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The House Homeland Security Committee has now released its own updated version of a cybersecurity bill. The text is (Lungren Substitute April 2012). This bill stands in pretty significant contrast to ...
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We now have a collection of speeches from the past two years by the Obama administration's top lawyers in the national security agencies and departments on targeted killing and (hypothetically speaking) ...
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It was such a beautiful day here yesterday in Washington that Headlines and Commentary took the day off.
Lots of debate on the cybersecurity legislation, but luckily The Hill is all over this one: on Fr...
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A judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Washington in Seattle has dismissed a Bivens action by a former Guantanamo detainee against former Defense Secretary Bob Gates. Adel Hassan Hamad is...
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My old colleague Daniel Klaidman from days of yore at Legal Times writes in with a guest post on CIA General Counsel Stephen Preston's speech at Harvard Law School.
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We are delighted to announce three important new voices joining Lawfare's cadre of senior contributors.
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Today the Supreme Court issued cert. determinations in two of the several Guantanamo-related petitions that have been filed this term. The Court denied both petitions, declining to hear either Abdah v.
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Rumor has it that sometime this week (perhaps as early as tomorrow), Congressmen Scott Rigell (R-VA) and Jeff Landry (R-LA) will introduce a bill titled the "Right to Habeas Corpus Act." In short, the bi...
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Sometimes my friends ask me "how bad is it really?" How bad is the cyber threat? It's hard to answer that question -- and its even harder when the experts can't reach a consensus. It would be almost i...
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An important predicate for the legal and political justification for the U.S.
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A couple of weeks ago, I poked fun at the Virginia General Assembly's protest legislation aimed at the NDAA and wondered if Gov. Bob McDonnell would veto it. As things turned out, he didn't; he proposed ...
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The Rogers-Ruppersberger bill will come to the floor the week of April 23. It's information sharing provisions are likely to be the crux of the debate on the House side. Today, the Manager's filed a dr...
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OK. I made up the quote, but it is a fair assessment of Professor Eugene Spafford's message to Congress. On Wednesday April 11, Spaf (as he is widely known) gave the invited Frank Howard Distinguished ...
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Last year, Bobby, Larkin, and I released a paper entitled "The Emerging Law of Detention 2.0: The Guantanamo Habeas Cases as Lawmaking." The paper promised to be a kind of living document:
Rather than si...
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Let’s begin with the Tarek Mehanna news.
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I hope you aren't too sick of reading about Abd Al-Rahim Hussein Muhammad Abdu Al Nashiri, 'cuz there's more. No, this isn't from his military commission case.
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Nigeria seems to have just added some state practice to the debate about whether and when an armed conflict exists between a state and a terrorist group. On Tuesday, the Nigerian Army’s Chief of Staff i...
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Published by James Currey (London UK 2011)
Reviewed by Tom Porteous
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This looks like a very interesting event:
The Georgetown Center on National Security and the Law
and the
Journal of National Security Law and Policy
Cordially invite you to a lively discussion of the J...
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After yesterdays motions hearing, Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins issued the following comments:
Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins
Remarks at Guantanamo Bay on 12 April 2012
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