Speaking of Laura Dean, she also sent me this morning the following account of ongoing and planned protests in Cairo: It’s a hot muggy day in the restless Egyptian capital. A white haze of pollution brin...

Here is the latest development in the Al-Bahlul appeal before the D.C. Circuit. Readers may recall that in May, the court received conflicting statements from detainee and counsel---one from Mr. Al-Bahlu...

A few weeks ago, Brookings hosted a talk by Rached Ghannouchi, the head of Tunisia's ruling---and moderately Islamist---El Nahdha party, gave a talk at the Brookings Institution, a talk we ran as the mos...

It's a big week at the Supreme Court, but Guantanamo habeas heads will not want to miss this development: the cert denial in Obaydullah on Monday. Steve wrote about this cert petition here, and coverage ...

This, from the estimable Josh Gerstein of Politico, is disspiriting: Following a complaint from two senators, the National Security Agency has removed from its website two fact sheets designed to shed li...

Last week, the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) approved its version of the National Defense Authorization Act for FY2014.

Philip Bobbitt (Columbia Law School, and the author of, among many other things, Terror and Consent) writes in: Three thoughts on the Snowden matter. First, Snowden's strongest point: how can the govern...

Earlier, I posted my read on the leaked NSA targeting and minimization procedures. Unsurprisingly, the ACLU has a rather different take.

Edward Snowden is on the move, in Moscow and reportedly heading towards Ecuador, but I will leave coverage of that to the daily press.

In his NDU speech, President Obama asserted that “there is no justification beyond politics for Congress to prevent us from closing a facility that should never have been opened.”  As has become fairly t...

The age of international and transnational terrorism came to prominence in the late 1960s and 70s, and then kicked into high gear in the 1980s, particularly where terrorists were supported by, and someti...

Th Washington Post and New York Times report.The three-count criminal complaint---alleging theft of government property, unauthorized communication of national defense information, and willful communicat...

Here is Brig. Gen. Mark Martins's statement on this week's hearings in United States v. Mohammad et al. It opens: Good afternoon. I am pleased to have the opportunity to speak with you after five d...