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I have spent a lot of time publishing other people's statements on the death of Adnan Latif over the past couple of days and have refrained from expressing my own views---in part because I have been gath...
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I will offer my own thoughts on the death of Adnan Latif later on, but several people have sent me comments on the subject that I am going to post first. Rather than do this in a string posts, I’m going ...
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I haven't read it yet, but here it is.
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A drone has gone missing in Washington. No, not a Predator or a Reaper—and not one of the drones that is gearing up for the Lawfare Drone Smackdown. And no, not @drunkenpredator on his latest binge. It’s...
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As everyone knows by now, the American ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stevens, was killed in Benghazi in a rocket attack on the consulate there---apparently over a controversial internet video mocki...
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For those of you—and there are surely lots—who have been wondering what the prize for the Lawfare Drone Smackdown will be, Alice Beauheim has designed the following chalice of victory.
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The legal team for Adnan Latif, the detainee who died at Guantanamo over the weekend, has issued this statement:
STATEMENT OF LAWYERS REPRESENTING ADNAN FARHAN ABDUL LATIF
September 11, 2012
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The Defense Science Board recently issued a new study on The Role of Autonomy in DoD Systems. Spencer Ackerman has a good story summarizing and explaining its conclusions:
The Pentagon’s science adviser...
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At least, that’s what I’m hearing. Yes, this is the same Latif whose case riled the D.C. Circuit and has caused much discussion on this site. This is going to be a big deal. Stay tuned. UPDATE: Here is S...
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The Constitution Project today released a new report titled Recommendations for Fusion Centers: Preserving Privacy & Civil Liberties While Protecting Against Crime & Terrorism. In the wake of the 9/11 a...
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Another year has passed, so lets start with a selection of 9/11-anniversary coverage:
Delays in completing the National September 11 Memorial & Museum have flowed from what the AP is calling a "funding ...
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One of the fun things about having a book review is that occasionally, publishers send me books that---for whatever unfathomable reason---they think Lawfare might want to write about. We’ve had some stif...
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“How the hell can we run sensitive operations here that go after enemies if people are allowed to do that?,” asked Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, on CBS, in response to the revelations about the Bin ...
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Tom Ricks has an uncharacteristically uninformed post about the No Easy Day kerfuffle, in which he claims that it “would be a bad thing if people came to expect some sort of right of the military to revi...
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Here’s Reuters on the story. Here’s Josh Gerstein in Politico.
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A suicide bombing in Kabul outside of NATO HQ killed eight civilians. Afghan police say that the bomber was only 14 years old.
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As most readers of Lawfare are aware, we have a strict no comments policy on this blog. I have publicly defended this policy against criticism, promised it would never change, and have even made a video ...
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Here’s a challenge: Can either President Obama or any member of Congress explain why it makes good sense to require 28,000 senior executive officials to post their financial disclosure forms (containing...
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Tom Malinowski of Human Rights Watch writes in with the following comments in response to my recent post on Human Rights Watch's new allegations of water boarding by the CIA:I’m shocked that you’re shock...
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Details available from Skating on Stilts -- HT: Stewart Baker. I'll have some analysis and thoughts later this weekend.
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