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Developing Boston news: three additional suspects have been taken into custody in connection with the case, according to this tweet released by the Boston Police.
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On the Sunday talk shows, various members of Congress exhorted the United States to increase its assistance to the Syrian rebels, whether by providing them with additional (lethal) equipment, or by estab...
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I had an odd meeting of the minds today---with Glenn Greenwald.
After I posted my bewildered comments on President Obama's Guantanamo remarks this afternoon, I received the following email from Greenwal...
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I confess myself mystified by President Obama's comments about Guantanamo this morning. Here is what the President said---with the parts I find confusing bolded:
QUESTION: Mr. President, as you're probab...
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Forty Navy medics arrived at GTMO on Monday as the GTMO hunger strike population exceeded 100 detainees.
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Earlier this morning, President Obama conducted a news conference. The questions touched on, among other things, the closure of the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, and the detainees' ongoing hunge...
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Susan Landau, author of Surveillance or Security?
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This Washington Post article by Dana Priest is an excellent primer for those looking for an introduction to the particulars of US intelligence support to Mexico's counter-cartel activities, as well as th...
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As Raffaela has already noted, in today's Washington Post there is a fascinating story about government plans to require new cyber communications technologies to provide a means by which the government c...
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MSNBC counts the total number of GTMO detainees participating in the hunger strike at 100.
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Neal Katyal has a review of my book Power and Constraint in the Harvard Law Review. My response is here. Neal’s review basically claims that I don’t understand American separation of powers, and my res...
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Carrie Cordero, Georgetown’s Director of National Security Studies and a former Justice Department official, writes in with this piece on the Boston attacks and possible improvements to our approach to c...
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In mid-March, I noted a speech by Home Secretary Theresa May, in which she advanced the idea that the UK should consider withdrawing from the European Convention on Human Rights. As I noted then, the Eu...
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I was away when the New York Times ran its latest editorial related to national security legal issues, so I’m afraid I did not fly-speck “The Guantanamo Stain” for factual errors. No matter. It doesn’t ...
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On Monday, my Brookings colleague Bruce Riedel held an excellent discussion with Philip Mudd, former deputy director of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center and author of the new book Takedown: Inside the H...
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The Hill reports:
The head of the House Intelligence panel is worried the Justice Department may have jeopardized the public’s safety by allowing a federal judge to read the Boston bombing suspect his Mi...
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Much of this week's Lawfare commentary concerned the recently-filed case against Boston bombing suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev. But that's not all. Among other things, we noted critical developments in Guantan...
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Going to a university campus to defend the use of armed drones is a little like ascending the pulpit in a Southern Baptist church on a Sunday morning to speak on behalf of the Devil.
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Now that the United States has acknowledged – with a modest level of confidence – that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons against the rebels, many press articles are asking whether (or argui...
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Let’s begin with this New York Times editorial on the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. The board argues that President George W. Bush’s “tough decisions” during his time in office have led this country...
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