There's been a fair amount of media and blog attention to the proposed new rules governing (and substantially widening) the government's access to communications between military commission defendants an...

Published by Penguin Press (2011) Reviewed by Benjamin Wittes

Fayiz Mohammed Ahmed Al-Kandari has filed a petition for rehearing en banc with the D.C. Circuit Court in his case against the U.S. His singular question is whether the Federal Rules of Evidence apply to...

I'm taking a break from de-ornamenting my Christmas tree (or, more accurately, spreading an astonishing number of dried-out pine needles around my living room) to draw attention to this very interesting ...

A dispatch from the Lawfare North Pole: the White House seems to be using more aggressive language, in opposing Congress’s recent efforts to limit the executive branch’s authority over detainee affairs. ...

On Thursday, Judge Richard Leon of the U.S. District Court in D.C. issued a little-noticed decision granting dismissal in Al Janko v. Gates. The case is noteworthy, however, because Al Janko–unlike other...

In September, a team of Dutch virologists announced that they had created a strain of the avian influenza (H5N1) that, at least in lab animals, was as contagious as the seasonal flu.

Cully Stimson of the Heritage Foundation, who served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs between 2006 and 2007, writes in with the following thoughtful essay about the Daqduq ca...

Stephen Voss, a philosophy professor at Bogazici University in Istanbul, writes in with the following response to Bobby's and my NDAA FAQ: The current NDAA contains, in section 1021, legislation that may...

David Glazier (Loyola Los Angeles) writes in with the following guest post in response to my earlier musings on the distribution of blame for the outcome in the Ali Musa Daqduq case: I think the analysis...

Joanne Mariner of Hunter College's Human Rights Program, writing at Justicia.com, has this lengthy analysis of the NDAA from a human rights and civil liberties point of view. It is the first half of a tw...

...this one from The Onion is not quite up to their usual standards, but it has a few smiles in it.

It's hard to believe this video made it through the vetting process over at Amnesty International. My first instinct was that it had to be a group of high school students parodying an Amnesty Internation...

...comes Justice and the Enemy: Nuremberg, 9/11, and the Trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, by William Shawcross.

Counsel for Guantanamo habeas petitioners Uthman, Almerfedi, and Latif--all of whom have cert petitions pending or imminent--have asked the Supreme Court to hold off on deciding whether to grant until th...

A jury has returned a guilty verdict against Tarek Mehanna, in a case that raises questions about the scope of criminal liability for online activities promoting violence.  The case raises very interesti...