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Today's Headlines and Commentary
The latest on the Boston bombings is that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been charged with using a weapon of mass destruction and malicious destruction of property in a dramatic bedside hearing yesterday. -
Today's Senate Judiciary Subcommittee Hearing on the Targeted Killing Program
As Greg McNeal noted, the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights is holding a hearing this afternoon on the targeted killing program entitled "Drone ... -
Breaking News: D.C. Circuit Grants En Banc Rehearing in Al-Bahlul
Whoa. This is very big news---though what it means is far less clear. The D.C. Circuit has granted the government's petition for rehearing en banc in the military commission case of U.S. v. Al-Bahlul. ... -
Senator Graham on Tsarnaev and Miranda
Yesterday, Senator Lindsey Graham held a press conference, in which he unsurprisingly lamented the White House's decision not to treat Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as an "enemy combatant." A transcript is below. G... -
NYT on Tsarnaev's Bedside Initial Hearing and PSE Questioning
Among other things, the story describes the defendant's interrogation, Sunday, pursuant to Miranda's public safety exception: BOSTON — Lying grievously wounded in a hospital bed, the surviving suspect i... -
The "Tsarnaev is Innocent" Movement
I suppose this was inevitable: A Twitter hashtag has developed devoted to the proposition that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is innocent: #Freejahar, for those curious to check it out. Spencer Ackerman describes it ... -
Five Ways to Reform the Targeted Killing Program
Can the targeted killing program be reformed? That will be the topic of discussion today at 4pm EST, as the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights h... -
Why It's Too Soon To Call the Boston Marathon Bombing an Intelligence Failure
Lawfare's crack team of contributors has been busy invading The Huffington Post. Hot on the heels of Susan and Ritika's excellent backgrounder on Chechnya and Kyrgyzstan, I've posted an article arguing t... -
Reflections on Kiobel
A few Lawfare readers have wondered why, given the past attention we have paid on this blog to the Alien Tort Statute, none of us have had anything to say about last week’s landmark decision in Kiobel. ... -
A Deep(er) Dive into Chechnya and Kyrgyzstan
While the manhunt for one of the Boston bombing suspects was underway Friday, Susan and I wrote up this short annotated bibliography linking to pertinent resources about the conflicts in Chechnya and Kyr... -
Tsarnaev Has Been Mirandized by the Court: What Is the Next Interrogation Issue?
The Miranda issue is over. As Wells noted earlier, Tsarnaev made his initial appearance before a magistrate judge, at the hospital, and at that time the judge informed Tsarnaev of his right to remain si... -
Cybersecurity, Einstein 3 and Privacy
Einstein 3 is the Federal Government's expanded system for protecting Federal cyber networks through the inspection of all traffic heading to Federal networks. It is both an intrusion detection and an i...
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