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Lots of developments over the weekend in the case of the American soldier who went on a rampage and killed 16 Afghan civilians. First off, he now has a name--Staff Sgt. Robert Bales--and the New York Tim...
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Peter Margulies of Roger Williams School of Law has this article on proposed amendments to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
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In this episode of the Lawfare Podcast, I sat down with Lawfare's cybersecurity legislative guest blogger, Paul Rosenzweig, and with my Brookings colleague Allan Friedman, to talk about pending pending c...
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An administration official sends in the following in response to Andy Worthington's critique of the DNI's recidivism numbers:
How I wish he were right. But he isn’t.
The DNI numbers usefully distingu...
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British journalist Andy Worthington offers this critique of the recent DNI report on Guantanamo recidivism--and of the press coverage of the report.
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I have three major events in connection with my book this week.
Tonight at 6 p.m., the Harvard Book Store will be hosting an event at the Brattle Theater in Cambridge. Discussants will be Harvard profe...
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The complaint is here. From the press release:
DENVER – Bakhtiyor Jumaev, 45, of Philadelphia, was arrested this morning without incident by members of the Philadelphia FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force (...
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The Federalist Society's upcoming (April 5) national security and law symposium features an array of great speakers, including Ben and Steve. Details below:
2012 National Security Symposium
Internatio...
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In earlier posts I’ve written generally about the information sharing provisions of the Lieberman-Collins cybersecurity bill and the McCain bill. Today I want to begin drilling down in comparing the two...
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I had no idea when I wrote this post last night about ConText that I would awaken this morning to this incredible story by my former colleague David Ignatius about a cache of soon-to-be-released communic...
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In one of my other lives, a project to which I am particularly attached has come to fruition Friday. Called ConText, it has--at least on its face--nothing to do with national security law.
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It's all depressing today, I'm afraid.
Lots of trouble brewing on the Afghanistan front, for starters. The New York Times reports that President Karzai called for U.S.
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Raff already posted earlier about some of the amicus briefs filed today (or earlier) in the al-Bahlul case (the "other" military commission appeal currently pending in the D.C. Circuit).
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The American Civil Liberties Union has filed its opening brief in its appeal of the District Court of the District of Columbia's granting of a motion for summary judgment for the Central Intelligence Age...
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Two new amicus briefs have been filed in Bahlul v. United States in the D.C. Circuit Court recently. The first is a brief on behalf of international law professors (including our own Steve Vladeck). Its ...
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A few months ago, New York University hosted a public debate on targeted killings among three of its prominent faculty members. The discussion, which is now available on video, involved Philip Alston, t...
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On the heels of a meeting between U.S. and Pakistan officials, Pakistan has announced that it will no longer permit the United States to use its airspace for drone attacks. Bloomberg's Indira A.R.
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Cybersecurity maven Dan Geer and former Treasury Department official Brock Dahl write about gaps and excesses in pending cybersecurity legislation:
“For years now, there has been mounting evidence that m...
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Lots of developments in the case of the rogue soldier who massacred 24 Afghan civilians. Leon Panetta arrived in Afghanistan today to quell tensions--and was met with an Afghan national trying to crash a...
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Raffaela linked to this the other day, but I only now just got around to reading it. Lyle Denniston at SCOTUSblog has an interesting piece on the various cert petitions in Guantanamo cases now pending be...
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