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As Ben posted on Saturday, Omar Khadr has been repatriated to Canada.
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The question of when an armed conflict is underway for purposes of triggering the Geneva Conventions and other relevant law of war is not in principle difficult in the case inter-state international arme...
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Gabor Rona of Human Rights First writes in with the following comments in response to my brief post of yesterday directing readers' attentions to Captain Patrick McCarthy's testimony at Khadr's sentencin...
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Reviewed by Amy Sennett
Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power, by David E. Sanger (Crown 2012)
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Over at the Weekly Standard, Thomas Jocelyn of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies has this piece on the repatriation to Canada of Omar Khadr. Jocelyn is angry over the myths the international left...
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Or, at least, that's what CTV News is reporting:
After years of detention at the U.S.
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Most of the press coverage of the Lawfare Drone Smackdown has focused, understandably enough, on the FAA's intervention in the event. In this post, however, I want to focus on some of the lessons of the ...
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For those following Section 11 of the STOCK Act, this afternoon President Obama signed S. 3625, which delays until December 8 the dangerous and short-sighted requirement in Section 11 of the STOCK Act th...
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You can’t make this stuff up.
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Secretary Clinton said as much yesterday, but it's now official: the U.S. has confirmed that Al Qaeda is linked to the attack in Bengazi. Here's the Washington Post story. And over in Libya, the lack of ...
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Jack linked yesterday to this Charlie Savage story about this internal Romney campaign draft memo urging a full-throated embrace of “enhanced interrogation”---written a year ago by Romney’s “national sec...
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My law partner (and former CIA General Counsel) Jeff Smith and I have an op-ed in today's Washington Post (entitled "Is It Legal to Hit Iran?" in the print edition) discussing the U.S. and international...
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Briefing is now complete on the government’s motion to stay pending appeal in Hedges v. Obama. (You’ll recall that a circuit judge already stayed the district court’s order temporarily, pending resoluti...
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Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor, Brig. Gen. Mark Martins, is giving at this hour the following address at Chatham House in London:
Remarks of Brigadier General Mark Martins
Chief Prosecutor of Uni...
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This remarkable Wall Street Journal story came out over Yom Kippur, so I'm late in commenting on it. But it's worth everyone's attention. It opens:
About once a month, the Central Intelligence Agency sen...
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The Georgetown Center on National Security and the Law just posted the following job opportunity:
National Security Law Fellowship
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The Pentagon has permitted its employees to "get their hands on" Mark Owen's book, but can't discuss, blog or tweet about "potentially classified or sensitive contents of NED".
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The DoD has distributed a memo to its employees explaining its stance on Mark Owen's book No Easy Day, and I've got it right here (they even give the book an acronym!). It lays out guidelines for how Pen...
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Charlie Savage of the NYT has an interesting piece on a memorandum entitled “Interrogation Techniques” that Savage reports was circulated last year among the Romney campaign’s “National Security Law Subc...
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This is the third in a series of interviews I am doing with scholars around Washington D.C. who have non-legal expertise that bears on the national security legal questions near and dear to the hearts of...
