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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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Today at Chapman University School of Law I will be presenting at an event entitled “9/11 Ten Year Anniversary: Terrorism & Counter-Terrorism Since the Attack.”  The event will begin at 11:45am in Room 142 and is sponsored by the Federalist Society.

From the promotional materials:

Gregory S. McNeal, legal scholar and specialist in terrorism [...]

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From the IPT: Pending revisions to an FBI operations guide could help agents more quickly and aptly perform investigations, including counterterrorism-related inquires, according to former FBI officials familiar with older and current guidelines. ... The changes could help speed up the vetting process for valuable human intelligence, said Bob Blitzer, former Chief of the FBI's Domestic Counterterrorism Section, in an interview with the Investigative Project on Terrorism.

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The Bipartisan Policy Center has released their new report Preventing Violent Radicalization in America. Last September’sreport by the Bipartisan Policy Center’s (BPC) National Security Preparedness Group, Assessing the Terrorist Threat, concluded that the lack of a coherent approach towards domestic counter-radicalization left America “vulnerable to a threat that is not only [...]

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The International & National Security Law Practice Group of the Federalist Society has published "An Analysis of the National Defense Authorization Bill" authored by Ben Wittes of The Brookings Institution.    The article describes the detention and Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) provisions in the National Defense Authorization bill, which was passed by the House of Representatives by a 322-96 vote on May 26, how these provisions are different from the provisions in earlier versions of the bill, and where they are likely to generate opposition. House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon introduced the bill in early March and provided updated language for the detention and AUMF sections on May 9.

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My essay The Federal Protective Power and Targeted Killing of U.S. Citizens is now available at CATO-Unbound.org. The essay is a response to Ryan Alford’s interesting historical piece entitled Sentence First, Verdict Afterwards a shorter version of his lengthier law review article The Rule of Law at the Crossroads: Consequences of Targeted [...]

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In light of the news (embedded above) that KSM and other 9/11 plotters will be tried in a military commission in Guantanamo, I thought it was appropriate to post to SSRN a symposium article entitled A Cup of Coffee After the Waterboard: Seemingly Voluntary Post-Abuse Statements.  The article focuses on the impact that abusive [...]

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I’m very excited about my upcoming participation in a conference at The University of Pennsylvania Law School.  The conference is entitled “Using Targeted Killing to Fight the War on Terror: Philosophical, Moral and Legal Challenges.”  Here is the intro from the conference web page:

The Obama administration has authorized the CIA to target [...]

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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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Elite U.S. counterterror forces facing cuts: “Resources are heavily taxed by the operational tempo in Afghanistan and Pakistan, officials said.”

(Via GovExec.com: Defense + Homeland Security News.)

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