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Jessica Stern consults with various government agencies on counter- terrorism policy. In 2009, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship RECENT COMMENTARY for her work on trauma and violence. She has authored Terror in the Name of God , selected by the New York Times as a notable book of May 2, 2011 | Daily Beast the year; The Ultimate Terrorists ; and numerous articles on terrorism Osama Death Will Reopen and weapons of mass destruction. She served on President Clinton’s America's 9/11 Wounds National Security Council Staff in 1994–95 and is a member of the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations. She was named a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow, a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Fellow of the World Economic April 20, 2011 | Boston Forum, and a Harvard MacArthur Fellow. She has a BS from Barnard College in chemistry, an MA Globe from MIT in chemical engineering/technology policy, and a PhD from Harvard University in public Arab Revolutions Don’t Mean policy. End for Al Qaeda

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The National Security and Law Task Force examines the rule of law, the laws of war, and American constitutional law with a view to making proposals that strike an optimal balance between individual Significant gifts for the freedom and the vigorous defense of the nation against terrorists both abroad and at home. The support of this task force are task force’s focus is the rule of law and its role in Western civilization, as well as the roles of acknowledged from international law and organizations, the laws of war, and U.S. criminal law. Those goals will be accomplished by systematically studying the constellation of issues—social, economic, and Koret Foundation political—on which striking a balance depends. Tad and Dianne Taube Taube Family Peter Berkowitz serves as chair of the National Security and Law Task Force. Foundation James J. Carroll III Featured Commentary and News Jean Perkins Foundation May 16, 2011 | American Enterprise Institute NEWS » HOOVER DAILY REPORT CIA Interrogations and the Bin Laden Operation

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May 2, 2011 | Daily Beast NEWS » HOOVER DAILY REPORT Osama Death Will Reopen America's 9/11 Wounds

by Jessica Stern (member of the Task Force on National Security and Law)

Bin Laden’s death will remind America of everything it has sacrificed in the decade since 9/11—making the moment not only an opportunity to rejoice, but a time to grieve what the nation has irretrievably lost...

April 20, 2011 | Boston Globe NEWS » HOOVER DAILY REPORT Arab Revolutions Don’t Mean End for Al Qaeda

by Jessica Stern (member of the Task Force on National Security and Law)

...[T]he Arab spring is unlikely to deal the death blow we might wish for. On the contrary, the terrorism threat to the Middle East as well as the West is likely to get worse before it gets better...

April 11, 2011 | Weekly Standard NEWS » HOOVER DAILY REPORT Upon Further Review...

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)

Judge Goldstone withdraws his charge of Israeli war crimes...

March 28, 2011 | Council on Foreign Relations NEWS » HOOVER DAILY REPORT The Debate Over U.S. Libya Intervention by Matthew Waxman (member of the Task Force on National Security and Law)

With the UN Security Council-authorized military strikes on Libya in full swing, legal debate in the United States is focused on whether, as a matter of U.S. constitutional law, the president may unilaterally order U.S. forces to participate in those operations without going to Congress for permission... March 25, 2011 | Lawfare NEWS » HOOVER DAILY REPORT Libya – Advice to Congress by Jack Goldsmith (member of the Task Force on National Security and Law)

In the last few days several smart people have disagreed with my argument in favor of the constitutionality of the Libya intervention...

March 24, 2011 | Lawfare NEWS » HOOVER DAILY REPORT The Legal Reason Why the Obama Administration Won’t Call the Libya Action “War”

by Jack Goldsmith (member of the Task Force on National Security and Law)

Critics are starting to swarm around the Obama administration’s increasingly unintuitive claim – in the sixth day of what the New York Times now describes as “ferocious” air strikes on ground forces, tanks, and artillery – that the intervention in Libya is not “war...

March 24, 2011 | Lawfare NEWS » HOOVER DAILY REPORT Wall Street Journal on New Miranda Rules

by Benjamin Wittes (member of the Task Force on National Security and Law)

Evan Perez of the Wall Street Journal has this very interesting piece reporting that “New rules allow investigators to hold domestic-terror suspects longer than others without giving them a Miranda warning, significantly expanding exceptions to the instructions that have governed the handling of criminal suspects for more than four decades...

March 24, 2011 | Lawfare NEWS » HOOVER DAILY REPORT Washington Post on Graham Habeas Bill

by Benjamin Wittes (member of the Task Force on National Security and Law)

The Washington Post has an interesting editorial today largely in support of Senator Lindsey Graham’s new habeas bill...

March 21, 2011 | Slate NEWS » HOOVER DAILY REPORT War Power by Jack Goldsmith (member of the Task Force on National Security and Law)

The president's campaign against Libya is constitutional...

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