The Ahmed Warsame case (Warsame is the al Shabaab member captured by US forces while attempting to return to Somalia after a period of training with AQAP in Yemen, who was then held for two months in mil...

Ben has already noted that the United States and Afghahnistan struck a deal to resume the process of handing over the remnants of U.S.

Even for those keeping up with the Guantánamo litigation, this decision by Chief Judge Lamberth, a declassified version of which was released on Friday, may have slipped under the radar. The specific iss...

James Lewis had an op-ed yesterday in the WP about “Five Myths About Chinese Hackers.”  The fifth myth: 5. America spies on China, too, so what can we complain about? Chinese officials portray their cou...

Although most Supreme Court watchers are focused on the two gay marriage cases to be argued before the Court on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week (NB: I signed the brief submitted by former Republican o...

Over at the graphical Drawnward blog, Caitlin Fitz Gerald has figured out an interesting way of illustrating our increasingly polarized attitudes over drones. She typed "drones are" into Google and grabb...

Both the New York Times and Washington Post are reporting that U.S. and Afghan officials have resolved the dispute over the transfer of authority over the Detention Facility at Parwan to Afghanistan.

The WSJ has a story (behind paywall, I think) about the CIA “expanding its role in the campaign against the Syrian regime by feeding intelligence to select rebel fighters to use against government forces...

My wife and I live on Capitol Hill.  Every morning we go for a walk.  Today, at 9 AM, as we were coming up the Hill we passed the Supreme Court ....

. . . perhaps supplies a mid-day Moment of Zen.  I refer to 577 N.E. 2d 926 (Ill. Ct. App. 1991).  You may know the case by its title, In Re: Marriage of Drone.  Appellate Court of Illinois,Fifth Distri...