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Let's begin with news of released terrorists.
The Miami Herald reports, as does Bobby, that Ibrahim al Qosi--Osama bin Laden's occasional driver and self-confessed Al Qaeda operative--was repatriated to...
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I received the following email from human rights lawyer David Remes about a filing he and his colleagues just made on Monday on behalf of his Guantanamo client Yasein Khasem Mohammad Esmail. Esmail lost ...
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Now here is a rare sight…a transfer out of GTMO, in this case made possible by the individual’s completion of his plea-based military commission sentence. From DOD’s press release:
Detainee Transfer Ann...
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The #2 most read story on the Washington Post's website is this gem on an April crash in Mali that killed three U.S. Special Ops soldiers and three Moroccan women.
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According to various media reports, General Stanley McChrystal suggested late last month that the United States should bring back the draft if it goes to war again, arguing that the costs of the wars in ...
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Speaking of national security issues that seemed to have dropped off of the public’s radar screen, this headline beckons the reader to an article in The Atlantic, written by Andrew Cohen and posted over ...
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Here's an interesting window into the declining salience of national security legal issues in American public life and discourse: The New York Times has a Room for Debate discussion going on right now en...
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I didn't get to attend this event today, as I am on the road, but NSA chief Gen. Keith Alexander spoke today at the American Enterprise Institute as part of this event. The video is available at CSPAN, b...
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Geoffrey Corn, professor of law at South Texas College of Law and former JAG officer and chief of the law of war branch of the international law division of the US Army, sends in the following comment on...
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Let's begin with some cheery news that will surely brighten your Monday: The Associated Press reports that Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has been "neutralized" in Algeria. Experts say it no longer pose...
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Mark Mazzetti is a fine reporter at the New York Times and I follow his work closely on the front pages, but reading his new piece in the Sunday New York Times Magazine this week, "The Drone Zone," it se...
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I don't have a lot of patience for the endless grumbling about the heat in Washington (Yes, it's hot. Now can we talk about something interesting?), but this story--and this picture--captures something.
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The Globe and Mail has a review of two new books about the Omar Khadr case. Reviewer Terry Glavin isn't crazy about either of them, objecting to one from the Left and the other from the Right.
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Two short items involving drug cartel violence in Mexico and the related issue of US cooperation with Mexican authorities in counter-cartel efforts.
First, as readers presumably know, Mexico has just el...
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The government has filed its opposition brief in United States v.
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This month of July sees negotiations at the UN in New York on a proposed arms trade treaty. Duncan Hollis at Opinio Juris has an excellent introduction with many links.
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Mark Mazzetti has a feature in the forthcoming issue of the New York Times magazine about drones and the evolving role of the Air Force.
The Washington Post reports that Saudia Arabia is coming around!
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I have received a number of interesting responses to my post yesterday about the British institution of the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation. Clive Walker of the University of Leeds School o...
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Some time ago I began an answer to Jack Goldsmith on why I thought cybersecurity regulation was the wrong answer to our current cyber problems. Other commitments, including paying clients!, got in the w...
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Next Wednesday at 10 a.m. in 2141 Rayburn House Office Building, the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security of the House Judiciary Committee will be holding a hearing on "National Securi...
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