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This event, which I just added to the Lawfare Events Calendar, looks interesting:
The Georgetown Center on National Security and the Law
and the
National Security Law Society
Cordially invite you to a b...
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Shane Harris at Washingtonian has this review of ex-Navy SEAL Matt Bissonette's book on the Osama bin Laden raid. It begins: “Let me be clear, I do not consider this to be my story,” writes retired N...
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Lots of coverage of the drone-tracking app that Apple blocked on its App Store.
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Last fall, a panel of the Ninth Circuit issued a sweeping decision in the long-running Alien Tort Statute suit against Rio Tinto rejecting Rio Tinto’s defenses on nearly every issue and prompting dissent...
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Those who recall my earlier, premature, sharing of the Tallin Manual will be pleased to learn that an authorized version is now available online and I am happy to provide this link to it with the permiss...
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The Lawfare Drone Smackdown has grown, preparations have continued at a feverish pace, and with growth and practical experience, we have found that our LOAC of drone combat has become impractical and nee...
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So in the cyber domain we often talk about the need for a “Public-Private-Partnership” or a PPP to share information about cyber threats and vulnerabilities. These PPPs are sometimes criticized as ine...
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Yes, Lawfare is two years old today.
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Earlier this week, Judge Rosemary Collyer rejected a proposed modification to protective orders entered in Mohammed al Qahtani's habeas case. Al Qahtani's lawyers had asked the judge to change the order...
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Ben earlier noted an order, in which Judge John Bates instructed petitioners in Al Maqleh v. Obama to file, by no later than today, a "short summary, not to exceed two pages," of any newly discovered fac...
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Back in July, I noted that the Electronic Privacy and Information Center had petitioned the D.C.
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Lots going on before the long weekend.
Lets begin with more coverage of the “squealing SEAL”---aka Mark Owen aka Matt Bissonnette.
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Last night and this morning, I did a little tinkering with Lawfare's social networking features--which actually drive a good deal of traffic to the site. According to Google Analytics, Facebook is far an...
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Some detainee treatment news here: Attorney General Eric Holder today announced the end of a criminal investigation into the deaths of two detainees while in U.S. custody.
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Earlier today, Judge Rosemary Collyer rejected an attempt by attorneys for detainee Mohammed al Qahtani to modify two protective orders entered in al Qahtani's habeas case.
The proposed modification con...
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The Obama administration confirmed yesterday that the Haqqani militant network's #3 was killed by a drone strike in Pakistan last week. Karen DeYoung of the Washington Post reports.
In two incidents in ...
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As promised yesterday, the organizers of the Guantanamo Bay Museum of Art and History have released a longer statement on their project. It reads:
Artists’ Website Project Closes Gitmo and Replaces It W...
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The Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg reports:
The Pentagon war crimes prosecutor on Wednesday revived a Bush-era prosecution and charged a Saudi captive at Guantánamo with a 2002 terror attack on a French ...
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I'm happy to report that I've recently completed drafting an article that has been much on my mind for the past few years. Beyond the Battlefield, Beyond al Qaeda: The Destabilizing Legal Architecture o...
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While you weren’t looking, Guantanamo has been closed—and turned into an art museum! I am writing to the museum staff now for any information they might be willing to provide about this remarkable alter...
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