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Following up on Ben's Death Star White House denial, we must note the response of the Air Force General Counsel's Twitter account. And I query over at Opinio Juris whether one day the Administration's pr...
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A few weeks ago, I linked to this amusing petition on the White House web site for the United States "to secure funding and resources, and begin construction on a Death Star by 2016." The White House pro...
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Further to Ben's post on Jennifer Daskal's NYT Guantanamo op-ed today, over at Opinio Juris I comment on a different part of the op-ed. Ben refers in part to reasons Jen offers why a transfer of Guantan...
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The meeting between Presidents Obama and Karzai today appears to have produced an agreement that will revive the process of shutting down U.S. detention operations in Afghanistan. As reported in the Wal...
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From the Military Commissions' website, we learn that the upcoming hearing inUnited States v. Al-Nashiri will be postponed:
Pursuant to a request by defense, the military judge has rescheduled the motion...
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Lest you forget, today marks the nationwide release of "Zero Dark Thirty." Surely you won't miss that.
Ben already posted about Jen Daskal's New York Times op-ed. Jen argues against closing the Guantan...
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As I discuss in my forthcoming book, International Law in the U.S. Legal System, regardless of whether customary international law has the status of self-executing federal law, it can play an important r...
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This is very exciting: Shane Harris has a new blog: Dead Drop, a "blog about national security and Washington." Shane, for those readers unfamiliar with his work, is a national security features writer o...
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To commemorate (if that's even the right word) the eleventh anniversary of the detention of non-citizens at Guantánamo, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Laura Poitras (whose work includes, among others, The Oat...
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Jennifer Daskal---who is a fellow at Georgetown law these days, after serving as NSD and working for Human Rights Watch---has a genuinely brave oped in the New York Times this morning entitled "Don't Clo...
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Fresh from the Guantanamo security scrub: an amended docketing order for the upcoming hearing, late this month, in United States v. Mohammed et. al.
Judge James Pohl has set forth 23 motions for argum...
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In this special episode of the Lawfare Podcast, Military Commission Chief Prosecutor Brigadier General Mark Martins discusses his decision to recommend dropping conspiracy charges against Khalid Sheikh M...
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In the New York Times, Scott Shane updates us on the Bradley Manning hearings, including some juicy details about evidence the prosecution plans to introduce: among other things, Wikileak-ed cables that ...
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Former UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office Legal Adviser Daniel Bethlehem has just published an important piece in the latest issue of the American Journal of International Law. The article, entitled “Sel...
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Yesterday, we posted the government's supplemental brief in the Al Bahlul military commission appeal in the D.C.
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Yesterday the judge in the Bradley Manning trial found that the 9 months of solitary confinement he was subjected to was "more rigorous than necessary," and, as a result, credited 112 days toward a futur...
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Lawfare, the web's premier source for news and analysis in national security law, is seeking interested and highly motivated law students to help build Lawfare's emerging Wiki library. Successful candida...
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So begins this interesting opinion from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, in a habeas case brought by Guantanamo detainee Mohammed Morafa:
On a petition for a writ for habeas...
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...is available here. In a nutshell:
Hamdan II requires reversal of Bahlul’s convictions by military commission of providing material support for terrorism, conspiracy to commit war crimes, and solicita...
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From the Hedges files: attorneys for Senators McCain, Ayotte, and Graham yesterday submitted this reply brief in support of their motion to participate in oral argument before the Second Circuit. (The H...
