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I share Bobby's skepticism "that the public actually is primed to explode with anger" should the Obama administration notify Congress that it intends to send high-level Taliban detainees now at Guantanam...
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Nobody in Washington ever got rich making predictions about the political process. Nevertheless, I will go out on a limb and predict that at some point in the coming debate over the Senate cybersecurity...
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From Reuters:
One Republican lawmaker said public opposition would escalate sharply if and when the administration formally notified Congress it intends to transfer the prisoners, who come from the highe...
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The government has filed its answer to Mustafa Ahmed Al Hawsawi's petition for a writ of mandamus concerning monitoring of attorney-client communications at Guantanamo. Al Hawsawi's motion for a prelimin...
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Whoops! Yesterday, reporters questioned White House spokesman Jay Carney about the administration's use of drones following President Obama's epic Google+ hangout.
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The US government is considering transferring a group of five Taliban detainees from GTMO to Qatar (to be held there by Qatari authorities) in furtherance of peace negotiations in relation to Afghanistan...
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The Nashiri defense has filed a motion to depose Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who arrived recently in the United States for medical treatment. The motion is not yet public, but its title appears ...
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Published by Henry Holt/Times Books (2011)
Reviewed by Samuel Rascoff
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Soon, Senator Harry Reid promises to bring a comprehensive cybersecurity bill before the Senate for consideration. The base draft bill to be considered remains shrouded in secrecy, the subject of urgent...
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Today's top story is the President's maybe-a-little-too candid remarks on the CIA's drone program, as Ben discussed here.
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I'm pleased to announce that Paul Rosenzweig will be guest blogging for Lawfare while Congress considers the cybersecurity legislation that is now headed for the Senate floor. Paul has a great deal of ex...
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Riddle me this: At what point does official acknowledgment of a covert action become so strong that it can no longer be justified as a covert action--which is statutorily defined as action in which the r...
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Drone strikes in Yemen raise important questions regarding the field of application of International Humanitarian Law (IHL), the extraterritorial applicability of International Human Rights Law (IHRL), a...
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So amidst all of the gridlock in Congress and the presidential campaigning, there is actually a pretty good chance that Congress might get something significant and forward-looking done this year. The is...
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Well, that didn't take long. The government only submitted its opposition to Fayiz Mohammed Ahmed Al Kandari's petition for en banc review on January 19. But the D.C. Circuit today denied the petition. A...
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As Ben mentioned, we're still waiting for iTunes to approve the Lawfare Podcast. Even before approval, however, you can subscribe to it through iTunes by following these simple steps:
Open iTunes.
Go ...
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Eric Schmitt and Michael Schmidt write in the New York Times that the drones keeping watch in Iraq are less than welcome these days, despite their being operated by the State Department, not the military...
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It is a great pleasure to announce the first episode of the Lawfare Podcast:
The Lawfare Podcast quite literally speaks for itself, so I won't spend a lot of time introducing it. Like a lot of...
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[The following guest post, from Geoff Corn (South Texas College of Law), extends the discussion of the Gotovina decision from Laurie Blanks's guest post yesterday]
On April 15, 2011, the Internatio...
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[This is the first of two posts concerning the ICTY's Gotovina decision (the ICTY summary of which appears here, and two volumes of trial documents are available here]
Professor Laurie Blank, Director o...
