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In case you missed this, the BBC reports:
President Obama has rejected a request by seven former heads of the CIA to end the inquiry into allegations of abuse of suspects held by the agency.
“Nobody’s above the law,” Mr Obama said in an interview with the American CBS television programme Face The Nation.
The US Attorney General Eric Holder last month named …

Laura Rozen reports:
Arms control takes center stage when President Barack Obama heads to New York this week, becoming the first American president to lead a United Nations Security Council summit on nonproliferation Thursday.
The U.S. plans to introduce this nonproliferation and disarmament resolution at the meeting. I’ve posted two earlier working drafts that the U.S. distributed to Security Council members earlier in the …

The Daily Telegraph reports:

India’s Gurkhas are preparing to unilaterally declare independence in a separate “Gorkhaland” state in the area around Darjeeling.
They claim they have been forced to take the step by decades of misrule which has siphoned away millions of pounds of government funds earmarked for them.
Despite the lucrative tea and tourism industries in the area, unemployment is high, electricity …

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The AP is reporting:
Seven former CIA directors asked President Barack Obama on Friday to quash a criminal probe of harsh interrogations of terror suspects during the Bush administration.The CIA directors, who served both Democratic and Republican presidents and include three who worked under President George W. Bush, made their request in a letter sent Friday to the White House.
Attorney General …

Integrating Disciplines: Cyber Security, Law, and Policy
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Gen. (Ret.) Michael Hayden
Former Director, National Security Agency and Central Intelligence Agency
Dr. James …

The previous post noted the brief filed by the Obama Administration appealing the ruling of Judge John D. Bates in the Bagram detainee cases. With many thanks to SCOTUSblog, the brief can be found here. As Lyle Denniston of SCOTUSblog explains:
The Obama Administration argued strenuously on Monday that the Supreme Court’s 2008 decision providing a right for imprisoned terrorism suspects …

The AP is reporting this evening:
The Obama administration argued late Monday that allowing terrorism detainees in Afghanistan to file lawsuits in U.S. courts challenging their detention would endanger the military mission in that country.Although the Pentagon is giving the roughly 600 detainees at Bagram Airfield a new chance to challenge their detentions, the Obama administration stuck with Bush administration policy …