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Jean Perkins Task Force on National Security and Law: Op-eds and Articles

March 20, 2011 | Lawfare
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Thoughts on Thursday’s HASC Hearing

by Benjamin Wittes (member of the Task Force on National Security and Law)
I have now had the chance to go over a transcript of Thursday’s House Armed Services Committee hearing on detention policy, at which Pentagon General Counsel Jeh Johnson and Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III both testified...
February 23, 2011 | Pajamas Media
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Truman, Reagan, and Bush Were Right

by Peter Berkowitz (Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow; Chair, National Security and Law Task Force; and Cochair, Virtues of a Free Society Task Force)
In the face of Gaddafi’s war against the Libyan people, Obama should align himself with a proud American foreign policy tradition, with both progressive and conservative roots...
February 18, 2011 | Washington Post
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The military must take a harder line against sexual assault

by Jessica Stern (member of the Task Force on National Security and Law)
Tacit tolerance of sexual assault severely damages the morale and resilience of individual service members. It also threatens more than individuals: It undermines readiness and mobilization capacity and, ultimately, our national security...
February 16, 2011 | Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)
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Imperiled By Innovation

by Benjamin Wittes (member of the Task Force on National Security and Law)
Technology aids national security. It also makes us vulnerable...
February 11, 2011 | Pajamas Media
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Contemplating Egypt at the Herzliya Conference

by Peter Berkowitz (Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow; Chair, National Security and Law Task Force; and Cochair, Virtues of a Free Society Task Force)
Like the rest of the world, Israeli security experts did not foresee the tumult. They are mostly pessimistic about the outcome...
February 11, 2011 | Washington Post
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Why the U.S. shouldn't try Julian Assange

by Jack Goldsmith (member of the Task Force on National Security and Law)
The government's most prudent course is to ignore Assange and focus instead on tightening the lax security safeguards that allowed the leaks to happen...
February 1, 2011
policy review » no. 165 » books

Thinking About Torture

by Peter Berkowitz
Peter Berkowitz on Because it is Wrong: Torture, Privacy, and Presidential Power in the Age of Terror by Charles Fried and Gregory Fried.
February 1, 2011 | Jewish Review of Books
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One State?

by Peter Berkowitz (Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow; Chair, National Security and Law Task Force; and Cochair, Virtues of a Free Society Task Force)
Sari Nusseibeh's recent book is a new formulation of an old proposal...
January 28, 2011 | Volokh Conspiracy
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Ben Wittes’ “Detention and Denial”

by Kenneth Anderson

Ben Wittes (of Lawfare blog, the Brookings Institution, and member of the Hoover Task Force on National Security and Law) has a new book out of Brookings Institution Press, Detention and Denial: The Case for Candor after Guantanamo. It has been out since late December, but I just got a chance to finish reading it. I’m a huge fan, which will surprise no one familiar with my thinking about Ben’s work as well as about Guantanamo policy.

January 21, 2011 | Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)
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What Motivates Terrorists?

by Jessica Stern (member of the Task Force on National Security and Law)
Ideology is not the only or even the principal reason why individuals join terrorist groups...