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Lots going on before the long weekend.
Lets begin with more coverage of the “squealing SEAL”---aka Mark Owen aka Matt Bissonnette.
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Last night and this morning, I did a little tinkering with Lawfare's social networking features--which actually drive a good deal of traffic to the site. According to Google Analytics, Facebook is far an...
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Some detainee treatment news here: Attorney General Eric Holder today announced the end of a criminal investigation into the deaths of two detainees while in U.S. custody.
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Earlier today, Judge Rosemary Collyer rejected an attempt by attorneys for detainee Mohammed al Qahtani to modify two protective orders entered in al Qahtani's habeas case.
The proposed modification con...
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The Obama administration confirmed yesterday that the Haqqani militant network's #3 was killed by a drone strike in Pakistan last week. Karen DeYoung of the Washington Post reports.
In two incidents in ...
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As promised yesterday, the organizers of the Guantanamo Bay Museum of Art and History have released a longer statement on their project. It reads:
Artists’ Website Project Closes Gitmo and Replaces It W...
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The Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg reports:
The Pentagon war crimes prosecutor on Wednesday revived a Bush-era prosecution and charged a Saudi captive at Guantánamo with a 2002 terror attack on a French ...
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I'm happy to report that I've recently completed drafting an article that has been much on my mind for the past few years. Beyond the Battlefield, Beyond al Qaeda: The Destabilizing Legal Architecture o...
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While you weren’t looking, Guantanamo has been closed—and turned into an art museum! I am writing to the museum staff now for any information they might be willing to provide about this remarkable alter...
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Amnesty International's web site has been hacked by supporters of Syrian President Bashar Assad, reports James Ball of the Washington Post.
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U.S. District Judge John Bates has entered the following order in Maqaleh, the case testing federal court habeas jurisdiction for detainees at Bagram:
MINUTE ORDER: The Court has received 81 petitioners'...
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What follows is the list of speeches by senior officials of the Obama administration, from the President on down and particularly senior lawyers of the national security agencies, addressing national sec...
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Recent Harvard Law School grads William Marra and Sonia McNeil--authors of the first Lawfare Research Paper--have released a short Brookings briefing paper on the regulation of future drones in domestic ...
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Over at the political science blog The Monkey Cage, UNC-Charlotte professor James Igoe Walsh shares some polling research on American views about the use of force. He conducted an online experimental sur...
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Today’s top story is that four Army soldiers based in Georgia allegedly formed an “anarchist militia group. . . that stockpiled assault weapons and plotted a range of anti-government attacks,” including ...
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Just back from vacation I get to catch up on fun stuff that I missed while I was away. At the top of my list is the Tallinn Manual recently released by a distinguished group of NATO experts. The Manual...
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The word from Judge James L. Pohl: the military commission in United States v.
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Last month, I linked to an essay over at Foreign Policy by the mysterious Twitter phenom known as @drunkenpredator.
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News surfaced this morning that the Taliban has beheaded 17 Afghans who were dancing in a mixed-gender setting (two of the victims were women) Sunday evening. Sayed Salahuddin of the Washington Post repo...
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David Remes, who represents several Yemeni clients at Guantanamo Bay, writes in with the following reflections on his latest trip to Guantanamo:
David Remes’ Latest GTMO Adventures
