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Here's the opinion--from a panel consisting of Judges Merrick Garland and Karen LeCraft Henderson and Chief Judge David Sentelle. The opinion denying Obaydullah's Guantanamo habeas appeal is a per curiam...
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I've been away on business travel this past week and am headed off on vacation next week so blogging for me has been light. But one recent post caught my eye and motivated me to add a quick note:
My co...
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Late on a Friday afternoon, I take a break from other work in order to bring you the following food-for-thought:
We often think about the policy and legal issues that will arise when the jump is made fr...
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This just in - sort of. On Wednesday, Judge Leonie Brinkema denied John Kiriakou's motion to dismiss certain counts against him on vagueness and overbreadth grounds. Not at all surprising stuff, consid...
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It’s a light news day---as Fridays can sometimes be.
The Associated Press reports on developments in the case of alleged Fort Hood shooter, Maj. Nidal Hasan.
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As usual, Ellen Nakashima has the latest details in connection with the long-running debate over standing rules of engagement for CYBERCOM operations in connection with more active forms of defense, part...
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From Courthouse New Service:
Invoking the mass detention of Japanese-Americans during World War II, a federal judge on Tuesday appeared ready to uphold her injunction against the law that lets the U.S. ...
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U.S. Policy Toward Yemen
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Let’s begin with more news about Wade Michael Page, the U.S. army veteran apparently responsible for the rampage at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin over the weekend.
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A new filing yesterday, in parallel FOIA actions regarding the targeted killing program: the government's "Combined Opposition to Plaintiffs' Cross-Motions for Summary Judgment and Reply in Further Supp...
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Yesterday the NYPD unveiled its Domain Awareness System, which aggregates and analyzes existing public safety data streams (including license plate readers and video surveillance camera systems) in real ...
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I am on vacation, and blogging only minimally, so I missed this week's hearing before Judge Katherine Forrest on the plaintiff's request for a permanent injunction in Hedges. Seeing as how the argument t...
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Secretary of Defense Panetta has directed the Defense Legal Policy Board to form a subcommittee to examine "military justice in cases of U.S.
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And, you know, some related stuff - like drone strikes and security leaks.
C-Span's coverage of the speech, which Brennan gave earlier today at the Council on Foreign Relations, is here.
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Three NATO troops and at least seven other people were killed in coordinated suicide bombings in Afghanistan today.Read the Washington Post story here, and Carlo Munoz's story at The Hill, and read Matthew
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A big win for the government today in the Ninth Circuit, in a case exploring the impact of FISA's civil liability provision (50 USC 1810) on sovereign immunity. In a panel opinion written by Judge McKeo...
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Pepperdine law professor Greg McNeal, whose work Lawfare follows closely, is attending the 2012 North America exhibition of the Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (#AUVSI) in Las Vegas...
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The Justice Department today filed its response to a motion, in which certain Guantanamo detainees had challenged the Department's attempt to regulate the detainees' access to their attorneys.
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Light news day.
Stewart Baker has been blogging about the failure of the Senate to find common ground on cybersecurity issues, and now the Washington Post editorial board writes on its displeasure over ...
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Just noticed this: It seems that the Open Society Foundations has brought suit in the European Court of Human Rights against at least two Eastern European countries on behalf of suspected USS Cole bomber...
