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In case you didn't hear, more than one opinion came down today at the Supreme Court. In addition to the health care decision, the justices affirmed the 9th Circuit's invalidation of the Stolen Valor Act,...
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A light news day on the law-and-security front--so you can focus on the health care decision.
The Taliban has released a video that allegedly shows seventeen beheaded Pakistani soldiers.
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Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman Al Bahlul has filed his reply brief in his appeal of his military commission conviction in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. You'll recall that Al Ba...
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For D.C.-area readers, I'll be participating in what should be a lively discussion of the current and future legal and policy issues surrounding military commissions (I suspect it will be that much livel...
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Why have victims of alleged governmental misconduct arising out of post-September 11 counter-terrorism policies met with virtually no success thus far in pursuing damages claims arising out of the govern...
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Big Pakistan news day today. The Associated Press reports that ISAF Commander General John Allen is meeting the Frenemies today to discuss the still-at-large Haqqani network and the still-not-open suppl...
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The United States District Court for the District of Columbia yesterday granted the United States' motion to dismiss in Wahid v. Gates - a habeas case in which the petitioner had challenged his detention...
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Jessica Herrera-Flanigan certainly seems to think so and, honestly, I can't disagree with her. From the article:
Even if cybersecurity legislation does get through the Senate, there is not a clear path ...
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I thought Lawfare readers might find at once fascinating and amusing these Powerpoint slides from the Chinese presentation at the recent MILOPS conference in Singapore. They’re, uh, certainly unencumbere...
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All of us at Lawfare extend a warm welcome to Rear Adm. John W. Smith, Jr. He is the new commander of Guantanamo Bay detention center, replacing Rear Adm.
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James Connell III, a lawyer for 9/11 accused Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, has released this statement regarding residual issues related to torture and coercion. In particular, he says that he and other lawyers e...
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I missed this the other day, but it seems to me extraordinary: A former president seems to be calling the current president of his own party an assassin.
If you think that's hyperbole, read Jimmy Carter...
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Just a quick follow-up on my post of this morning. A correspondent points out to me that on David Remes's definition of "prevailing," Boumediene itself should be counted as a government win. After all, t...
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Director of National Intelligence James R.
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Last week, two defense motions were released in United States v.
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The government has filed its supplemental brief in Hamdan on the question of whether the case is moot. We shared a few weeks back Hamdan's supplemental brief on the issue. As Wells explained in that post...
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Let's begin with terrorist trial news.
The Washington Post reports that Amine Mohammed El Khalifi pleaded guilty late Friday for "attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction against federal property....
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In his response to my earlier post on the New York Times's 19-to-0 figure--which turns out, he says, to be his 19-to-0 figure--David Remes makes several interesting points worthy of comment. I wish to fo...
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The Department of Defense has unsealed Khalid Sheik Mohammed’s response to Judge Pohl’s show cause order – in which the commission had asked the government to explain why the 9/11 defendants should not b...
