I am late in reporting that last month the Second Circuit affirmed the dismissal of the ATS and TVPA suit against former President Zedillo of Mexico, based on the Suggestion of Immunity signed by my succ...

Ken Dilanian has a story on Acting CIA General Counsel Robert Eatinger (whom Caroline Krass, just confirmed, will succeed.)  Eatinger is at the center of the fracas between CIA and SCCI because he sent a...

The news, reported earlier this afternoon by the Washington Post, adds a new and interesting dimension to the CIA-SSCI spat.

So we learn from this statement, released earlier this morning by the Department of Defense: The Department of Defense announced today the transfer of Ahmed Belbacha from the detention facility at Guantá...

In the past decade, the word “Guantanamo” has come to represent far more than the Cuban bay that lent its name to one of America’s oldest military bases more than a century ago; it has joined our 21st ce...

On Monday, we reported on the temporary restraining order (TRO) issued by Judge Jeffrey S. White of the Northern District of California, which prohibited the government from destroying telephone metadata...

Last week Ben linked to the ICJ’s decision on provisional measures in the case that Timor-Leste (TL) has brought against Australia.  The Brisbane Times and other news outlets cast the decision as one req...

Published by Potomac Books (2013) Reviewed by S. Yasir Latifi

In an interview conducted yesterday at the Council on Foreign Relations, CIA Director John Brennan had an interesting exchange with Audrey Kurth Cronin on the subject of al Qaeda’s organizational scope. ...