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Judge Pohl's docketing order, in which he adjusts the calendar in United States v. Mohammed et al. and announces the agenda for August's motions hearing, is now available.
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Following last week's motions hearing in Maqaleh and Hamidullah, the cases seeking habeas jurisdiction over the detention facility at Bagram, the petitioners in Maqaleh have filed a supplemental brief ar...
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The government has filed its brief in opposition to the plantiffs' motion for a permanent injunction--and seeking dismissal of the case.
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This Friday, I'll be joining Benjamin Powell from WilmerHale (and formerly, inter alia, the General Counsel of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence) for a Federalist Society teleforum on C...
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The Washington Post has more on who was behind the deadly attacks in Iraq and what they mean for country's stability.
Reuters reports that five female detainees linked to Al Qaeda have been released by ...
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Senate Majority Leader Reid spoke on the Senate floor earlier today explaining why the Senate needed to consider cybersecurity legislation as an urgent matter and, in particular, why he would prioritize ...
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I will soon be posting on SSRN, with my co-author Sam Issacharoff, a draft academic article that offers a broad, integrated conceptual and legal framework for understanding specific counterterrorism lega...
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Judge James Pohl has tweaked the calendar in United States v.
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Today, Australia's government formally abandoned its lawsuit to prevent David Hicks---the first defendant ever to plead guilty to military commission charges---from profiting from the sale of his book, G...
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The other day, Wells drew my attention to what could be the single most excellently eccentric national security-oriented project currently ongoing on the web: It is called Clausewitz for Kids. I am appar...
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By now you've pored over last week's complaint in Al-Aulaqi et al v.
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As we have all noted, Senators Lieberman and Collins have proposed a revised version of their cybersecurity legislation. They've touted it as a compromise bill that moves closer to the middle and addres...
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Over at the ACSblog, I have a guest post up on Al-Aulaqi v. Panetta and Ben's suspicion that the lawsuit will go the way of Arar, Lebron, Doe, and Rasul--with courts holding that there should be no Biven...
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Yasir Ghazi and Rob Nordland of the New York Times tell us that today was the bloodiest day all year in Iraq, with 37 coordinated attacks killing at least 97 people and injuring more than 300.
For all t...
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Former Secretary of DHS, Michael Chertoff has this op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today, concerning Google's subversion of Safari's security settings. Here's the introduction:
In the cyber age, privac...
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I'm just going to link to it. There's some rhetoric I wouldn't use in here, but--as I said before and as Steve explained here--this is a provocative step the government has taken, and it shouldn't do thi...
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Professor Kent Roach, the Prichard Wilson Chair in Law and Public Policy at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, has written a new book, The 9/11 Effect: Comparative Counter-Terrorism, which came ou...
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Over at Foreign Policy, the mysterious author of the @drunkenpredator Twitter feed has an essay that begins:
Every morning, the hangar doors roll open and the sunlight flares my electro-optical sensors. ...
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As I noted on Friday, Senators Lieberman and Collins have released a Manager’s Amendment in the form of a substitute which reflects some significant changes to their original bill. You can access the fu...
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Laurie Blank, professor at Emory Law School and director of its International Humanitarian Law Clinic, gives Lawfare the last in the series of guest comments on Mark Mazzetti's New York Times Magazine ar...
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