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There's barely a true fact in it, but it's very funny:
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First things first: Welcome aboard, Steve! Now, to business:
This afternoon, the National Security Council the "Strategic Implementation Plan for Empowering Local Partners to Prevent Violent Extremism ...
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Thanks to Ben for the warm introduction, and to the entire Lawfare crew for letting me crash the party. I thought I'd jump into the fray on a bit of a tangent, albeit one that both directly and indirectl...
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I'm delighted to announce that Stephen Vladeck of American University's Washington College of Law is joining Lawfare as a senior contributor. Many readers already know Steve's work, as he is one of the ...
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Ritika's Moment of Zen today gives rise to a Moment of Envy for me. I thought my trading card and being named "The Worst Possible Person in the World" were cool. But being named in an Anonymous video is ...
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The Politico reports that the army has disciplined 15 people over the WikiLeaks scandal, and at least one officer "was reduced in rank for dereliction of duty" after an "internal investigation into the d...
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Yesterday, a Fifth Circuit panel (King, joined by Garza and Graves) affirmed the convictions of the individual defendants in the Holy Land Foundation ("HLF") case and also dismissed the appeal lodged by ...
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Both of these upcoming Brookings events may interest Lawfare readers:
Hacktivism, Vigilantism and Collective Action in a Digital Age
Friday, December 09, 2011
10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Radical online a...
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The following is a continuation of our side-by-side comparison of the House and Senate versions of the NDAA:
Prohibition of Detainee Transfer to the United States
The House version of the bill (Section 1...
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Today is the 70th anniversary of the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor. Read historian Ian Toll's New York Times op-ed on the "date which will live in infamy."
With the conference committee trying to fin...
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[UPDATE (12/9/11): See here for my updated assessment as to US citizens captured abroad.]
On the day that the Senate passed its version of the NDAA, I wrote a post in the morning addressing whether the ...
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As the House of Representatives and the Senate head to conference on the NDAA, I thought it might be useful to analyze the similarities and differences between the counterterrorism provisions of the two ...
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With many thanks to Alice Beauheim, it is an idea whose time has surely come.
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A redacted version of the cert petition in the case of Hussain Salem Mohammed Almerfedi is now public.
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We are grateful to Katie Bacon and the rest of the crew at the Harvard Law Bulletin for this very nice piece discussing the HLS-Brookings Project on Law and Security as well as Lawfare, and to Dean Minow...
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Matt Waxman (who served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs from 2004 to 2005) and I have written a short article for the Council on Foreign Relations expressing concern about t...
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Lots of NDAA developments to kick start your week.
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A brief update for sports fans who follow the fierce international competition of, uh, Lawfare readership: Pakistan's brief stint on the medal podium in this admittedly obscure sport seems to have come t...
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