Shane Harris at Washingtonian has this snarky little piece about what Mark Owen aka the "squealing SEAL" can do to stay out of prison---since the Pentagon has decided that the book does, in fact, reveal ...

Chief Judge Royce Lamberth's order is here.

Speaking of reports I haven’t yet read, the Open Society Foundations has just released a report entitled “Remaking Bagram: The Creation of an Afghan Internment Regime and the Divide Over U.S. Detention P...

To the list of upcoming habeas cases in the court of appeals, add these: first, Khairkhwa v. Obama, which is set for argument on October 5th; and second, Hussain v.

Amy Zegart of the Hoover Institution, author of several terrific books on intelligence, now has a regular column on intelligence matters at Foreign Policy that should be of great interest to Lawfare read...

The New York Times has the story here about this new Human Rights Watch report concerning the handling of Libyan detainees transferred to Libyan custody after 2004. I haven't read the report yet--by Laur...

The New York Times has this piece about continuing U.S.

In a series of posts (here, here, and here) fellow Lawfare blogger John Bellinger has written about the difficulties with the STOCK Act -- what the Washington Post calls a "Laughing Stock."  Readers will...

This from Secretary Clinton in China: I also raised the growing threat of cyber attacks that are occurring on an increasing basis. Both the United States and China are victims of cyber attacks. Intellect...

It’s now public—as required by the 2012 Intelligence Authorization Act. Here’s the chart:

Yesterday the D.C. Circuit issued its decision in United States v.

Cambridge University Press has made this cache of terrorism articles from its international relations journals available for free--until October 6. Check 'em out.

This event, which I just added to the Lawfare Events Calendar, looks interesting: The Georgetown Center on National Security and the Law and the National Security Law Society Cordially invite you to a b...

Shane Harris at Washingtonian has this review of ex-Navy SEAL Matt Bissonette's book on the Osama bin Laden raid. It begins: “Let me be clear, I do not consider this to be my story,” writes retired N...

Last fall, a panel of the Ninth Circuit issued a sweeping decision in the long-running Alien Tort Statute suit against Rio Tinto rejecting Rio Tinto’s defenses on nearly every issue and prompting dissent...