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John Yoo on Stripping Citizenship for Americans Who Work for U.S. Enemies

By | 02.16.10 | 2:19 pm

This is a bit flashbacky, but in June 2002, John Yoo, then the deputy chief of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, considered the question of what acts a U.S. citizen might commit that would indicate an implicit renunciation of his or her citizenship. Apropos of my More…

Congress Helped Prosecutors Avoid More of Those Embarassing Waiver Agreements

By | 03.31.09 | 5:56 pm

Since my earlier post on Yaser Hamdi’s express agreement not to sue the United States for his indefinite detention and mistreatment, Cornell Law Professor Michael Dorf, who analyzed the Hamdi agreement shortly after it was reached, has provided a helpful clue as to why we may not be More…

Former ‘Enemy Combatant’ Promised Not to Sue U.S. Government in Exchange for Release

By | 03.31.09 | 1:12 pm

When the news broke last week that the United States had tried to prevent Binyam Mohamed from suing the U.S. government — or even talking about his treatment at the hands of U.S. authorities before they would allow him to return to the United Kingdom — I wondered More…