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For our D.C.-area readers, AU's student-run National Security Law Brief is hosting its annual symposium this Thursday here at the Washington College of Law.
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Trevor Morrison of Columbia Law School writes in with the following response to my earlier post about Raha Wala's use of the word "government." His point is quite correct; my phraseology, about which he ...
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More information has emerged about Osama bin Laden's other residences in Pakistan, including another safe house he lived in while he was on the run, reports the Associated Press. Meanwhile, Secretary of ...
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Ritika and I have received many thoughtful responses to our post the other day about the War of 1812, James Madison, executive power, and civil liberties. The most eye-opening--to me, at least--was a not...
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In his reply to Jack, Raha Wala of Human Rights Watch concludes: "I think the big question is why, as a matter of policy, the government continues to insist on using untested military commissions for int...
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Below Raha Wala of Human Rights First responds to my to my post on mission creep in NGO demands concerning military commissions. I think that a comparison of these complaints and concerns with the 2002 ...
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Courtesy of Tom Malinowski, who announced today that he is leaving Human Rights Watch. Writes Malinowski, after describing the joy he saw in Libya, traveling there after Qadaffi's fall:
And then it came ...
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The Onion has the story:
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Anyone know of any good national security April Fools Day pranks?
I was trying to think of one this morning, but I came up pretty dry. National security seems like particularly dangerous territory in wh...
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As Ben
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The Brookings Institution is holding a Lawfare-heavy event next week that is sure to pique the interest of our readers: The Impact of Domestic Drones on Privacy, Safety and National Security. Ben, Paul, ...
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My confreres at Opinio Juris tell me that Harold Koh, Legal Adviser to the State Department, has given OJ the text of his address on Syria at the on-going annual meetings of the American Society of Inter...
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John Rizzo, formerly acting General Counsel to the CIA (and now a visiting fellow of the Hoover Institution, where he is working on a memoir) has a short piece on the practicalities of the reporting regi...
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The New York Times has an interesting story today about a police report summarizing interviews of Amal Ahmad Abdul Fateh, one of Osama Bin Laden's wives, who was living with him in the Abbottabad compoun...
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Headlines and Commentary took a vacation yesterday to focus on the Supreme Court's health care oral arguments and, of course, the War of 1812. I'm sure you were doing the same.
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Will Polish judges have the occasion to weigh in on the legality of non-criminal detention of asserted al Qaeda members? Probably so. It appears that Polish prosecutors have brought charges against the...
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In case you didn't already know this with all of the attention it's getting, this year is the 200th anniversary of the beginning of the War of 1812. Our Brookings colleague, Pietro Nivola, and our friend...
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The 28-page opinion in United States v. Stone, (E.D. Mich. Mar.
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It's not every day that one of Ritika's Moments of Zen files a lawsuit.
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Amanda Jacobsen, a lawyer for Abu Zubaydah, has this oped in the Washington Post complaining that her client--and the government officials responsible for his detention and interrogation--have never face...
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