Last October, I noted the publication of a House Intelligence Committee report on the possibility of hardware intrusions arising from the use of products manufactured by Huawei and/or ZTE (two Chinese te...

As Raffaela noted this morning, on remand from the Supreme Court’s rejection of the political question doctrine in Zivotofsky v. Clinton, the D.C. Circuit today held that Section 214(d) of the 2003 Forei...

On Monday, Judge Michael Shea of the District of Connecticut dismissed an ATS and TVPA suit against former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo based on a Suggestion of Immunity filed by the Justice Departm...

Sometime late today or perhaps tomorrow the House of Representatives will vote on a proposed amendment to the Defense appropriations bill offered by Representative Justin Amash (R-MI) and co-sponsored by...

A recent cluster of stories – on al Qaeda’s growth, dispersion, and resilience, on the USG’s increased use of surveillance drones outside of “hot war zones,” on the USG possibly 

Really stunning. Hat tip: Albert Lukban

On March 8, 2011, Saeed Bakhouch, an Algerian GTMO detainee also known as Razak Ali, noted an appeal of the District Court’s January 2011 denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus.  Oral argumen...

Today, the Brookings Institution released a lengthy paper my colleague Daniel Byman and I have been working on for some time, entitled "Tools and Tradeoffs: Confronting U.S. Citizen Terrorist Suspects Ab...

One thing that struck me about the run up to the recent nomination for FBI Director (and the earlier nomination process for Secretary of State): the lack of public dialogue about the challenges the burea...

There are at least three noteworthy elements in the WP’s story this morning about intelligence committee “approval” of “CIA weapons shipments to opposition fighters in Syria.” First is the fact that the...