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Shocker! The AP reports that Al Shabab has formally joined Al Qaeda, according to a video message by Ayman al-Zawahri.
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I have only flipped through the House Armed Services subcommittee report entitled, "Leaving Guantanamo: Policies, Pressures, and Detainees Returning to the Fight," and I find I have little to say about it.
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The AP reports that a drone strike in Pakistan killed five militants this morning; one of the demisees was a gentleman named Badar Mansoor, a senior commander "suspected of killing dozens of people in at...
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House Armed Services Chairman Buck McKeon released the following statement on the detainee recidivism report:
House Armed Services Committee Releases
Report on Risk Levels in the Release of Detainees fr...
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There apparently hasn't been any press about this yet, but there's a new lawsuit filed over Rear Admiral David Woods' order last year requiring all attorney-client communications at Guantanamo to be rev...
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Back in March 2011, House Armed Services Chairman Buck McKeon and Ranking Minority Member Adam Smith instructed the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations to examine transfers and releases of detai...
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An interesting ruling from the 9th Circuit yesterday in Ibrahim v. DHS (Judge W. Fletcher, joined by Judge Nelson, dissent by visiting Judge Duffy (the latter appearing by designation)).
Rabinah Ibrahim...
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One of the dangers of blogging about current events is that changing events tend to overtake what you have written. Earlier this week, I wrote about the two House bills currently moving through that cha...
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John Bellinger's last post on the amicus filings on behalf of defendants in the Kiobel Alien Tort Statute case, to be heard in the Supreme Court later this month, made me think this conference at UVA law...
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Further to the prior exchange between myself and Kevin Jon Heller regarding allegations of drone strikes targeting persons in the context of funerals or post-strike rescue activity, Jens David Ohlin has ...
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The reply brief in support of certiorari in Al-Madhwani v. Obama has been filed. We earlier posted Al Madhwani’s cert petition and the government's opposition to cert.
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The Governments of Germany, the
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Yesterday was a slow news day.
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David Bosco writes Foreign Policy's The Multilateralist blog and is the author of the fine 2009 book, Five to Rule Them All: The UN Security Council and the Making of the Modern World and, finally, is my...
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Raffaela is correct that there's nothing terribly surprising in the D.C. Circuit's Suleiman opinion, which was publicly released yesterday. In fact, the brief opinion--written by Judge Thomas Griffith fo...
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The Heritage Foundation on Thursday is holding an event entitled "Decoding Afghanistan: What Are U.S. Goals and How Close Are We to Achieving Them?" The event, which is scheduled for 11:30 am-1:00 pm, is...
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A very light news day...
The FAA bill that the House passed has now been approved by the Senate as well, reports Keith Laing and Josiah Ryan at The Hill. It is a four-year extension bill, which means no...
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The D.C. Circuit's affirmance of the District Court's judgment in Suleiman v. Obama, which we noted two weeks ago, is available here.
Nothing terribly surprising in the opinion, which was written by Jud...
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Over at Opinio Juris, Kevin Jon Heller responds to my earlier post regarding the BIJ report on drone strikes in Pakistan, and in doing so draws attention to a very interesting question. [Update: see Dap...
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Don't let it ever be said that the D.C. Circuit always rules against detainees. Today, a three-judge panel ruled kept Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman Al Bahlul’s military commission appeal alive--likely against ...
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