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A very light news day...
The FAA bill that the House passed has now been approved by the Senate as well, reports Keith Laing and Josiah Ryan at The Hill. It is a four-year extension bill, which means no...
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The D.C. Circuit's affirmance of the District Court's judgment in Suleiman v. Obama, which we noted two weeks ago, is available here.
Nothing terribly surprising in the opinion, which was written by Jud...
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Over at Opinio Juris, Kevin Jon Heller responds to my earlier post regarding the BIJ report on drone strikes in Pakistan, and in doing so draws attention to a very interesting question. [Update: see Dap...
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Don't let it ever be said that the D.C. Circuit always rules against detainees. Today, a three-judge panel ruled kept Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman Al Bahlul’s military commission appeal alive--likely against ...
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[Note: a reader responded that I missed the point that an important point about the underlying BIJ report, one that puts the "A Question of Legality" component of the report in a different light.
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In two earlier posts I’ve focused on some of the particular issues that may arise during the Senate’s consideration of a comprehensive cybersecurity bill. The focus on the Senate is apt, inasmuch as Sen...
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In recent months, it has become clear that a surprising number of people are using Lawfare as a research tool. This was most unexpected, and we frankly had never considered research ease when we designed...
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Ben already noted the report released over the weekend by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism regarding CIA drone strikes that have allegedly targeted rescuers responding to the scene of earlier strik...
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Brian Jenkins of RAND sharply criticizes the NDAA's detention provisions in this short piece at Foreign Affairs.
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Paul Stephan, the John C. Jeffries, Jr.
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The report to which I linked earlier has several pieces accompanying it.
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The London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism has reported before on civilian casualties in drone strikes, but this new report has a twist: It is alleging that "The CIA’s drone campaign in Pakistan...
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Russia and China today vetoed a proposed UNSC Resolution (stories here and here) that would have condemned the abuses in Syria, demanded their cessation, required Syria to give free rein to League of Ara...
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Interesting story in Foreign Policy by Aaron Zelin of the Jihadology blog reporting that Abu Musab al-Suri, the theoretician of leaderless jihad, may have been freed from prison in Syria. Al-Suri is the ...
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Memo to any and all D.C. Circuit judges.
Please note in Steve's post earlier about the Fourth Circuit's Al Shimari argument the second bullet-pointed sentence: "The (long) oral argument audio is availab...
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The AP covers breaking news that the hacker group Anonymous intercepted and leaked a January conference call between the FBI and Scotland Yard regarding the tracking and prosecution of members of the gr...
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I wasn't able to attend last Friday's oral argument before the en banc Fourth Circuit in the Abu Ghraib contractor suits (about which we've said quite a bit previously).
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Cori Crider of the British human rights group Reprieve stopped by my office yesterday to talk about her client, Yunus Rahmatullah--about whom Bobby has written and who is suddenly the subject of a very d...
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The Washington Post and the New York Times both report that the U.S will end combat operations in Afghanistan by mid-2013, more than a year earlier than scheduled.
But beware of this brewing storm in th...
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British journalist William Shawcross's new book on Nuremberg and the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Justice and the Enemy, continues to receive a great deal of attention (See Jack's review here and Wel...
