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There was an attack today on the headquarters of Afghanistan's intelligence agency. At least one person has been killed, say Kevin Sieff and Sayed Salahuddin of the Washington Post.
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This is interesting.
Judge James Pohl yesterday denied---without prejudice---a key motion to dismiss (AE 104) brought by lawyers for Abd al Rahim Hussayn Muhammad al-Nashiri.
In summary, the defense ha...
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Rezwan Ferdaus, a 26-year-old U.S.-born citizen of Bangladeshi origin, was arrested in September 2011 for plotting to attack the Pentagon and the Capitol Building with remote-controlled model airplanes c...
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I have added several new feeds to the Lawfare News Feed:
The Washington Post's national security feed;
The Long War Journal;
The
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The WSJ reports that U.S. banks “are pressing for government action to block or squelch what Washington officials say is an intensifying Iranian campaign of cyberattacks against American financial instit...
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Judge James Pohl apparently has rejected the defense's bid, in the 9/11 case, to presume (subject to rebuttal) the Constitution's application to military commission proceedings.
We don't have the court'...
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Pakistan’s Supreme Court has ordered the arrest of the country’s prime minister, Raja Pervez Ashraf, over allegations that he took millions of dollars in kickbacks during the construction of two electric...
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Lawfare readers might be interested to follow a Volokh Conspiracy online debate between Lawfare senior contributor/NYU professor Rick Pildes and Volokh blogger/Georgetown professor Nick Rosenkranz on whe...
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The Sunday NYT story on the French intervention in Mali noted that the United States had long trained Mali forces but had also long believed that “a Western assault on the Islamist stronghold could rally...
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Tom Malinowski of Human Rights Watch writes in with the latest salvo in our ongoing debate about robots with autonomous firing power---in a post that, I'm afraid, sets a new standard for multi-media gues...
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An informed observer in the executive branch writes in response to Bobby and my post of earlier today on Eric Holder's decision to continue the appeal in Al Bahlul:
Let me offer for your consideration an...
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Reported on Friday by the Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg: defense attorneys in United States v.
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For all those law students---and others---in the Washington area interested in helping us build the Lawfare Wiki Document Library, come on over to Georgetown Law (Room 206 in McDonough) this Friday to ta...
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John Brennan, nominated by President Obama to become the next CIA director, will apparently face some tough questioning from Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) at his Senate confirmation hearings (reportedly set f...
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My excitement over Shane Harris's new blog, Dead Drop, provides a catalyst for an action I have been meaning to take for some time: creating an automated page on Lawfare for outside news feeds of particu...
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Aaaaand . . . I’m back! Minus a few wisdom teeth---and with a lot more Thai food in my belly. But Raffaela’s partisans need not weep; she will alternate with me covering national security news and analys...
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We refrained last week from expressing much opinion on the decisions by both Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins and by the Justice Department in the Al Bahlul case concerning how to handl...
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Current events in Africa illustrate the unintended and sometimes-self-defeating effects of humanitarian efforts on that continent.
First, France’s military action against Islamist insurgents in Mali rai...
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With some hesitancy at the sense of shameless self-promotion it necessarily entails, I am very pleased to to announce today that my book Cyber Warfare: How Conflicts in Cyberspace are Challenging Americ...
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Last week saw several new developments in the Bradley Manning case. Prosecutors announced on Wednesday that they intend to offer evidence that Osama bin Laden received some of the classified information ...
