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Washington was abuzz this week as more than 50 African leaders were in town for the first U.S.-Africa Summit. Yesterday, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, the President of Somalia, spoke at Brookings on the future ...
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In his WPR notification yesterday, President Obama stated that military operations in Iraq “will be limited in their scope and duration.” But today, according to the NYT, President Obama “sought to pre...
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Yesterday, the U.S. conducted air strikes and aid drops in response to the ongoing crisis in Iraq. Wells informed us on Thursday that President Obama was considering renewed U.S. involvement in Iraq. Cod...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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“Today America is coming to help,” announced President Obama as he authorized U.S. airstrikes and humanitarian airdrops in northern Iraq. The Associated Press notes that “the announcements reflected the ...
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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...
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Dan Geer gave this keynote address at the Black Hat conference yesterday. It is entitled Cybersecurity as Realpolitik. It begins with some general thoughts on the state of play in cybersecurity, addres...
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This time, it's Mohammed Al-Adahi (remember him?). The opinion is by Judge Gladys Kessler.
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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 ...
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As Wells notes, the Obama administration is contemplating air strikes in Iraq to protect threatened religious minorities there.
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This morning, CNN asks “Will anyone stop ISIS?” It may be that the New York Times has the answer: “President Obama is considering airstrikes or airdrops of food and medicine to address a humanitarian cri...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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The thing kind of speaks for itself:
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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 ...
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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 ...
