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Ben asks an interesting question about the effectiveness of the British independent reviewer. I didn't have a chance to meet Mr.
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Some important stories have surfaced in the past few days.
On Tuesday, the U.S. and Pakistan reached an agreement to reopen the supply lines along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, which have been closed...
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The other day, David Anderson, the U.K.’s Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, dropped by Brookings to talk with me about legislative proposals in Britain for a Closed Material Proceeding in ci...
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For those D.C.-area Lawfarers interested in continuing the conversation Ben, Bobby, and I had in June about Boumediene's legacy (or lack thereof), the Constitution Project is hosting what promises to be ...
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The story of the day is that the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, aka the Dronemaker Club, has released a "Code of Conduct" (the quotation marks are theirs, not added by me to incr...
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A three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit (Judges Tatel, Garland and Griffith) has rejected the CIA's motion to remand in ACLU v.
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Two think tanks -- one from China and one (CSIS) from the US have been conducting a dialogue on cybersecurity over the past several years. This joint release (English at the bottom) summarizes some of t...
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Reviewing the docket in United States v.
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The Wall Street Journal and Ars Technica report on some very intersting results of a FOIA request for information on the "national security letters" that the FBI sends to tech companies to get informatio...
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Last week, Brookings published an interesting paper "A Vision for Homeland Security in the Year 2025," by Darrell West. The paper is the result of a rather large session conducted at Brookings last Nove...
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The Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on a number of informal money-exchange networks in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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I’m not too surprised by the negative reaction provoked by my post over the weekend about my coming drone duel with Alice Beauheim. It was a cheeky, flip post on a very serious subject—as several people ...
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Judge James Pohl has denied two motions to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction in United States v.
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Gabriella Blum has a new essay out entitled, "Invisible Threats." Part of the Emerging Threats series of the Hoover Institution's Koret-Taube Task Force on National Security and Law (of which Jack, Ken, ...
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I have been challenged to a dogfight.
The other day, over lunch, Alice Beauheim--occasional Lawfare book review writer, godmother of the Lawfare license plate, and an employee, if you catch my meaning, ...
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That's the word from The Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg. She also reports that the sworn-but-never-referred military commission charges against Faiz al Kandari, one of two Kuwaitis still held at Guantan...
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From the Blog of the Legal Times, we learn that the ACLU has filed its opposition to the CIA's motion to remand, in the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") appeal now awaiting oral argument before the D.C.
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Lots of healthcare national security news and commentary today.
In developments Bobby discussed yesterday, the Associated Press reports on the new developments in the Al Kidd case—namely, that federal M...
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There has been speculation about the effect of the Obama administration’s pinched detention policy – i.e. no new detainees brought to GTMO, and no new detainees to Parwan (Afghanistan) from outside Afgha...
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