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Let’s begin with drones. As Matt noted last week, The Hill reports that the International Association of Chiefs of Police released guidelines for the use of domestic drones. Read the recommendations here.
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As Ben noted, this week and next will see one whopper of a hearing in the 9/11 case - two, really, the first spanning August 22-24 and the second August 26-28.
Apropos, Judge James Pohl recently amended...
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Hold onto your chairs. The motions hearing in the 9/11 military commissions case scheduled to begin on Wednesday promises to be a monster. The latest version of the docketing order is not yet public. The...
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Thanks to all who asked to be counted as regular Lawfare readers. The results of this tiny little survey have been helpful and illuminating--though they are admittedly somewhat tentative. Because I put t...
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Here’s your read-out on this morning’s oral argument, before Chief Judge Royce Lamberth, in what Lawfarers have come to know as the Guantanamo counsel access dispute. (Background can be found here, here...
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Two big news items about the battle over access to counsel at Guantanamo Bay that is currently taking place in the D.C. District Court.
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The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Governing Body this week approved Recommended Guidelines for the Use of Unmanned Aircraft (downloadable here) by American law enforcement agencies...
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Carrie Cordero, Georgetown’s Director of National Security Studies and a former Justice Department official, writes in with the following ruminations concerning lone wolf terrorist offenders:
No one real...
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The top story today is the news that 7 American troops were killed in Afghanistan when a Black Hawk helicopter crashed. The Taliban is claiming responsibility for downing the helicopter.
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David Remes, an attorney for Guantanamo habeas petitioners Uthman and Esmail, has sent in this overview of the ongoing Guantanamo counsel access dispute.
In brief: Remes and others recently objected to ...
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In an earlier post, here, I described an article I was working on, with my colleague Sam Issacharoff, on detention, targeted killings, and the fundamental transformation we see taking place in the practi...
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For readers following closely the issue of possible military strikes (Israeli or U.S.) against Iran’s nuclear facilities, I recommend reading Jeffrey Lewis’s analysis at foreignpolicy.com of the U.S. int...
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Guess what? They're still illegal outside of Afghanistan:
Targeted killing with drones in Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan have generally violated the right to life because the United States is rarely part o...
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For those who have been wondering--even a little bit--about the technology behind the Lawfare Drone Smackdown, Gizmodo UK has this handy review of the Parrot AR 2.0 drone, which is the robotic base off o...
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Let's talk about something other than Israel potentially attacking Iran, shall we?
Manhattan district attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. "announced plans for the construction of a cybercrime lab, which will ce...
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In response to my inquiry about drones that could capture rather than kill ("Robot Rendition?"), Greg McNeal writes in with these very illuminating comments on the technological prospects.
It probably g...
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Lawfare readers will recall that in March the Supreme Court ordered the case of Kiobel v Royal Dutch Petroleum to be re-briefed and reargued to address the additional question of whether the Alien Tort S...
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This news -- that Iran is considering a lawsuit over Stuxnet -- is too perfect for words. Lawfare readers will have a field day: In what court? Under what theory? With what damages? How will they...
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This just in: the last words (for a few days, anyway) in the Guantanamo attorney-client access dispute now pending before Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S.
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The Hill's Carlo Munoz tells us that a Somali-born pirate will serve 12 life sentences in connection with the kidnapping, piracy, hostage-taking and murder of Americans last February off the coast of Oma...
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