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Detention: In Ali v. Obama the D.C. Circuit denied Abdul Razak Ali's habeas appeal.
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On Monday morning, a significant Guantanamo case, Hatim v. Obama et al., will be argued before D.C. Circuit Judges Merrick Garland, Karen L. Henderson, and Thomas B. Griffith.
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Nelson Mandela died yesterday. We mourn his loss with deep appreciation and recognition of his unparalleled dedication to bettering the lives of others.
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There is much to admire in Erik Gartzke’s recent Lawfare essay, Fear and War in Cyberspace. Indeed, I find myself in substantial agreement with it as a proposition reflecting the reality of today. But ...
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That's the gist of tonight's report, from Politico's Josh Gerstein:
President Barack Obama said Thursday that he'll be reining in some of the snooping conducted by the National Security Agency, but he ...
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In another forum, my colleague, Rafal Rohozinski, made some interesting observations about the Greenwald/Snowden disclosures as they relate to Canada. Rohozinski was formerly a Fellow at Harvard's Berkm...
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The detainees in Aamer v. Obama, the force-feeding case on appeal before the D.C. Circuit, have filed another letter with the court. In a Nov. 21 letter, the government notified the court that the force-...
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At least 29 people are dead and more than 70 are hurt after a series of attacks on Yemen’s defense ministry early this morning. The attacks were two-pronged: a suicide bomb blew open the gates and front ...
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The transfer of two Algerian detainees at Guantanamo Bay was announced this morning by the Department of Defense:
The Department of Defense announced on Dec. 5 the transfer of Djamel Saiid Ali Ameziane a...
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In breaking news, the Washington Post's Barton Gellman and Ashkan Soltani kick us off with more Snowden leaked documents, which reveal that the NSA is gathering "5 billion records a day on the whereabout...
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Recent research in Germany, reported earlier this week in Ars Technica, raises a troubling prospect. The researchers have "proposed a malware prototype that uses inaudible audio signals to communicate, ...
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That, at least, seems to be the point of this story in the Guardian, which opens:
The EU executive is threatening to freeze crucial data-sharing arrangements with the US because of the Edward Snowden rev...
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Lawfare readers will recall that I earlier blogged about the Federal Trade Commission's case against Wyndham Hotels. Under the mantle of its consumer protection mandate, the FTC has sought to impose civ...
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It is somewhat old news, though refreshed a bit in light of yesterday's Ali decision from the D.C. Circuit: on November 19, lawyers for another Guantanamo detainee, Abdul al Qader Ahmed Hussain, asked th...
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Both Raffaela and Steve have already noted the D.C. Circuit's opinion yesterday in Abdul Razak Ali v. Obama, the latest Guantanamo habeas case.
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As Steve already noted, the D.C. Circuit has affirmed the district court's denial of a writ of habeas corpus to Guantanamo detainee Abdul Razak Ali. We covered the oral argument this fall, in preview and...
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Just before Thanksgiving, the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (which has among its membership luminaries such as Eric Schmidt of Google and Shirley Ann Jackson, the President of...
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The Lieber Society on the Law of Armed Conflict writes in with the following announcement:
CALL FOR PAPERS
FOR THE 2014 LIEBER SOCIETY
RICHARD R. BAXTER MILITARY WRITING PRIZE
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Carrie Johnson of NPR speaks on Morning Edition today to assess what we've learned from all the NSA surveillance program declassifications.
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This morning's D.C. Circuit decision in Ali v. Obama is not exactly a shocker, given the court's ever-solidifying body of jurisprudence on the scope of the government's power to detain non-citizen terror...
