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[Note: a reader responded that I missed the point that an important point about the underlying BIJ report, one that puts the "A Question of Legality" component of the report in a different light.
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In two earlier posts I’ve focused on some of the particular issues that may arise during the Senate’s consideration of a comprehensive cybersecurity bill. The focus on the Senate is apt, inasmuch as Sen...
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In recent months, it has become clear that a surprising number of people are using Lawfare as a research tool. This was most unexpected, and we frankly had never considered research ease when we designed...
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Ben already noted the report released over the weekend by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism regarding CIA drone strikes that have allegedly targeted rescuers responding to the scene of earlier strik...
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Brian Jenkins of RAND sharply criticizes the NDAA's detention provisions in this short piece at Foreign Affairs.
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Paul Stephan, the John C. Jeffries, Jr.
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The report to which I linked earlier has several pieces accompanying it.
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The London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism has reported before on civilian casualties in drone strikes, but this new report has a twist: It is alleging that "The CIA’s drone campaign in Pakistan...
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Russia and China today vetoed a proposed UNSC Resolution (stories here and here) that would have condemned the abuses in Syria, demanded their cessation, required Syria to give free rein to League of Ara...
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Interesting story in Foreign Policy by Aaron Zelin of the Jihadology blog reporting that Abu Musab al-Suri, the theoretician of leaderless jihad, may have been freed from prison in Syria. Al-Suri is the ...
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Memo to any and all D.C. Circuit judges.
Please note in Steve's post earlier about the Fourth Circuit's Al Shimari argument the second bullet-pointed sentence: "The (long) oral argument audio is availab...
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The AP covers breaking news that the hacker group Anonymous intercepted and leaked a January conference call between the FBI and Scotland Yard regarding the tracking and prosecution of members of the gr...
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I wasn't able to attend last Friday's oral argument before the en banc Fourth Circuit in the Abu Ghraib contractor suits (about which we've said quite a bit previously).
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Cori Crider of the British human rights group Reprieve stopped by my office yesterday to talk about her client, Yunus Rahmatullah--about whom Bobby has written and who is suddenly the subject of a very d...
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The Washington Post and the New York Times both report that the U.S will end combat operations in Afghanistan by mid-2013, more than a year earlier than scheduled.
But beware of this brewing storm in th...
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British journalist William Shawcross's new book on Nuremberg and the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Justice and the Enemy, continues to receive a great deal of attention (See Jack's review here and Wel...
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I share Bobby's skepticism "that the public actually is primed to explode with anger" should the Obama administration notify Congress that it intends to send high-level Taliban detainees now at Guantanam...
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Nobody in Washington ever got rich making predictions about the political process. Nevertheless, I will go out on a limb and predict that at some point in the coming debate over the Senate cybersecurity...
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From Reuters:
One Republican lawmaker said public opposition would escalate sharply if and when the administration formally notified Congress it intends to transfer the prisoners, who come from the highe...
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The government has filed its answer to Mustafa Ahmed Al Hawsawi's petition for a writ of mandamus concerning monitoring of attorney-client communications at Guantanamo. Al Hawsawi's motion for a prelimin...
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