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Denial of Motion to Suppress FISA-Derived Evidence in Al-Shabaab Prosecution
United States v. Mahamud (D. Minn.) is a case involving the prosecution of a man linked to al Shabaab (on charges go conspiring to provide and actually providing material support to that group). On...
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Thoughts on the Brennan Speech : Scope of the AUMF, CCF, JSOC, and Other Issues
Over at Opinio Juris, Gabor Rona of Human Rights First offers an extended critique of John Brennan’s speech on the use of lethal force. It is an interesting and provocative post, leading me to share a...
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Klaidman Post #3: An Irony
A correspondent who prefers to remain anonymous point out the following irony. In my recent post on Dan Klaidman’s book, I quoted the following passage: The discussion continued for close to two hours,...
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Guilty Plea in al Shabaab Case in New York
[Update: Ben Weiser's coverage in the Times points out that real benefit of the plea for Ahmed of course was to avoid the firearms charge, which entailed a thirty year minimum. Ben also confirms that...
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White House Releases 2012 6-Month War Powers Resolution Supplemental Report
Today’s report includes the boilerplate-for-such-documents “consistent with the War Powers Resolution” phrase. It also includes the excerpt below regarding counterterrorism efforts in Yemen and...
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Proxy Detention in Somalia, and the Detention-Drone Tradeoff
There has been speculation about the effect of the Obama administration’s pinched detention policy – i.e. no new detainees brought to GTMO, and no new detainees to Parwan (Afghanistan) from outside...
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Administration Issues WPR Report
Here is the White House’s supplemental consolidated report regarding the deployment of U.S. armed forces. The report is addressed to the Speaker of the House, and was—in the President’s...
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Additional Thoughts on Washington Post “Renditions” Story
Steve has already noted (and critiqued) this Washington Post story about continued “renditions” by the United States government. The term “renditions” is used in so many ways (often, as Steve...
View ArticleDOD’s Weak Rationale for Keeping Enemy Identities Secret
Cora Currier at Pro Publica has an important story on why DOD won’t publish the list of AUMF “associated forces” against whom we are at war. DOD’s rationale: A Pentagon spokesman told ProPublica that...
View ArticleA New Drone Strike in Somalia: Is the 2001 AUMF Needed?
To the best of my knowledge, the U.S. government has not asserted that al Shabaab as a whole is an associated force of al Qaeda engaged in hostilities against the United States subject to the 2001...
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