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As Raffaela has already noted, the European Court of Human Rights unanimously ruled this morning that Abu Hamza al-Masri and four other wanted terrorism suspects may be extradited from the United Kingdom...
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CIA General Counsel Stephen is giving the following remarks today at Harvard Law School:
Remarks of
The Honorable Stephen W. Preston
General Counsel
Central Intelligence Agency
Harvard Law School
Cambri...
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The European Court of Human Rights ruled today that Britain may deport five terrorist suspects (including Abu Hamza al-Masri, the former preacher) who are wanted in the U.S. consistent with human rights ...
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One motion to keep an eye on during the upcoming commission session in United States v. Al-Nashiri: the defense’s request for the Commission to order Guantanamo officials to permit Al-Nashiri to meet wit...
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Judging by the docket, we are in for a lengthy motions hearing starting tomorrow morning in United States v. Abd al-Rahim Hussein Mohammed Abdu Al-Nashiri — the capital military commission case alleging ...
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The rise of new technologies such as drones, enabling more discrete surveillance and uses of force, is one factor prompting new interest in covert action (used in a colloquial sense).
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For more than a decade, the United States has asserted authority to detain without criminal charge in Afghanistan under color of the law of armed conflct (LOAC). Because for the bulk of this period that...
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In this episode of the Lawfare Podcast, Bobby Chesney sits down with Brigadier General Rich Gross, the Legal Advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for a detailed discussion of the nature ...
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The Afghanistan International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) reports that Gen. John R.
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The top news from the weekend is that the U.S. and Afghanistan have reached an agreement on night raids. The agreement requires all "special operations" to be reviewed by a panel composed of Afghan gover...
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I could pick factual nits with today's New York Times editorial on the referral of charges in the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed case. If I were in that sort of mood, I'd start with the first sentence, which rea...
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Peter Margulies responds to Jameel Jaffer’s response:
I appreciate Jameel’s response to my earlier post, as I appreciate the work that he and the ACLU have done in promoting transparency. However, Jamee...
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The ACLU’s Jameel Jaffer responds to Peter Margulies' post yesterday on “moving the goal posts”:
Peter is mistaken. We filed that suit because we thought the photos would help the public understand what...
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I'm pleased to announce that we have now added an Upcoming Events Calendar to Lawfare. In recent months, a great many organizations, individuals, and groups have asked us to post announcements on the blo...
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Congratulations to the Harvard National Security Journal for a fruitful conference yesterday on the covert action and the law. It was an intensive seminar all day long on the domestic and international ...
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Every spring I am eager to endorse the National Security Law Institute, which this year will convene for the 20th straight year under the auspices of John Norton Moore and Bob Turner’s Center for Nationa...
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Peter Margulies writes in with this response to my request for examples of NGOs moving the goalposts in their demands about counterterrorism legal policy.
Administration critics “moved the goal posts” in...
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Back in March, the Convening Authority dismissed the charges against Guantanamo detainee Tarek Mahmoud El Sawah of conspiracy to commit acts attacking civilians, attacking civilian objects, murder in vio...
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Let's begin with Guantanamo Bay news.
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Following up on his post yesterday on secret evidence in civil cases in Britain, Hugo Rosemont writes in this morning with a brief update:
In other recent developments....
i. The Secretary of State fo...
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