This op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal is part of the Administration's push for comprehensive cyber legislation.  Here's a taste of his views: It doesn't take much to imagine the consequences of a suc...

Late last night Senators Lieberman and Collins introduced revised cybersecurity legislation.  A short summary of the revised Cybersecurity Act of 2012 suggests that the major changes are 1) elimination o...

Over at Forbes.com, the estimable Gregory McNeal has this article about a new Army manual on preventing harm to civilians.

As I noted yesterday, the highest court in the U.S. military justice system—the Article I Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (“CAAF”), a circuit-level court with mostly discretionary jurisdiction over...

Last week, security officials unsealed John Kiriakou's consolidated reply - in which the defendant takes on the government's opposition to his motion for a bill of particulars, and his motion to dismiss ...

The New York Times has just published a story in which it quotes an unnamed "senior American official" who confirms Israel's assertions that the Bulgaria bombing was carried out by a Hezbollah cell opera...

Earlier today, numerous Israeli English-language media outlets (Times of Israel, Haaretz) picked up Bulgarian news stories that identified the Bulgarian suicide bomber as Mehdi Ghezali, a 33-year old Swe...

The Chief Prosecutor's full statement follows below: CHIEF PROSECUTOR MARK MARTINS REMARKS AT GUANTANAMO BAY 19 JULY 2012

We turn to the day’s final motion, AE97, regarding the defense’s request to compel the timely translation of documents into Arabic for Al-Nashiri.  The motion is brand-spanking new; the defense filed it ...

With lunch recess cancelled, we move swiftly to AE81, the defense motion to make commission proceedings available to other media outlets.  Defense attorney Richard Kammen has modest desires for this moti...

Again it is Reyes for the defense.  His subject?  The Convening Authority, the Constitution’s Appointments Clause, and the defense’s motion to dismiss on Appointments Clause grounds (AE87).  The Conveni...

Defense attorney Lt. Cdr. Stephen Reyes is up first for AE86---the motion to withdraw the charges because of an improper referral by the Convening Authority.  The issue is this, he says: ordinarily, the ...

Judge Pohl bids good morning to our Guantanamo courtroom audience (and thus, indirectly, to those of us in the CCTV facility cheap seats).  But wait: he’s not yet attired in his customary, authority-eman...

Coming to you live from Guantanamo, via Fort Meade CCTV: the third day of the motions session in United States v. Al-Nashiri.  As before, we'll have blog posts up in the "Events Coverage" section, with l...

Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins released a statement following the completion of yesterday's hearing in United States v. Al-Nashiri.

Given the track record of the Law of War revision project, smart money probably has to be on the ICRC, even with a 2015 estimate for the first volume in their new series (see here).  Of course, both proj...

It's turned out to be a very big news day in national security litigation land... In addition to the extensive coverage of Aulaqi v. Panetta (to which I hope to add some thoughts of my own later tonight)...

Over at the AEIdeas blog, Marc Thiessen asks derisively: “Why is the ACLU suiting Panetta, Petraus over Awlaki Killing—But Not President Obama?” He writes: if it’s accountability they want, then why isn...