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I am going to take a blogging break over the next 24 hours to confront a profound Thanksgiving challenge: What one feeds vegetarians that is somehow in keeping with the thematic spirit of a dinner whose ...
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I have one thought to add to Bobby's observations yesterday about the legal implications of finishing off the Al Qaeda core in Pakistan. House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon has taken a be...
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Tomorrow you may gorge on turkey, but you're about to go on a four-day news and commentary diet. So here's your fix before the fast.
Let's start with last night's GOP debate on national security, which ...
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Greg Miller of the Washington Post has an important story this morning addressing the possibility that the original al Qaeda network is but a drone strike or two away from eradication:
The leadership ran...
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The Republican presidential candidates debated national security and foreign policy issues last night in Washington. Ritika teed up the debate here with links to the Post’s preview of issues to watch and...
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The eight Republican candidates for president will gather tonight for their trillionth twelfth debate at 8 PM tonight, in an event that will focus on national security and foreign policy.
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More developments in the Jose Pimentel case: The Associated Press reports on how this case ended up in New York state court, rather than as a federal case:
The NYPD’s Intelligence Division had sought to ...
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As readers no doubt are aware, the NYPD has arrested Jose Pimentel on an array of terrorism-related charges. The case is distinctive in that it is not a federal prosecution, which is occasioning some co...
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A thwarted terrorist plot to kick-start your week: the New York Times reports that a Manhattan man by the name of Jose Pimentel, a convert to Islam, was approximately an hour away from completing at leas...
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Having now returned from my undisclosed location, here's a transcript of the Senate floor debate on the NDAA.
The Senate debated the bill on Thursday and Friday. This transcript, helpfully includes only...
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Daphne Eviatar of Human Rights First writes in with the following comments on Latif and the detention provisions of the NDAA:
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Ben wrote last week about the Administration’s threat to veto the Defense Authorization Bill, in large part because of its detainee transfer and related provisions.
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What do you think the chances are that the New York Times editorial folks could have managed to produce this editorial--and without any glaring factual errors--without having read this post and this one ...
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Reviewed by Kenneth Anderson
Noam Lubell, Extraterritorial Use of Force Against Non-State Actors (Oxford 2010)
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Several brewing storms before the weekend:
The controversy over the NDAA continues to generate friction between the administration and Congress. According to the Washington Post and the Politico, Presid...
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Several days ago, the government moved in the D.C. Circuit to challenge the counsel–and thus end the appeal–of Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman Al Bahlul, whose military commission conviction and life sentence is...
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Last week I noted that the United States seeks the extradition of Abdeladim El-Kabir, a man currently held in Germany based on allegations that he was part of an al Qaeda-related cell trained in Pakistan...
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Finally, the administration has spoken clearly, directly, and with direct references to consequences--a veto--about the detainee provisions of the NDAA. The White House's Statement of Administration Poli...
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Sabin Willett, who represented the Guantanamo Uighurs in Parhat and Kiyemba, writes in with the following comments about Latif:
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That's something nobody will ever be able to take away from you.
UPDATE: Too late. Somone beat you to it. That someone--Lawfare's 500th Facebook "Like"--is one Kathryn Cameron Porter, who has Lawfare's ...
