Journal of National Security Law & Policy

* United States v. Boyd (E.D.N.C. Sep. 14, 2011) (yes, another guilty plea)   Well, I spoke to soon.  Another DOJ win in a terrorism case. You have to admire the concatenation of inchoateness in this particular charge: aiding-and-abetting a conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, where that underlying material support offense in turn [...]

* United States v. Harpham (E.D. Wash. Sep. 7, 2011) (guilty plea)   Ok, this should be it for today.  Last week was a busy one for DOJ in terrorism cases!   In this case, Kevin Harhpham has pled guilty to placing an IED along the planned route for the MLK Day parade in Spokane [...]

* United States v. Payen (S.D.N.Y. Sep. 7, 2011) (25 year sentence in NY terror plot)   From the press release:   NEW YORK – Laguerre Payen was sentenced today to 25 years in prison for plotting to bomb synagogues in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, N.Y., and to use Stinger surface-to-air guided missiles [...]

* United States v. Irfan Ul Haq, et al. (D.D.C. Sep. 12, 2011)   An interesting case.  The three defendants (all citizens of Pakistan) ran a human smuggling operation in Ecuador, and agreed to smuggle a man whom they believed was a member of the Pakistani Taliban from Pakistan into the United States.  They have [...]

Sigh….the listserv software did not like my use of HTML text in the first attempt to announce this event.  I hope this goes better:   * upcoming events: The HLS-Brookings Project on Law and Security, "Law, Security, & Liberty after 9/11" (Harvard, Friday and Saturday this week) (co-sponsored by the Harvard National Security Journal)   [...]

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"Differential News Framing of Unmanned Aerial Drones: Efficient and Effective or Illegal and Inhumane?"  APSA 2011 Annual Meeting Paper TIMOTHY JONES, Bellevue College, University of WashingtonEmail: tim.jones@bellevuecollege.eduPENELOPE SHEETS, affiliation not provided to SSRNCHARLES ROWLING, University of WashingtonEmail: rowlingc@u.washington.edu Over the past four years, the United States has significantly expanded its use of unmanned aerial vehicles, [...]

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–_008_51F6B3FDE3C5964BB99ECB81E17EB73904CDE2C819EXCHMAILausti_ Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary=”_007_51F6B3FDE3C5964BB99ECB81E17EB73904CDE2C819EXCHMAILausti_”; type=”multipart/alternative” –_007_51F6B3FDE3C5964BB99ECB81E17EB73904CDE2C819EXCHMAILausti_ Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=”_000_51F6B3FDE3C5964BB99ECB81E17EB73904CDE2C819EXCHMAILausti_” –_000_51F6B3FDE3C5964BB99ECB81E17EB73904CDE2C819EXCHMAILausti_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=”us-ascii” Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * United States v. Hasbrajami (E.D.N.Y. Sep. 9, 2011) (another material sup= port indictment) The indictment and detention memo in this case are attached. In this one, = the government alleges that an Albanian citizen/legal US resident living in= New [...]

* forthcoming scholarship   The Soldier, the State and the Separation of Powers  (email dpearlst@yu.edu for copy of the paper)   Deborah N. Pearlstein (Cardozo) (forthcoming Texas L. Rev. 2012)   As U.S. counterterrorism activities continue to engage the armed forces in profound legal and policy debates over detention, interrogation, targeting and the use of [...]

This evening at Harvard Law School, John Brennan (the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism) delivered an important speech concerning the legal and policy aspects of counterterrorism policy, including some remarkably detailed comments on targeting standards.  The full text is posted here.  The following passages struck me as particularly important: An area [...]

* United States v. Jayyousi, Hassoun, and Padilla (11th Cir. Sep. 19, 2011) (affirming convictions, granting government cross-appeal on Padilla’s sentence)   An across-the-board win for the government in the long-awaited appeal of the conviction and sentencing of Jose Padilla and his co-defendants.  Nothing too novel about it from the point of view of the [...]

2 items related to Mexico and transnational criminal organizations   * “Calderon’s Cauldron: Lessons from Mexico’s Battle Against Organized Crime and Drug Trafficking in Tijuana, Ciudad Juarez, and Michoacan” Vanda Felbab-Brown (Brookings) (September 2011)   This monograph explores the effectiveness of the security and law enforcement and socio-economic approaches adopted in Mexico over the past [...]

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–_004_51F6B3FDE3C5964BB99ECB81E17EB73904CDF17523EXCHMAILausti_ Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=”_000_51F6B3FDE3C5964BB99ECB81E17EB73904CDF17523EXCHMAILausti_” –_000_51F6B3FDE3C5964BB99ECB81E17EB73904CDF17523EXCHMAILausti_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=”us-ascii” Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I neglected to mention below that this event will be webcast live, for thos= e who will not be in Cleveland tomorrow. From: Robert Chesney Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 4:45 PM To: nationalsecuritylaw@utlists.utexas.edu Subject: event tomorrow at Case Western: “The University and National Secur= [...]