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I'm delighted to announce that Stephen Vladeck of American University's Washington College of Law is joining Lawfare as a senior contributor. Many readers already know Steve's work, as he is one of the ...
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Ritika's Moment of Zen today gives rise to a Moment of Envy for me. I thought my trading card and being named "The Worst Possible Person in the World" were cool. But being named in an Anonymous video is ...
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The Politico reports that the army has disciplined 15 people over the WikiLeaks scandal, and at least one officer "was reduced in rank for dereliction of duty" after an "internal investigation into the d...
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Yesterday, a Fifth Circuit panel (King, joined by Garza and Graves) affirmed the convictions of the individual defendants in the Holy Land Foundation ("HLF") case and also dismissed the appeal lodged by ...
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Both of these upcoming Brookings events may interest Lawfare readers:
Hacktivism, Vigilantism and Collective Action in a Digital Age
Friday, December 09, 2011
10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Radical online a...
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The following is a continuation of our side-by-side comparison of the House and Senate versions of the NDAA:
Prohibition of Detainee Transfer to the United States
The House version of the bill (Section 1...
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Today is the 70th anniversary of the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor. Read historian Ian Toll's New York Times op-ed on the "date which will live in infamy."
With the conference committee trying to fin...
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[UPDATE (12/9/11): See here for my updated assessment as to US citizens captured abroad.]
On the day that the Senate passed its version of the NDAA, I wrote a post in the morning addressing whether the ...
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As the House of Representatives and the Senate head to conference on the NDAA, I thought it might be useful to analyze the similarities and differences between the counterterrorism provisions of the two ...
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With many thanks to Alice Beauheim, it is an idea whose time has surely come.
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A redacted version of the cert petition in the case of Hussain Salem Mohammed Almerfedi is now public.