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Assessing the Review Group Recommendations: Part III
In Parts I and II of this series, I focused on the Review Group recommendations from Chapter III of the group's report. Starting in this post, I turn to the recommendations of Chapter IV, which deal with... -
The Last Uighurs
The Obama Administration's Guantanamo envoys Clifford Sloan and Paul Lewis (at State and DoD respectively) should be commended for their hard work to resettle the last of the 22 Uighurs from Guantanamo. ... -
Remaining Ethnic Uighur Chinese Detainees Transferred from Guantanamo
Today the Department of Defense announced that Yusef Abbas, Saidullah Khalik, and Hajiakbar Abdul Ghuper have been transferred to the government of Slovakia, and will voluntarily settle in that country. ... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary...
...will be taking the day off today and tomorrow for New Years. Thanks very much for sticking with us in 2013, and a Happy New Year to all! -
The D.C. Circuit's Opinion in the Bagram Habeas Petitions
On Christmas Eve, a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit handed down its opinion in a habeas appeal brought by three detainees held by the United States at Bagram Air Force Base's Parwan detention facil... -
Eric Posner’s New Blog
Eric Posner has a new blog, and some of the issues on it will be of interest to Lawfare readers. For example, this post discusses Eric's recent constitutional defense (on Slate) of the NSA meta-data pro... -
A Cert Petition in Hedges v. Obama
It was filed two Mondays ago, evidently, in this long-running detention case; I've only seen the Westlaw version, which interested readers can access here. -
Today’s Headlines and Commentary
Today a suicide bomber in Volgograd killed 14 people on a bus, in the second terrorist attack on the southern Russian city in less than 24 hours, reports the Wall Street Journal. -
Abdullah Files His Reply-Brief Before the D.C. Circuit
As Raffaela previously noted, the case of Abdullah v. Obama is an exercise in "heel dragging and losing arguments." A brief refresher on the case: the legal saga started when Guantanamo detainee Hani Sal... -
When Data Is Currency: Thoughts in Response to Jack and Evgeny Morozov
On Friday Jack offered some thoughts on Evgeny Morozov's piece in the Financial Times about the broader implications of the Snowden revelations, overlooked by those intent on fitting each new leak into a... -
The Foreign Policy Essay: C. Christine Fair on "Lashkar-e-Taiba: Pakistan’s Domesticated Terrorists"
Lashkar-e-Tayiba (LeT), which operates under the name Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JUD), is both an important and misunderstood terrorist group. LeT grabbed world attention in 2008, when its operatives attacked hotel... -
Judge Pauley's Section 215 Opinion: A Summary
As Raffaela reported, on Friday Judge William H. Pauley III of the Southern District of New York held that bulk telephony metadata collection under Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act is lawful, and therefore...
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