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Last week, I posted about the national security and personal safety threats posed by Section 11 of the STOCK Act, which would have required senior executive branch officials to post their SF-278 financia...
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Over at the New Yorker blog, Steve Coll has this post on the al-Aulaqi operation, and on related reporting in Dan Klaidman's Kill or Capture.
Coll focuses on capture's infeasibility, one of the condit...
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That's the word from James Connell III, an attorney for 9/11 defendant Ammar al Baluchi, a.k.a. Ali Abdul Aziz Ali. The lawyer's statement is below the fold.
Today, the military commission released an...
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And so it ends, not with a bang but with a whimper. Despite letters from the Director of NSA, General Alexander and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dempsey the motion to close the deb...
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The New York Times At War blog has this fascinating post about how the U.S. was supplying Libya with arms during the pre-Qaddafi years of the Cold War. The post, written by C.J. Chivers and John Ismay, i...
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So reports Lara Jakes at AP, after obtaining a copy of the ruling in which an Iraqi court declined to approve Daqduq's extradition (reasoning that the Iraqi judicial system already had dismissed charges ...
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Published by Knopf (2012)
Reviewed by Sara Aronchick Solow
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The New York Times informs us that Lt. Gen. Zahir ul-Islam, the head of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence directorate, has arrived in Washington D.C. to talk to top American officials including CIA ...
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Over at the Cato Institute's Cato@Liberty blog, Julian Sanchez responds to the recent guest post by former Justice Department official Carrie Cordero on FISA Amendments Act reauthorization. Writes Sanche...
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No, not Latif the Guantanamo habeas case. This Latif is a recent 9th Circuit decision which I had missed until Shirin Sinnar of Stanford Law School sent me the following the other day:
In a little notice...
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That's the word from the Senate -- Majority Leader Harry Reid has filed for cloture to conclude the debate on the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 -- debate that began in earnest earlier today. In addition, he...
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The plaintiffs have filed their reply in support of their request for a permanent injunction in the case of Hedges v. Obama.
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Dan Byman, Director of Research at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings, has a new paper out entitled “Breaking the Bonds between Al Qaeda and its Affiliate Organizations.” The paper, acc...
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As a fellow Arlingtonian and a reasonably tech-savvy person, I join Air Force General Counsel Charles Blanchard in taking issue with the categorization of Arlingtonians by our friends in the Bay Area as ...
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Senator Leahy has an proposed Cybercrime Amendment to S3414 that would, effectively, substantially enhance penalties for cyber crime and impose mandatory minimum sentences. There are plenty of reasons t...
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I just received the following email from Air Force General Counsel Charles A. Blanchard in response to my correspondent from San Francisco, who had hypothesized that West Coast Lawfare readers might be t...
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I just received the following email from a loyal reader in the Bay Area complaining about the manner in which Google Analytics counts readers: I write in the spirit of the age-old outraged reader--th...
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Here’s a fun—and strangely evocative—factoid about Lawfare’s readership. Over this site’s nearly two years of existence, our readership has been heavily concentrated in Washington DC. Seventeen percent...
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Rajiv Chandrasekaran over at the Washington Post has this breaking news on the just-released report by the inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction.
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This weekend, I both posted an excellent guest post from Geoffrey Corn on civilian harm mitigation and wrote a musing post myself about martial arts and LOAC---which offered an excellent excuse to publis...
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