With a Hat Tip to Neal Sonnett– Lyle Denniston over at SCOTUSblog brings to our attention a recently-declassified opinion by Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in a detainee habeas case, Al Rabiah v. U.S. During the course of the opinion Judge Kollar-Kotelly makes it clear that the evidence supporting that the argument that Al Rabiah should be detained indefinitely was simply insufficient. …
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September 26, 2009 # 1:34 pm # Armed Conflict, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Intelligence, International Law # No CommentInvestigating the intelligence community: What does history teach us?
August 30, 2009 # 7:27 pm # Armed Conflict, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Intelligence, International Law # One CommentIn today’s Washington Post, Professor Loch Johnson, former special assistant to the late Senator Frank Church, reminds us previous efforts to investigate allegations of wrong-doing in the intelligence community. Dr. Johnson writes:
During the first half of the Cold War, the CIA was largely free of serious congressional supervision. And despite controversies such as the U2 shoot-down over the Soviet Union, …
Amit Yoran on Cyber Security and Sun Tzu’s The Art of War
July 11, 2009 # 10:59 am # Armed Conflict, Foreign Policy, Intelligence # No CommentMy friend Amit Yoran recently gave an interview to Steven Fox of CSO-online in which he explored the relevance of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War to cyber security. Amit is one of the world’s leading experts on cyber security. The is currently the Chairman and CEO of NetWitness and former Cyber Security Czar for the United States. The podcast …
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