Here is the letter.  Two points of note. First, the President makes clear that he is authorizing military force in Iraq “pursuant to my constitutional authority to conduct U.S. foreign relations and as ...

It is pretty clear that President Obama today relied on Article II to attack the Islamist State (IS) in Iraq.  I have addressed the legality of such unilateral military action here and here.  I have also...

Yesterday I maintained that the Iraq strikes were not legally problematic to the extent that they were justified as self-defense of U.S. persons, but said that “[i]f the Iraq strikes are conceptualized a...

The Pentagon tweets that the U.S. military has begun airstrikes against Islamic State (IS) positions in Iraq.  Precisely, force has been deployed against IS artillery that was used “against Kurdish force...

This time, it's Mohammed Al-Adahi (remember him?). The opinion is by Judge Gladys Kessler.

Here y'are.  Brig. Gen. Mark Martins, the Chief Prosecutor at Guantanamo, opens his statement as follows: Good afternoon. This Friday will mark sixty-nine years since the signing of the London Agreement ...

As Wells notes, the Obama administration is contemplating air strikes in Iraq to protect threatened religious minorities there.

The New York Times reports:  WASHINGTON — President Obama is considering airstrikes or airdrops of food and medicine to address a humanitarian crisis among as many as 40,000 religious minorities in Iraq...

When the court returns from recess, the parties move into argument on AE277, the defense’s motion for a judicial order compelling an MRI of Al-Nashiri’s brain to determine if he has brain damage. The de...

This week's pre-trial session in United States v. Al-Nashiri came to a close yesterday; courtesy of new Lawfare contributor Zoe Bedell, you'll find summaries of the day's key developments in our "Events ...

Judge Spath begins today’s hearings noting that Al-Nashiri is not present. The court first hears testimony from the Guantanamo Staff Judge Advocate who had received Al-Nashiri’s waiver, Captain G, who wa...

The thing kind of speaks for itself:

So reports the New York Times: MOSCOW — Edward J. Snowden, the American intelligence contractor who published a raft of secret documents and then fled to Russia, has been granted a three-year residence ...

The New York Times is reporting that, according to Kurdish officials, American forces have bombed ISIS targets in Iraq: American military forces bombed at least two targets in northern Iraq on Thursday ...

Over at the Wall Street Journal, Siobhan Gorman is reporting on a new letter from the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts on Sen. Leahy's FISA reform legislation. Signed by U.S.

Judge Spath then moves to AE 295, a defense filing and the penultimate item on the agenda.

In the final session for the day, Judge Spath announces he has come to a ruling on AE277.  This is the defense's bid for Al-Nashiri to have an MRI examination, presumably in order to unearth the damage w...