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Last October, I noted the publication of a House Intelligence Committee report on the possibility of hardware intrusions arising from the use of products manufactured by Huawei and/or ZTE (two Chinese te...
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As Raffaela noted this morning, on remand from the Supreme Court’s rejection of the political question doctrine in Zivotofsky v. Clinton, the D.C. Circuit today held that Section 214(d) of the 2003 Forei...
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Word on the street was that Edward Snowden has received documents giving him permission to depart his temporary home in a Moscow airport. The AP reports, but the New York Times says it's not the case, af...
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On Monday, Judge Michael Shea of the District of Connecticut dismissed an ATS and TVPA suit against former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo based on a Suggestion of Immunity filed by the Justice Departm...
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Sometime late today or perhaps tomorrow the House of Representatives will vote on a proposed amendment to the Defense appropriations bill offered by Representative Justin Amash (R-MI) and co-sponsored by...
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A recent cluster of stories – on al Qaeda’s growth, dispersion, and resilience, on the USG’s increased use of surveillance drones outside of “hot war zones,” on the USG possibly
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Really stunning.
Hat tip: Albert Lukban
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On March 8, 2011, Saeed Bakhouch, an Algerian GTMO detainee also known as Razak Ali, noted an appeal of the District Court’s January 2011 denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Oral argumen...
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Today, the Brookings Institution released a lengthy paper my colleague Daniel Byman and I have been working on for some time, entitled "Tools and Tradeoffs: Confronting U.S. Citizen Terrorist Suspects Ab...
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Let’s begin with the news everyone’s ga-ga about: The Royal Baby has arrived! Just kidding. We don’t do that here. Chris Kelly, writer for SNL and The Onion, said it best:
The Royal Baby already said his...
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One thing that struck me about the run up to the recent nomination for FBI Director (and the earlier nomination process for Secretary of State): the lack of public dialogue about the challenges the burea...
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There are at least three noteworthy elements in the WP’s story this morning about intelligence committee “approval” of “CIA weapons shipments to opposition fighters in Syria.”
First is the fact that the...
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We're a little late to the party on this one, but Ben and fellow Brookings scholar Daniel Byman will discuss their lengthy report "Tools and Tradeoffs: Confronting U.S. Citizen Terrorist Suspects Abroad"...
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In his widely discussed May 23 speech at the National Defense University, President Obama acknowledged that “much of the criticism about drone strikes---at home and abroad---understandably centers on rep...
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. . . coming up on Thursday before the Senate Armed Services Committee.
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Craig Whitlock had a significant piece in the Washington Post over the weekend detailing the expanded use of surveillance drones outside of declared combat zones.
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Last week, I posted these thoughts on the remaining mystery surrounding what the 2004 dispute that led to the famous hospital room showdown. I offered a couple of theories, based on Snowen-disclosed docu...
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Well, it is not exactly being launched with fanfare, but it appears that the long-awaited Periodic Review Board (PRB) process is about to be relaunched at GTMO. So reports Carol Rosenberg, here.
Let me...
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On Friday, Brookings hosted Bob Litt, the General Counsel to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
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I was relieved to see that there is no classified information on this trail marker along the Appalachian Trail in Shenandoah National Park. I had been worried.
