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Lawfare reader Col. Fritz Barth USMCR (ret.) writes in with this comment on the SCI nondisclosure obligations of Matthew Bissonnette, author of No Easy Day:
There is one additional element of Bissonette'...
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Ben and I wrote this article for Commonweal magazine, entitled "Two Parties, One Policy: Washington's New Consensus on Terrorism." It begins:
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As anti-American violence breaks out all over the world, let’s begin with the latest developments in Libya. CNN reports that four people have been arrested in connection with the attacks on the U.S. cons...
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Senators McCain, Hutchinson and Chambliss have an op ed in the Wall St.
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Raha Wala of Human Rights First writes in with the following response to my comments on Hedges. My thoughts follow his critique and very-cautious defense of Judge Forrest:
Ben’s post on Judge Forrest’s o...
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Well that sure didn't take long [h/t: emptywheel].
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Nico Martinez, a Lawfare reader and 3L at Stanford Law School, wrote in to flag two pieces he authored this year: the first about Judge William Young's proposal to try KSM and his coconspirators at Guant...
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Some good news from the judiciary: yesterday my former professor, Scott Silliman, was sworn in as a judge on the United States Court of Military Commission Review.
Congratulations, Judge Silliman!
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This afternoon, Judge Alexander Williams of the District Court in Maryland issued a preliminary injunction against implementation of Section 11 of the STOCK Act, which would require publication of the fi...
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An attorney who was deeply involved in the Al Bihani litigation sent me the following note about my post on the Hedges decision:
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To Libya first: the Economist argues that there actually has been progress in Libya toward peaceful, stable governance.
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Like Jack, I was struck by the Defense Science Board’s report on the autonomy of military systems, but it was a different aspect of the report that caught my eye – enough so that I thought it was worth n...
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There are a lot of questions one could ask about yesterday’s order in Hedges, to put it mildly. I’ll limit myself to this one: exactly what is the scope of Judge Forrest’s permanent injunction? (Steve ...
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I don't have a lot to add to Ben's analysis of Judge Forrest's decision yesterday in Hedges v.
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Here are a few upcoming events---which I have added to the Lawfare Events Calendar---but to which I wanted to draw the attention of readers who might be in New York or California.
Conference on Emerging...
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I have now read through Judge Forrest's opinion in Hedges---all 112 pages of it. I have done so only briskly, and I have surely missed things in my haste. But here are some initial thoughts.
The opinion...
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I have spent a lot of time publishing other people's statements on the death of Adnan Latif over the past couple of days and have refrained from expressing my own views---in part because I have been gath...
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I will offer my own thoughts on the death of Adnan Latif later on, but several people have sent me comments on the subject that I am going to post first. Rather than do this in a string posts, I’m going ...
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I haven't read it yet, but here it is.
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A drone has gone missing in Washington. No, not a Predator or a Reaper—and not one of the drones that is gearing up for the Lawfare Drone Smackdown. And no, not @drunkenpredator on his latest binge. It’s...
