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As Wells mentioned, the next hearings in the 9/11 cases at Guantanamo have been scheduled. Carol Rosenberg at the Miami Herald reminds us that the hearings will take place during Ramadan.
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So reports Carol Rosenberg of the Miami Herald: Judge Pohl has set another hearing in United States v.
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Both the NYT Becker-Shane “Kill List” story and the Klaidman book excerpt have implications for the pending ACLU FOIA suit in CADC, which seeks CIA records on CIA drone strikes.
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Dawood I. Ahmed, a lawyer and doctoral candidate at the University of Chicago Law School, writes in with the following thoughts on Pakistani press coverage of the Shakil Afridi case:
The conviction of Dr...
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No, I am not going to attack the New York Times for factual errors in its editorial this morning concerning President Obama's personal approval of drone targets. While there may be some, none jumped out ...
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Over at SCOTUSblog, Lyle Deniston yesterday noted that, according to the Supreme Court's electronic docket, the Court's Thursday conference will address seven petitions for review in detainee-related cas...
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I missed this great article by Elisabeth Bumiller at the New York Times yesterday--a close look at the question of whether the COIN strategy can be counted as successful or not.
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Earlier this week, Kevin Jon Heller and I had an exchange over what the Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA, Akhil Afridi, was actually charged with and convicted of. Writing at Opinio Juris, Kevin dismi...
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A couple of months ago, Hugo Rosemont, a Security Policy Adviser to the UK security industry and a doctoral student, sent in this account of the controversy in Britain over a government proposal to allow...
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Yesterday, I linked to this article in the New York Times on the development of Obama's counterterrorism policies. I did not know when I posted it that my old colleague, Dan Klaidman, had a book excerpt ...
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...on publication of his new book, Living With the UN: American Responsibilities and International Order--the subject of a lovely launch event at the Hoover Institution's Washington office this evening. ...
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That's the word from a member of the defense team, James Connell. His statement provides as follows:
This afternoon, the Guantanamo Bay military commission entered an order (AE035C) continuing the heari...
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Over at Volokh Conspiracy, I make some comments on the NYT article to which Ben linked this morning. My comments run to the kind of signals that the administration might be seeking to send about the tho...
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Headlines and Commentary took the beautiful and long weekend off (and we hope you did, too).
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A number of sources are reporting the discovery of a complex malware toolkit, mostly described as "Flame," which appears to have been distributed in a targeted fashion to infect computers in Iran in part...
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The Supreme Court issued orders this morning - but, as before, took no action on several Guantanamo-related petitions for certiorari.
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The New York Times this morning has a lengthy, rich, and detailed feature story on President Obama's counterterrorism record. Reporters Jo Becker and Scott Shane have done a really terrific job of bringi...
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...albeit in ancient Rome.
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Over at Opinio Juris, Kevin Jon Heller has a post complaining about Leon Panetta's recent lament that “[i]t is so difficult to understand and it’s so disturbing that [Pakistan] would sentence this doctor...
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George Washington University Law School's Laura A. Dickinson's book from Yale University Press (2012), Outsourcing War & Peace: Preserving Public Values in a World of Privatized Foreign Affairs, is quite...
