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I promised yesterday that I would have more to say about Andrea Prasow's comments on the fairness of the Majid Khan plea agreement after I had a chance to stew on them a bit. In the meantime, I have lear...
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In late January, Daniel Klaidman reported that the administration was inclined to have Attorney General Holder give a major speech specifying additional details regarding the legal framework governing th...
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In a conversation several years ago about what was then simply a hypothesized US military exit from Afghanistan, a friend told me, think of the CIA as the French Foreign Legion. My friend meant by that ...
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In an interview with Jeff Goldberg late last week, President Obama stated that a U.S.
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Yesterday, I posed a question to Human Rights Watch in response to some comments in the Washington Post by an official of the organization, Andrea Prasow.
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Missy Cummings, Director of the Humans and Automation Laboratory and a professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT discusses robots on our battlefields.
Cummings is a bit of a force of nature.
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Raffaela has retreated to an undisclosed location, so I will be your one-stop-shop for all things news and commentary for the next week.
We begin, naturally, with stories that mention our own people.
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In today's Washington Post, Peter Finn has an excellent story on the comparative leniency of sentencing in military commissions to date compared with sentencing in federal court. In it, he reports the fo...
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Before the terms of Majid Khan's plea deal emerged, some conservatives were preemptively outraged by its reported terms. Marc Thiessen denounced as "astounding" what he called "The idea that the Obama a...
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Writing over at Forbes, Pepperdine law professor Gregory McNeal has this thoughtful piece about the President's policy directive. It contains some interesting ruminations on the breadth of some of the wa...
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On February 29, Judge Kollar-Kotelly of the District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed a lawsuit brought under the Torture Victim Protection Act against President Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka, based...
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Over at The Atlantic, Andrew Cohen offers this analysis of President Obama's implementation procedures for Section 1022 of the NDAA.
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An irony of contemporary intellectual discourse is that the sharpest critique of the international human rights movement - or at least the critique of its foundational myths - is found these days in the ...
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Looks like there's another cybersecurity working group in the House of Representatives--this one appointed by Rep. Greg Walden, who chairs the Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Communications and Techn...
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As predicted, a group of leading Senate Republicans (McCain, Hutchison, Grassley, Chambliss, Murkowski and Coats) have introduced an alternative cybersecurity bill that will be in direct competition with...
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Sudan and newly-independent South Sudan have featured in many news stories over the last several years; a headline in today's Washington Post, for example, reads "South Sudan: Sudan bombed 2 oil wells in...
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Someone pointed out to me yesterday that in the recent Al Kandari cert petition, there is exactly one secondary source site: a Lawfare post. (See pp. vii and p. 12).
Neato.
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In her news roundup for last Friday, Ritika briefly mentioned that a drone strike had killed four al-Shabab militants in Somalia.
The New York Times had also cursorily mentioned the strike in this shor...
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While the experience is fresh, I thought I'd share some reflections on this morning's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Due Process Guarantee Act.
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Here for all the world to see.
We've got:
The Stipulation of Fact
Pre-Trial Agreement
Appendix A of the Pre-Trial Agreement
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