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On July 14, the en banc D.C. Circuit ruled in al Bahlul v. United States that "plain error" review applied to Bahlul's ex post facto challenge to his military commission convictions for conspiracy, mater...
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There is much to pore over in last week’s release by the Director National Intelligence. Responding to FOIA litigation, the DNI’s office posted more than thirty legal filings and related documents bearin...
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The Associated Press cites conflicting reports as to whether Kurdish and Iraqi forces have retaken Mosul Dam from Islamic State fighters, with militants claiming it is still in control of the facility af...
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
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In a very positive development, Iraqi and Pesh Merga forces are in the midst of what appears thusfar to be a successful joint operation to take back the Mosul Dam from ISIS fighters. But it's not just th...
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Editor’s Note: Sixty-nine years ago, on August 15, 1945, Japanese emperor Hirohito took to the airwaves to deliver the Imperial Rescript on the Termination of the War, announcing to the Japanese people t...
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The Lawfare Podcast is at the beach this week. We can neither confirm nor deny that we will be back next week.
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With the continuation of the crisis in Iraq, President Obama announced last week that U.S.
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Here it is.
The seven-page, heavily redacted legal analysis was apparently released earlier today, as a consequence of the FOIA action brought by the New York Times and the ACLU.
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With no more conflict motions for today, the Special Review Team swaps out and the normal prosecutors come back.
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Ukrainian artillery forces have shelled a Russian military convoy moving inside Ukraine this morning, reports Reuters.Yesterday, a series of Russian armored personnel carriers crossed over the border int...
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Working off transripts, Lawfare's Matt Danzer has a rundown of yesterday's pre-trial proceedings in the 9/11 case. We'll post his dispatches in our "Events Coverage" section, while linking to them as th...
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After agreeing Wednesday to reconsider the severance of Ramzi Binalshibh from the other four accused in the 9/11 case, Judge Pohl reconvenes the commission on Thursday with a full house—all five accused,...
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Nouri al Maliki seems to have backed down from his efforts to defend with force or threats his role as Prime Minister of Iraq. But he continues to press a second approach: a court challenge to the consti...
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A reminder: Lawfare won't be traveling to Fort Meade to take in, almost live and via CCTV broadcast, the rest of this week's pretrial hearing in the 9/11 case. We will thus resort to our backup coverage...
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Army Col. James Pohl starts Wednesday's brief session begins with a summary of where things stand in the case of United States v.
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The Associated Press reports that at least four children were killed in clashes between Iraqi troops and Sunni militants west of Baghdad today, a day after the U.N. declared the humanitarian crisis in Ir...
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We flagged news coverage of this important military commissions ruling earlier, when the item in question was not yet available.
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Yesterday plaintiffs-appellees filed their response in Klayman v. Obama, the Section 215 metadata collection case up on appeal in the D.C. Circuit.
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It's hard to imagine a place in the world where one would feel less threatened by geopolitics than Iceland. It's an island. It's pretty far from anywhere else. And it has very few people (the entire coun...
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