Slate's Dahlia Lithwick has posted excerpts from the Aspen Security Forum event to which I linked on Sunday.

U.S. District Judge Henry Kennedy has denied the habeas corpus petition of Guantanamo detainee Fadhel Hussein Saleh Hentif (ISN 259). There is no unclassified opinion yet. We will post it as soon as it b...

Last Friday, a British appellate court -- the England and Wales High Court -- issued an unusual decision that creates a further chink in the immunity of foreign government officials from criminal prosecu...

Those who enjoyed this post on Benjamin Franklin or this one on Robert Jackson but who don't enjoy this photo, shot on Friday in Rock Creek Park in Washington DC, deserve none of them.

Nicholas Schmidle has a piece up at the New Yorker providing the most detailed account I've yet seen of the raid that killed bin Laden.  It's a gripping read, obviously very well informed by JSOC sources...

Check out the composition of this panel--which must of stressed all of Dahlia Lithwick's copious social skills to keep civil. I haven't watched it yet, but I thought I would flag it for interested reade...

The indictment in United States v. Abdo, alleging a plot to bomb a restaurant in the Killeen area frequented by soldiers from Fort Hood, is available here.

The UK Human Rights Blog has this analysis of the British government's detainee inquiry, which is just getting off the ground.

The Onion has the story: WASHINGTON—In a 30-minute video released Thursday, al- Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri criticized the mass transportation infrastructure of the United States, claiming significant...

Two weeks ago, I posted a short piece--which grew out of a paper I am writing on the relationship between liberty and security--concerning what Ben Franklin really meant when he said that “Those who woul...

An interesting column by David Ignatius pointed me to this fascinating-looking report by Richard Danzig, Marc Sageman, and others. Published by the Center for a New American Security, the report is entit...

I've written a lot over the years about the way law responds to changing practical phenomena such as the emergence of non-state actors as a strategic threat, ala al Qaeda, as have many others.  This vein...

There are few topics more slippery--and more emblematic of the current age--than the intersection of transnational organized crime, narcotics, illicit arms, and violent non-state actors.  On that front, ...

I came away from today's HASC hearing much more optimistic about the future course of our detention/prosecution policy than I had been coming in, as there were signs of what I hope will become consensus ...

Today's House Armed Services Hearing on "Ten Years After the 2001 AUMF: Current Status of Legal Authorities, Detention, and Prosecution in the War on Terror" included testimony from the following witness...