Attorneys for Ammar al-Baluchi, one of the five men accused of plotting the 9/11 attacks, said the following today in a statement: WASHINGTON, DC-Today, the legal team representing Ammar al Baluchi submi...

Hey GTMO fans: the estimable Matt Danzer's digests of yesterday's hearing in this capital Guantanamo military commissions case can be found below, and in our "Events Coverage" section. Keep an eye on th...

The commission returns from recess and prepares to consider AE 284 and 284L, a defense motion and supplement seeking to allow Al-Nashiri to hold supervised Skype calls with his elderly parents. Before t...

Military judge Vance Spath opens Wednesday’s motions proceedings with AE 181G, a defense request to reargue the underlying defense motion to remove the possibility of the death penalty for Al-Nashiri if ...

It...is...on. At a press briefing today, President Obama declared three legislative priorities for the lame-duck Congress in the weeks ahead. One is to get an AUMF for ISIS: Second, I'm going to begin en...

Those of you interested in the organization of the Intelligence Community may recall a major initiative launched by the Defense Intelligence Agency, in 2012, to expand the size and focus of its HUMINT co...

The only holiday devoted to celebrating the failure of non-state actors to destroy the symbols and institutions of state power.

The result is no surprise: Republicans now control both houses of Congress---or, at least, they will come January. I'll leave it to others to dissect how we should understand last night's electoral resul...

Below you’ll find a recap of yesterday morning’s argument in Klayman v. Obama. A three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit yesterday considered a key challenge to the NSA’s bulk collection from telephone c...

A little programming note here, y'all: today marks the first of a two-day, pre-trial hearing in the military commission case of United States v. Al-Nashiri.  But Lawfare unfortunately won't be in the hou...

That takes the count down to 148 detainees at Guantanamo.  Here's the story from the Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg: GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba A Kuwait aircraft lifted off from this remote Navy bas...

Brig. Gen. Mark Martins' remarks on the two-day pre-trial session, which commences today, can be found here.  (Note that the hearing will proceed, despite the pendency of the United States' appeal of the...

It's Ben's birthday, and a very kind person sent over this excellent story in Slate as a present.

A very interesting development today with respect to the ongoing effort to complete the shut-down of US-administered military detention in Afghanistan: As you may recall, we have long since ceased holdi...

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