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5 Apr 2011, 6:53 am by Charon QC
The Jackson Reforms are coming’ By Stephen Higham, solicitor September 11 2001 is a date Jo Moore will never forget. [read post]
19 Feb 2011, 1:03 pm by Steve Vladeck
Al-Bihani and the Dangerous Conflation of the AUMF and the MCA The heart of the Hatim panel's "purposeful and material support" holding is borrowed from this discussion by Judge Brown for herself and Judge Kavanaugh in Al-Bihani (my emphasis added): The AUMF authorizes the President to “use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that… [read post]
16 Feb 2011, 5:00 am by Jon L. Gelman
Title II - The Re-Opened Victim Compensation Fund of 2001 The Zadroga Act also reopens and significantly expands a number of aspects of the September 11th Victims Compensation Fund of 2001. [read post]
3 Feb 2011, 8:55 pm by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
Following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the government created the national color-coded terror alert system, but a majority of voters agree with the Department of Homeland Security's decision last week to abandon that system in favor of more specific warnings. [read post]
21 Dec 2010, 11:12 am by Ateqah Khaki, ACLU
Yesterday, the Washington Post published the latest installment in its “Top Secret America” series, an ongoing investigation into the costly and expansive security buildup in the United States following the September 11, 2001 attacks. [read post]
14 Dec 2010, 12:23 pm by Larry Siems, The Torture Report
SH: Before September 11, 2001, the CIA carried out at least seventy extraordinary renditions—the vast majority, it seems, under Clinton. [read post]
3 Nov 2010, 8:02 am by arester
He was instrumental in the writing and implementation of the Administration's report on the health impacts of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and led negotiations on legislation that has since been introduced in both houses of the United States Congress. [read post]
30 Sep 2010, 8:23 am by Carter Wood
The emotional/political force achieved by invoking the victims of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, overwhelmed any substantive critique of the legislation. [read post]
19 Sep 2010, 8:04 pm by Celeste Blackburn
For a week, the nation’s news reporters were captivated by a Florida preacher’s plans to burn the Quran on the anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks. [read post]
11 Sep 2010, 11:37 pm by Steve Vladeck
Whatever else might be said about the AUMF, the requirement that the organizations have a direct link to the September 11 attacks is manifest, and has routinely been enforced by the D.C. courts in detention cases (as manifested perhaps most [read post]
10 Aug 2010, 11:42 am by Kim Zetter
NSLs have been used since the 1980s, but the Patriot Act, passed after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and a subsequent revision in 2003 expanded the kinds of records that could be obtained with an NSL. [read post]
7 Aug 2010, 1:29 pm
Department of Justice adopted it shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. [read post]
2 Aug 2010, 12:50 pm by PJ Blount
RES. 1585 Honoring and recognizing the exemplary service and sacrifice of the 60th Air Mobility Wing, the 349th Air Mobility Wing, the 15th Expeditionary Mobility Task Force, and the 615th Contingency Response Wing civilians and families serving at Travis Air Force Base, California. [read post]
22 Jul 2010, 10:43 am by Simon Fodden
The result of two years of research, they deal extensively with the ultra-secret world constructed by the U.S. government in response to the attack on September 11. [read post]
13 Jul 2010, 8:37 am by Cian Murphy
Some individuals on the UN list have had their assets frozen since soon after September 11 2001 with little prospect of being delisted and no intention on the part of state authorities to bring formal criminal proceedings. [read post]
14 Jun 2010, 1:47 pm by Stewart Baker
 In fact, we’ve never counted how much harm it caused the US in August 2001, as we stumbled in the dark, trying to piece together the September 11 plot before disaster struck. [read post]
18 May 2010, 6:00 pm by Rosalind English
Since the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 the government and courts have conducting the most elaborate of contortionist exercises to balance the prevention of acts of terrorism with the obligation under Article 3 of the Convention not to remove or deport any person to a country where he could face a real risk of ill-treatment. [read post]
11 May 2010, 11:01 am by Big Tent Democrat
In Hamdan, Justice Stevens wrote for the Court: On September 11, 2001, agents of the al Qaeda terrorist organization hijacked commercial airplanes and attacked the World Trade Center in New York City and the national headquarters of the Department of Defense in Arlington, Virginia. [. . .] [read post]
22 Apr 2010, 9:34 am by PJ Blount
RES. 266 Expressing the sense of Congress that Taiwan should be accorded observer status in the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). [read post]