Tom Malinowski of Human Rights Watch writes in with the following comments in response to my recent post on Human Rights Watch's new allegations of water boarding by the CIA:I’m shocked that you’re shock...

Details available from Skating on Stilts -- HT: Stewart Baker.  I'll have some analysis and thoughts later this weekend.

I have largely suspended my campaign of fact-checking New York Times editorials, but this one is too good to pass up. In his opinion the other day on counsel access issues at Guantanamo, Judge Royce Lamb...

The State Department has announced that it will, at long last, designate the Haqqani Network as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.  Apart from the rhetorical value of the designation, the main consequence...

On September 4, Judge Naomi Buchwald of the Southern District of New York dismissed an Alien Tort Statute suit against President Mahinda Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka, on the basis of a Suggestion of Immunity f...

Shane Harris at Washingtonian has this snarky little piece about what Mark Owen aka the "squealing SEAL" can do to stay out of prison---since the Pentagon has decided that the book does, in fact, reveal ...

Chief Judge Royce Lamberth's order is here.

Speaking of reports I haven’t yet read, the Open Society Foundations has just released a report entitled “Remaking Bagram: The Creation of an Afghan Internment Regime and the Divide Over U.S. Detention P...

To the list of upcoming habeas cases in the court of appeals, add these: first, Khairkhwa v. Obama, which is set for argument on October 5th; and second, Hussain v.

Amy Zegart of the Hoover Institution, author of several terrific books on intelligence, now has a regular column on intelligence matters at Foreign Policy that should be of great interest to Lawfare read...