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Earlier this month, the Federalist Society held a symposium on national security in Washington at the D.C. office of Jones Day.
Video from the sessions is now available.
Here is panel #1--on detention,...
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... El Salvador. [I've just changed the title to reflect the fact that other Uighur detainees still remain at GTMO]. From DOD's press release:
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
No. 291-12
April 19, 2012
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Toomas Hendrik Ilves is the President of Estonia, a small nation (population about 1.3 million) and also one of the most wired and digitally advanced nations in the world. Ilves was President of Estonia...
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Over the past several weeks, I’ve written a number of blogs about the substance of the cybersecurity bills pending before Congress. As the House moves to consider cyber legislation next week and as the ...
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Greg Miller at the Washington Post reports on the CIA's efforts to expand its drone campaign in Yemen. The agency requests that it be permitted to strike based solely on intelligence indicating suspiciou...
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Several readers have made the good suggestion of creating a list of the "formal" or even (arguably, meaning in the opinion of the Readings Editor) "canonical" statements of the Obama administration regar...
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Lots of Najibullah Zazi news for your reading pleasure today. The New York Times reports that Zazi testified at the trial of his alleged co-conspirator Adis Medunjanin, who helped him come up with the pl...
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Was it clearly established in 2006-07 that GTMO detainees were entitled to the protections of the Fifth Amendment? A district judge in Washington State thinks so, adding that it was clearly established ...
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How should we understand CIA General Counsel Stephen Preston's speech at Harvard Law School the other day? It is not, like earlier speeches by senior administration lawyers and counterterrorism officials...
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The Supreme Court just released -- only seven weeks after oral argument -- its decision in Mohamad v.
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The government has filed its response to Abdulrahman Abdou Abou Al Ghaith Suleiman's petition for rehearing en banc in the D.C. Circuit.
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The House Homeland Security Committee has now released its own updated version of a cybersecurity bill. The text is (Lungren Substitute April 2012). This bill stands in pretty significant contrast to ...
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We now have a collection of speeches from the past two years by the Obama administration's top lawyers in the national security agencies and departments on targeted killing and (hypothetically speaking) ...
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It was such a beautiful day here yesterday in Washington that Headlines and Commentary took the day off.
Lots of debate on the cybersecurity legislation, but luckily The Hill is all over this one: on Fr...
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A judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Washington in Seattle has dismissed a Bivens action by a former Guantanamo detainee against former Defense Secretary Bob Gates. Adel Hassan Hamad is...
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My old colleague Daniel Klaidman from days of yore at Legal Times writes in with a guest post on CIA General Counsel Stephen Preston's speech at Harvard Law School.
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We are delighted to announce three important new voices joining Lawfare's cadre of senior contributors.
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Today the Supreme Court issued cert. determinations in two of the several Guantanamo-related petitions that have been filed this term. The Court denied both petitions, declining to hear either Abdah v.
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Rumor has it that sometime this week (perhaps as early as tomorrow), Congressmen Scott Rigell (R-VA) and Jeff Landry (R-LA) will introduce a bill titled the "Right to Habeas Corpus Act." In short, the bi...
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Sometimes my friends ask me "how bad is it really?" How bad is the cyber threat? It's hard to answer that question -- and its even harder when the experts can't reach a consensus. It would be almost i...
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