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For those of you who missed Jack--and others--speak about his new book yesterday at AEI, never fear.
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Rep. Peter King is at it again--he's chairing an investigative hearing of the House Homeland Security Committee today to assess the terror threat to the U.S. homeland posed by Iran and its links to Hezbo...
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Earlier this week I published a piece on the Foreign Policy page that defended the legal infrastructure for the Obama’s administration’s targeted killing program. At the end I made the following proposa...
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Yesterday, Judge John Bates of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia granted the government’s motion for summary judgment in the case of Kadi v. Geithner. Yassin Abdullah Kadi, a...
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A Pakistani parliamentary commission has demanded an end to U.S.
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A little while back, I wrote an article describing the evolution of our capture and detention policies in Iraq from 2003 to 2010 (based on a review of a massive pile of after-action reports and interview...
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The D.C. Circuit heard oral argument yesterday in Doe v. Rumsfeld (11-5209), a Bivens case brought by a U.S. citizen working as a military contractor in Iraq who alleged detention and interrogation abuse...
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In most years when I teach my seminar on the history of terrorism and US counterterrorism law and policy, the question arises why terrorists do not more frequently embrace the "Beltway Sniper" model--i....
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Two upcoming events at the Brookings Institution that are salient to a lot of the issues we discuss on Lawfare:
Pakistan on the Edge: The Future of Pakistan and the U.S. Response
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Lots of developments over the weekend in the case of the American soldier who went on a rampage and killed 16 Afghan civilians. First off, he now has a name--Staff Sgt. Robert Bales--and the New York Tim...
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Peter Margulies of Roger Williams School of Law has this article on proposed amendments to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
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In this episode of the Lawfare Podcast, I sat down with Lawfare's cybersecurity legislative guest blogger, Paul Rosenzweig, and with my Brookings colleague Allan Friedman, to talk about pending pending c...
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An administration official sends in the following in response to Andy Worthington's critique of the DNI's recidivism numbers:
How I wish he were right. But he isn’t.
The DNI numbers usefully distingu...
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British journalist Andy Worthington offers this critique of the recent DNI report on Guantanamo recidivism--and of the press coverage of the report.
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I have three major events in connection with my book this week.
Tonight at 6 p.m., the Harvard Book Store will be hosting an event at the Brattle Theater in Cambridge. Discussants will be Harvard profe...
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The complaint is here. From the press release:
DENVER – Bakhtiyor Jumaev, 45, of Philadelphia, was arrested this morning without incident by members of the Philadelphia FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force (...
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The Federalist Society's upcoming (April 5) national security and law symposium features an array of great speakers, including Ben and Steve. Details below:
2012 National Security Symposium
Internatio...
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In earlier posts I’ve written generally about the information sharing provisions of the Lieberman-Collins cybersecurity bill and the McCain bill. Today I want to begin drilling down in comparing the two...
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I had no idea when I wrote this post last night about ConText that I would awaken this morning to this incredible story by my former colleague David Ignatius about a cache of soon-to-be-released communic...
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In one of my other lives, a project to which I am particularly attached has come to fruition Friday. Called ConText, it has--at least on its face--nothing to do with national security law.
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