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One of the fun things about having a book review is that occasionally, publishers send me books that---for whatever unfathomable reason---they think Lawfare might want to write about. We’ve had some stif...
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“How the hell can we run sensitive operations here that go after enemies if people are allowed to do that?,” asked Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, on CBS, in response to the revelations about the Bin ...
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Tom Ricks has an uncharacteristically uninformed post about the No Easy Day kerfuffle, in which he claims that it “would be a bad thing if people came to expect some sort of right of the military to revi...
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Here’s Reuters on the story. Here’s Josh Gerstein in Politico.
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A suicide bombing in Kabul outside of NATO HQ killed eight civilians. Afghan police say that the bomber was only 14 years old.
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As most readers of Lawfare are aware, we have a strict no comments policy on this blog. I have publicly defended this policy against criticism, promised it would never change, and have even made a video ...
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Here’s a challenge: Can either President Obama or any member of Congress explain why it makes good sense to require 28,000 senior executive officials to post their financial disclosure forms (containing...
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Tom Malinowski of Human Rights Watch writes in with the following comments in response to my recent post on Human Rights Watch's new allegations of water boarding by the CIA:I’m shocked that you’re shock...
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Details available from Skating on Stilts -- HT: Stewart Baker. I'll have some analysis and thoughts later this weekend.
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I have largely suspended my campaign of fact-checking New York Times editorials, but this one is too good to pass up. In his opinion the other day on counsel access issues at Guantanamo, Judge Royce Lamb...
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The State Department has announced that it will, at long last, designate the Haqqani Network as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. Apart from the rhetorical value of the designation, the main consequence...
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Let's begin with the moment for which we've all been waiting with baited breath: the Obama administration's official decision on the Haqqani network. Drumroll, please. . . . They're bad guys.
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On September 4, Judge Naomi Buchwald of the Southern District of New York dismissed an Alien Tort Statute suit against President Mahinda Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka, on the basis of a Suggestion of Immunity f...
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Shane Harris at Washingtonian has this snarky little piece about what Mark Owen aka the "squealing SEAL" can do to stay out of prison---since the Pentagon has decided that the book does, in fact, reveal ...
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Chief Judge Royce Lamberth's order is here.
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As Ben mentioned this morning, big news on the enhanced interrogation front.
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Speaking of reports I haven’t yet read, the Open Society Foundations has just released a report entitled “Remaking Bagram: The Creation of an Afghan Internment Regime and the Divide Over U.S. Detention P...
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To the list of upcoming habeas cases in the court of appeals, add these: first, Khairkhwa v. Obama, which is set for argument on October 5th; and second, Hussain v.
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Amy Zegart of the Hoover Institution, author of several terrific books on intelligence, now has a regular column on intelligence matters at Foreign Policy that should be of great interest to Lawfare read...
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The New York Times has the story here about this new Human Rights Watch report concerning the handling of Libyan detainees transferred to Libyan custody after 2004. I haven't read the report yet--by Laur...
