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The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
I'm emerging temporarily from my undisclosed location to get you caught up on this week's Lawfare happenings. Detention-related matters made up most, but hardly all, of the week's writings. There were ... -
Loopcast Interview on Drones
This morning, a gentleman named Sina Kashefipour, who tweets on national security-related matters under the improbable moniker @rejectionking, came by my office to interview me for a podcast he runs on n... -
Obaydullah on the Hunger Strike
In March, Obaydullah, a Guantanamo detainee, signed this declaration. -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Yesterday was a day we mostly forgot about: the second anniversary of the Osama bin Laden raid. Although much of the commentary centered around remarks from Adm. William McRaven, head of Special Operatio... -
Oxford Union Debate on Drone Warfare
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Military Jurisdiction Over Civilians: Why the Supreme Court Should Grant Cert. in <em>Ali</em>
Next Thursday, the Supreme Court will decide whether or not to grant certiorari in United States v. Ali--the case in which the highest court in the military justice system, the Court of Appeals for the A... -
The D.C. Circuit "Clarifies" Scope of <em>Bahlul</em> En Banc Rehearing
As Raff noted last week, the lawyers for the defendant-appellant in United States v. al-Bahlul--the military commission case in which the D.C. -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Dear Readers: You're all stuck with me for the next week and a half while Raffaela takes a bit of a break. Let's begin with more news on those three comrades of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev who were arrested in co... -
New Tech and National Security Law -- Memoto
One of the fun parts of working in the cybersecurity field is that you often come across new technology that is interesting, dismaying, disturbing or just plain cool. Sometimes the technology is all of ... -
John Bellinger on "Drones and the Rule of Law and War"
The Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington, DC hosted an excellent discussion yesterday on targeted killing in which "[p]anelists evaluated issues like the current frameworks regarding the use of drones,... -
Slate's GTMO Memoir and the Murky Story of Mohamedou Ould Slahi
Slate magazine has a big scoop this week; it has published excerpts from a lengthy, 466-page memoir by Guantanamo detainee Mohamedou Ould Slahi, released by Slahi's lawyers. In the Slate package, Slahi d... -
Mali, the Way of the Knife, and Working "By, With, and Through" Others
While we are on the subject of Mark Mazzetti’s The Way of the Knife, and for that matter while we are speaking of Mali, check out this Washington Post report on U.S.
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