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From last night's News Hour:
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Next Tuesday, the D.C.
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On New Year's Eve the New York Times reported that the Karzai Administration has given preliminary approval for the release of 88 Afghan detainees who were once held in US custody in Afghanistan and who ...
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David Remes, long-time Guantanamo habeas defense counsel, writes in with this recap of major Guantanamo developments in 2013:
Summation
The year saw heightened misery for the detainees, but also glimm...
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Greetings, 2014.
On New Year's Eve, Eastern District of New York Judge Edward Korman handed down his ruling in an important border search case. He dismissed a lawsuit brought by a victim of a laptop bor...
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The War on Law Reviews continues on many fronts: land, sea, air, and particularly in the cyber domain, where today I am pleased to offer the next paper in the Lawfare Research Paper Series: Joel Brenner’...
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Yesterday, I raised issues regarding the review group’s process and deliberations. Today’s post focuses on several of the major themes of the report. Tomorrow’s third, and final, post will address what m...
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Speaking of Stewart Baker, the former policy chief at DHS and NSA general counsel, he has---over at his Skating on Stilts
site, announced the results of his first Privy Awards for dubious accomplishment...
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I confess that I was not expecting the first response to my posts analyzing the Review Group recommendations would be one accusing me of going soft on the Review Group. But today, Stewart Baker, former N...
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Over the past week and a half, writers on this site have provided comprehensive and detailed summaries of the surveillance review group report, along with some observations and assessments, as well as sh...
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In Parts I and II of this series, I focused on the Review Group recommendations from Chapter III of the group's report. Starting in this post, I turn to the recommendations of Chapter IV, which deal with...
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The Obama Administration's Guantanamo envoys Clifford Sloan and Paul Lewis (at State and DoD respectively) should be commended for their hard work to resettle the last of the 22 Uighurs from Guantanamo. ...
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Today the Department of Defense announced that Yusef Abbas, Saidullah Khalik, and Hajiakbar Abdul Ghuper have been transferred to the government of Slovakia, and will voluntarily settle in that country. ...
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...will be taking the day off today and tomorrow for New Years. Thanks very much for sticking with us in 2013, and a Happy New Year to all!
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On Christmas Eve, a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit handed down its opinion in a habeas appeal brought by three detainees held by the United States at Bagram Air Force Base's Parwan detention facil...
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Eric Posner has a new blog, and some of the issues on it will be of interest to Lawfare readers. For example, this post discusses Eric's recent constitutional defense (on Slate) of the NSA meta-data pro...
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It was filed two Mondays ago, evidently, in this long-running detention case; I've only seen the Westlaw version, which interested readers can access here.
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Today a suicide bomber in Volgograd killed 14 people on a bus, in the second terrorist attack on the southern Russian city in less than 24 hours, reports the Wall Street Journal.
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As Raffaela previously noted, the case of Abdullah v. Obama is an exercise in "heel dragging and losing arguments." A brief refresher on the case: the legal saga started when Guantanamo detainee Hani Sal...
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On Friday Jack offered some thoughts on Evgeny Morozov's piece in the Financial Times about the broader implications of the Snowden revelations, overlooked by those intent on fitting each new leak into a...
