As Raff notes, the Washington Post has an editorial this week drawing attention to the important case of Ali Mussa Daqduq, the Lebanese Hezbollah commander who entered Iraq to participate in the insurgen...

Scott Shane has an important story in the New York Times on the controversy over the number of civilian deaths caused by the CIA's drones program outside of Afghanistan. Shane reports that, The civilian ...

Cybersecurity studies distinguish between a cyber-attack, which alters, degrades, or destroys adversary computer systems or the information in or transiting through those systems, and cyber-expolitation,...

A grand jury yesterday returned an indictment in the case of Naser Abdo, the guy recently arrested in connection with an alleged bomb plot in relation to Killeen (the same guy who shouted “Major Nidal Ha...

During the early months of the Arab Spring phenomenon, there was much discussion of the role that technology played in undermining the capacity of authoritarian regimes to suppress political dissent.  So...

Earlier we posted Ramzi Kassem's criticism of commentary from Ben and Tom Joscelyn concerning the al-Alwi case.  Tom has asked us to share the following response: Ramzi Kassem is bothered by the use of t...

Emerson Begolly pled guilty today, ending what would otherwise likely have been a very interesting First Amendment case involving the constitutionality of charging solicitation based on online incitement...

I was trying to formulate my mixed feelings about the Vance and Doe decisions when I received the following email from a Lawfare reader.

Habeas laywer David Remes writes in with the following thoughts on Ramadan at Guantanamo: In her story on Ramadan fasting in Guantanamo, which you blogged about on August 6, Carol Rosenberg quoted Navy C...

Josh Gerstein at the Politico beat me to the punch with a point I have been meaning to make since looking at the Seventh Circuit's Vance decision yesterday: The viability of civil cases against former of...

Professor Ramzi Kassem of CUNY Law, who serves as counsel for GTMO detainee Moath al-Alwi, takes issue with an earlier post on this blog concerning the al-Alwi case.  He has asked us to share the followi...

Orin Kerr is always worth reading, above all on Fourth Amendment issues.  He has a very interesting piece up tonight on a recent decision by a magistrate judge weighing in on the question of whether the ...

Paul Starobin, whose New York Times piece this weekend was the subject of these earlier thoughts, writes in with the following response: I agree with Benjamin Wittes that there is an important, even a vi...

Only days after a U.S. District Court in Washington allowed to proceed a suit by a U.S. citizen who alleged that he had been detained and tortured by U.S. forces in Iraq, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals...

As you may recall, federal prosecutors in July charged Emerson Begolly with offenses including (i) solicitation based on online posts encouraging readers to attack Americans and (ii) the provision of ins...

U.S. involvement in Mexico's struggle against violent drug-trafficking organizations has deepened recently, according to Ginger Thompson's piece in the New York Times today: When violence spiked last yea...

Paul Starobin has a piece in the New York Times pondering the flip-flop of Harold Koh on war powers: During the Bush administration, he was legendary for his piercing criticisms of “executive muscle flex...