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I agree with much of what Jack says in his recent post about the counterterrorism issues likely to face President Obama in his second term.
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The Lawfare Wiki Document Library wants you!
The next big phase of Lawfare expansion involves the creation of a large document library---a kind of one-stop-shopping for primary source material in the fi...
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In connection with the Petraeus matter, the NYT reports:
The Federal Bureau of Investigation did not inform the Senate and House Intelligence Committees about the inquiry until this week, according to Co...
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David Remes, who represents several Yemeni detainees at Guantanamo Bay, writes in response to my comments this morning on Eric Lewis's New York Times column:
Ben chides Eric Lewis for setting goals Ben t...
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Yesterday, I linked to this new blog---called the Air Force General Counsel Blog. I asked Air Force General Counsel Charles Blanchard about the project. He responded:
Our hopes for the blog are modest. ...
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So reports NBC News, which apparently obtained a copy of Petraeus' statement to the CIA workforce. From the NBC report's opening:
CIA Director David Petraeus resigned Friday, citing an extramarital affa...
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Back in June, I wrote a fairly lengthy post analyzing the ability of detainees in U.S. custody facing extradition or other involuntary transfer to a foreign sovereign to challenge their transfer pursuant...
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While we were busy fretting about which candidate was going to win the U.S. presidential election, Iran fired at one of our drones in the Persian Gulf last week. Barbara Starr of CNN’s Security Clearance...
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One important consequence of President Obama’s re-election will be the further entrenchment, and legitimation, of the basic counterterrorism policies that Obama continued, with tweaks, from the late Bush...
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Writing at the New York Times web site, Eric Lewis of Lewis Baach, describes a human rights agenda for the Obama administration's second term:
First, he must release certain Guantánamo detainees, who hav...
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I was struck by this report of a recent oral argument in the 2nd Circuit involving a terrorism prosecution. The defendant (and his co-conspirators) were convicted of having plotted to blow up a synagogu...
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This has gotta be a first of some kind.
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Noah Shachtman of Wired magazine’s Danger Room describes the criminal history of Mark Basseley Youssef, the delightful individual behind the “Innocence of Muslims” film that sparked protests across the A...
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The long national nightmare is over. We can all breathe a huge, collective sigh of relief.
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A sharply-divide en banc Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has handed down its opinion in Vance v. Rumsefeld, reversing a panel decision to allow a suit by American citizens alleging detention and torture...
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The government has filed its its opening brief in the Second Circuit Hedges appeal. The introduction reads:
This suit is brought by a handful of journalists and activists who, based on their stated activ...
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On Friday, attorneys for 9/11 accused Mustafa al-Hawsawi filed a motion to dismiss the charges for lack of jurisdiction (AE 107). In the motion---which is still undergoing security review, and thus not...
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I bet you thought we'd take today off of the roundup, didn't you? But as long as there are reporters out there covering things other the opening of the polls in Dixville Notch and Hart's Location at midn...
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If you are around DC on Thursday, November 8, and have an interest in cyberwarfare and law, the AU International Law Journal and National Security Law Brief are jointly presenting a program at Washington...
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I've been around this town long enough to know that Lawfare will not be the site that everyone is checking obsessively today. We're not going to have exit polls here, and this may well be the only time y...
