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Today's Headlines and Commentary
MSNBC counts the total number of GTMO detainees participating in the hunger strike at 100. -
Katyal’s Review of Power and Constraint in Harvard Law Review
Neal Katyal has a review of my book Power and Constraint in the Harvard Law Review. My response is here. Neal’s review basically claims that I don’t understand American separation of powers, and my res... -
Carrie Cordero on Questions to Ask After the Boston Attacks
Carrie Cordero, Georgetown’s Director of National Security Studies and a former Justice Department official, writes in with this piece on the Boston attacks and possible improvements to our approach to c... -
UK Considers Withdrawing from European Convention on Human Rights
In mid-March, I noted a speech by Home Secretary Theresa May, in which she advanced the idea that the UK should consider withdrawing from the European Convention on Human Rights. As I noted then, the Eu... -
The New York Times Declares Al Qaeda Membership Legitimate Political Activity
I was away when the New York Times ran its latest editorial related to national security legal issues, so I’m afraid I did not fly-speck “The Guantanamo Stain” for factual errors. No matter. It doesn’t ... -
Lawfare Podcast #29: Former Counterterrorism Official Philip Mudd Interviewed at Brookings
On Monday, my Brookings colleague Bruce Riedel held an excellent discussion with Philip Mudd, former deputy director of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center and author of the new book Takedown: Inside the H... -
Count Me Confused
The Hill reports: The head of the House Intelligence panel is worried the Justice Department may have jeopardized the public’s safety by allowing a federal judge to read the Boston bombing suspect his Mi... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Much of this week's Lawfare commentary concerned the recently-filed case against Boston bombing suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev. But that's not all. Among other things, we noted critical developments in Guantan... -
Defending Drones at the Oxford Union
Going to a university campus to defend the use of armed drones is a little like ascending the pulpit in a Southern Baptist church on a Sunday morning to speak on behalf of the Devil. -
Chemical Weapons in Syria: Enough to Justify the Use of Force?
Now that the United States has acknowledged – with a modest level of confidence – that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons against the rebels, many press articles are asking whether (or argui... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Let’s begin with this New York Times editorial on the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. The board argues that President George W. Bush’s “tough decisions” during his time in office have led this country... -
An Explainer on <em>Hamdan II</em>, <em>Al-Bahlul</em>, and the Jurisdiction of the Guantánamo Military Commissions
As Wells noted on Tuesday, the D.C. Circuit granted the government's petition for rehearing en banc in Al-Bahlul v. United States.
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