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It's not quite a trading card, which remains the high point, but an award for being "The Worst Possible Person in the World" comes pretty close.
Turns out that DOJ, in a footnote in a brief before the D...
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Wells rightly points out the ridiculousness of the various House committee chairs yesterday demanding that President Obama follow the terms of unenacted legislation.
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Bad day for Taliban cybersecurity. The Taliban is denying that their leader, Mullah Muhammad Omar is dead, following emails to that effect from the group and a notice on a Taliban web site. The group con...
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Earlier today, Raffaela noted a letter, sent by the Chairs of various House Committees to the President, regarding the latter’s approach to the Warsame case. Unsurprisingly, the letter critiqued the Adm...
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Over at the Weekly Standard, Thomas Joscelyn has a response to Bobby and my earlier response to his response to our responses (here and here) to his piece on Matthew Olsen.
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Several House committee chairs have sent this letter regarding the Warsame case to President Obama.
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A new Congressional Research Service report reviews provisions in the competing versions of the National Defense Authorization Act regarding detainee affairs. Here is a summary of the report's findings:
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This is Lawfare's 1,000th post. It takes place during our 11th month of operation. During the blog's brief life, it has gone from non-existence to a site which has averaged more than 1,700 visits daily o...
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Senator John McCain wants a new Congressional panel created to deal with cybersecurity. Ben Pershing at the Post discusses McCain's proposal sent to Senate leaders last week.
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United States v. Mohamed (D.Minn. July 18, 2011) is the latest in a series of convictions federal prosecutors have obtained in response to the recruitment of young Somali-American men in the Minneapolis ...
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A quick thought in response to the very interesting exchange underway between Ben and Kevin (the most recent contribution to it is here). In an update to an earlier post, Kevin writes:
Ben is quite righ...
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Don Fassler and Vahid Brown at West Point's Combating Terrorism Center have published an interesting report on the role that the Haqqani Network had played over time in relation to al Qaeda. It's useful...
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Over at Opinio Juris, Kevin Jon Heller gamely steps up to the plate to defend yesterday's New York Times editorial:
As part of his ongoing war against the New York Times, Ben Wittes has a post today enti...
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I am not sure how I stumbled into the role of unpaid fact-checker for the New York Times editorial page on matters of law and security. But as long as the Times keeps publishing editorials like this one,...
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On Wednesday, the UK Supreme Court handed down its decision in Al-Rawi v.
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( A joint response from Benjamin Wittes and Bobby Chesney)
On Thursday we criticized a piece by Thomas Joscelyn at The Weekly Standard concerning Matt Olsen and the GTMO Review Task Force, in which Josc...
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No sooner had I posted my comment on Monday about the DC Circuit’s Alien Tort Statute decision in the ExxonMobil case than the Seventh Circuit issued its own decision on the question of corporate ATS lia...
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Only a few round-up items today.
On Thursday the U.S. government asked a judge to order the ACLU to return a secret document that was mistakenly given to the group.
The Washington Post's Ellen Nakashim...
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In the aftermath of Harold Koh's testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee a few weeks ago, Senator Lugar sent a set of QFRs (Questions for the Record) that raised a number of interesting q...
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Marty Lederman has a terrific post exploring in more detail the First Amendment issues raised by the Begolly indictment. It's a must-read if you are interested in the prospects for prosecuting those who...
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