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Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Brig. Gen. Mark Martins has issued the following statement to the media: Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins Remarks at Guantanamo Bay 22 August 2012
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This is the second in a series of interviews I am doing with scholars around town who have non-legal expertise that bears on the national security law issues Lawfare readers care about.
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Ben beat me to it, but this morning, the D.C Circuit issued a terse order removing United States v.
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This is interesting. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has just entered the following docket order in the military commission appeal of Ali Hamza Ahmad al Bahlul:
CLERK'S ORDER filed . . . , on the cou...
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The Obama administration's line-drawing yesterday on what it would take to bring U.S. involvement in the Syria conflict has some none too pleased. Critics of the decision say that Syrian President Bashar...
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So reports Carol Rosenberg from the Miami Herald.
Apparently--and, as the Washington Post reports, for technical reasons--the train crash in Ellicott City, Maryland somehow lead to a break in the intern...
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The motions hearing that begins tomorrow in the 9/11 military commissions case is far too sprawling to preview motion by motion. Instead, we've broken it up thematically. Nearly all of the 25 motions on ...
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Just so y'all know: the military commission expects a more orderly affair this time around, in United States v. Mohammed et al. More orderly, at any rate, than May's rough-and-tumble arraignment. How d...
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Over at SCOTUSblog, there's a terrific symposium underway to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of The Least Dangerous Branch, Alex Bickel's seminal work on the Supreme Court and judicial review.
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Russia be warned: According to the BBC, President Obama has said that American military intervention is a possibility if Syria uses its chemical weapons.
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In Ben's non-Lawfare life, he runs the Brookings Institution's Campaign 2012 project, an event and paper series focusing on major issues the next president will face. Most of these papers are not releva...
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Here's a timely new article as the D.C. Circuit considers the military commission appeals in Hamdan and Bahlul--both of which challenge convictions based on, among other charges, material support for ter...
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Let’s begin with drones. As Matt noted last week, The Hill reports that the International Association of Chiefs of Police released guidelines for the use of domestic drones. Read the recommendations here.
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As Ben noted, this week and next will see one whopper of a hearing in the 9/11 case - two, really, the first spanning August 22-24 and the second August 26-28.
Apropos, Judge James Pohl recently amended...
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Hold onto your chairs. The motions hearing in the 9/11 military commissions case scheduled to begin on Wednesday promises to be a monster. The latest version of the docketing order is not yet public. The...
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Thanks to all who asked to be counted as regular Lawfare readers. The results of this tiny little survey have been helpful and illuminating--though they are admittedly somewhat tentative. Because I put t...
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Here’s your read-out on this morning’s oral argument, before Chief Judge Royce Lamberth, in what Lawfarers have come to know as the Guantanamo counsel access dispute. (Background can be found here, here...
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Two big news items about the battle over access to counsel at Guantanamo Bay that is currently taking place in the D.C. District Court.
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The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Governing Body this week approved Recommended Guidelines for the Use of Unmanned Aircraft (downloadable here) by American law enforcement agencies...
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Carrie Cordero, Georgetown’s Director of National Security Studies and a former Justice Department official, writes in with the following ruminations concerning lone wolf terrorist offenders:
No one real...
