A while back Ben posted about the pressing need for “radical transparency” in the military commissions process. It’s time to say it again:  The Pentagon must make it much easier for outsiders to follow t...

The armed conflict in Libya began as a non-international armed conflict, but was internationalized when a host of states intervened against the Libyan government.  Now, the United States has joined a gro...

The Washington Post is reporting: The U.S.

I want to pile on to Ben's post in defense of NCTC nominee Matt Olsen.  Ben notes that some are intimating that Matt somehow is soft on terrorism because the GTMO Review Task Force concluded that some ex...

An important and interesting indictment issued today (see here for the pdf), in the Eastern District of Virginia. Emerson Begolly, an American citizen from Pennsyvlania (who already was under arrest aft...

I was afraid that the nomination of Matthew Olsen to head NCTC would head in this direction.

Thomas Barnett has an interesting post at Battleland playing off Thom Shanker's piece in the Times today regarding biometrics and security in Afghanistan.  Barnett's point: such measures are more likely ...

...but it may as well be.

In response to my post yesterday about looming habeas litigation alleging that the U.S.

Michael Yon, whose dispatches from the field are always interesting (and typically include copious photography to give you a feel for what he has seen), recently traveled with General Martins in connecti...

This afternoon, NPR and France 24 reported on two significant events regarding Libya.  First, Gadhafi may be ready to leave the country, and his representatives have sought negotiations regarding the mec...

An article today in The Nation, by Jeremy Scahill, alleges that the CIA operates a proxy detention facility in Mogadishu (the article also alleges a CIA-sponsored training operation for Somali government...

Guess what? Human Rights Watch still wants to prosecute former President George W. Bush for torture. You knew that already? Yeah, so did I.

Last week, the European Court of Human Rights (“ECHR”) released two decisions regarding the British military’s alleged violation, in Iraq, of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundame...

[UPDATE: Please note the updated, italicized text below.  Also check out Marko Milanovic's take on al-Jedda and al-Skeini, here.] Hilal Abdul-Razzaq Ali Al-Jedda is a dual citizen of Iraq and Great Brit...