01/31/12: The New York Times features an opinion piece by Andrew Stobo Sniderman and Mark Hanis, in which the authors contend drones are not just for firing missiles in Pakistan. In Iraq, the State Department is using them to watch for threats to Americans. Snider and Hanis believe it’s time we used the revolution in military affairs to serve human rights advocacy. With drones, they say, we could take clear pictures and videos of human rights abuses, and we could start with Syria.

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Commentary: Gitmo’s prying eyes
02/01/12: The American Conservative features an opinion piece by Kelley Beaucar Vlahos alleging that Department of Defense actions have deprived Guantanamo detainees of the attorney client privilege. Vlahos notes that the Office of Chief Defense Counsel for Military Commissions, whose clients are incarcerated at Guantanamo Bay, is engaged in a standoff. They’ve refused to sign the user agreement required by the Department of Defense that consents to “the routine monitoring, interception and search” of “all communications using or data stored on” the Pentagon’s global computer network, which all DoD personnel—including the attorneys—use every day. HT to Neal R. Sonnett.
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February 01, 2012 at 02:08 PM in Military, Constitutional Law, Detainees / Guantanamo, Commentary / Opinion | Permalink