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Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin said today that any cut-off of foreign assistance to Egypt that might be required by U.S.
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The order entering the stay, by Circuit Judges Rogers, Brown, and Kavanaugh, is here. It essentially pauses enforcement of last week's order, by Judge Royce Lamberth, that partially invalidated certain ...
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Hadas Gold of Politico reports that Sen.
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The opinion, which I've only now begun to skim, is here. From the decision's opening paragraphs:
On December 31, 2011, President Obama signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal...
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One of the most illuminating documents Edward Snowden has disclosed is this draft 2009 report by the NSA inspector general, which the Guardian released late last month.
The report, beyond the brief flur...
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Judge Rosemary Collyer today denied the three remaining motions for a preliminary injunction against force feeding at Guantanamo, concluding that she lacked jurisdiction over the motions.
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Judge Reggie Walton, the presiding judge on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ("FISC"), has ordered the Obama administration to conduct a declassification review of another order from that cour...
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The Senate Commerce Committee recently began circulating a staff discussion draft of cybersecurity legislation.
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I thought readers might be interested in knowing about a workshop that will take place later this week at Oxford, under the joint sponsorship of Oxford's Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict and ...
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Consistent with my general tardiness, I neglected to report that on June 24, the Supreme Court requested the views of the Solicitor General regarding whether to grant cert in the Samantar case. (Mohame...
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It's a battle over the latest case law in Hamad v. Gates, a GTMO-related appeal now awaiting decision from the Ninth Circuit.
After oral argument on June 5, the government noted certain supplemental au...
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Let’s begin the week with some good news: 25 Guantanamo Bay detainees ended their hunger strike during Ramadan. Although 45 are still being force-fed, the number of hunger strikers is at 81, reports Caro...
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This morning both the WSJ (behind paywall) and NYT have stories on how law and lawyers have influenced the changing USG posture on intervening in Syria. The gist of the WSJ story is that administration ...
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The United States is pressing hard to get hold of National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden. But if and when Snowden is apprehended, what then? This question deserves attention, too, because the den...
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It is the Friday of, as they say in Arabic, "Zahf."
The word connotes a kind of military advance or march---in this case, of supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi, pushing steadily from the gove...
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A Brookings event from the other day, hosted by the other Brookings Wittes.
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Today's New York Times, brings a rich article by Nicole Perlroth and David Sanger on the growing market in zero-day exploits. Zero-day exploits are previously unknown flaws in computer programming that ...
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Crafted with his characteristic mix of brilliance and dark speculations about the motives of government actors, Stephen Holmes, my colleague, has published an exceptionally rich essay in the Financial Ti...
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Laura Dean continued her online Cairo diary, chronicling the goings-on in Egypt. Read all her posts here.
A lot of legal fireworks went off at Guantanamo this week: U.S. District Court Judge Gladys Kess...
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Available here.
This report is Attorney General Eric Holder's response to President Obama's order of a review of departmental policies with respect to the media.
