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Over at Lawfare I’ve posted a short summary of my collateral damage piece.  You can access the summary here.

To give you a feel for the flavor of the blog post, here is my concluding paragraph:

“Taken together, the CDM process provides predictions about likely effects, and the ROE specifies the decision authority [...]

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In November 2009, I announced that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other individuals would stand trial in federal court for their roles in the terrorist attacks on our country on September 11, 2001.

As I said then, the decision between federal courts and military commissions was not an easy one to make.  I [...]

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I’ve posted the abstract to a recent symposium article “A Cup of Coffee After the Waterboard: Seemingly Voluntary Post-Abuse Statements” to SSRN, but unfortunately I don’t have a .PDF of the final page proofs to post yet.  Here is the abstract of the article which appears in Volume 59 of the [...]

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In a prior post I discussed a change to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court’s Rules of Procedure.  Marc Ambinder, writing at The Atlantic and Steven Aftergood at Secrecy News both posted responses (thanks to both for the comments and traffic).  Ambinder tied my post to recent developments in the [...]

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On Monday March 29th at noon I will be appearing at Texas Tech University School of Law to debate Professor Arnold Loewy, the topic of our debate is “Miranda on the Battlefield: How Boumediene v. Bush Impacts Combat Operations.”

The formal announcement is here.

The event will [...]

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Today the U.S. Department of Justice unsealed an indictment in the “Jihad Jane” a.k.a. “Fatima La Rose” a.k.a. Colleen R. LaRose case.  Jihad Jane is alleged to have participated in a conspiracy to use the internet to recruit terrorists to engage in acts of violent jihad, to include murders overseas.

The Press Release [...]

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On March 9th I will be at The University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law debating my friend and former colleague Amos Guiora.

Our topic is the Christmas day bombing plot and the related issues of how to detain, interrogate and try suspected terrorists.

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On February 22, at Noon I will be giving a speech at Temple University.  The topic of the speech is “What to do about Guantanamo?”  My remarks will focus on the challenges associated with closing the detention facility, and the broader challenges of detaining and trying suspected terrorists.

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On February 10, 2010 I will be participating in a panel discussion focused on “How to Try Suspected Terrorists” sponsored by the Loyola Law School-Los Angeles International Law Society and Federalist Society chapters.

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Tomorrow there will be a fantastic event sponsored by three of my favorite organizations on a topic of great interest to me: 

The Federalist Society’s International Law and National Security Law Practice Group, The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, and The National Review Institute are sponsoring an event entitled: [...]

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