive developments occur,…
The Torture Report, the CIA’s “Work of Fiction,” and a Friday-afternoon Letter From DOJ
In an earlier post, I called attention to the revelation in the Senate torture report that the CIA contemplated disclosing information about the torture program under cover of…