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Yesterday the judge in the Bradley Manning trial found that the 9 months of solitary confinement he was subjected to was "more rigorous than necessary," and, as a result, credited 112 days toward a futur...
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Lawfare, the web's premier source for news and analysis in national security law, is seeking interested and highly motivated law students to help build Lawfare's emerging Wiki library. Successful candida...
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So begins this interesting opinion from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, in a habeas case brought by Guantanamo detainee Mohammed Morafa:
On a petition for a writ for habeas...
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...is available here. In a nutshell:
Hamdan II requires reversal of Bahlul’s convictions by military commission of providing material support for terrorism, conspiracy to commit war crimes, and solicita...
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From the Hedges files: attorneys for Senators McCain, Ayotte, and Graham yesterday submitted this reply brief in support of their motion to participate in oral argument before the Second Circuit. (The H...
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Published by WW Norton (2012)
Reviewed by Daniel Byman
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Apropos of Charlie Savage’s story (and Bobby’s follow-up) on the government's litigation tactics in Hamdan and al-Bahlul: assuming the material support and conspiracy charges in those cases indeed are to...
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In response to Charlie Savage's piece today concerning an interagency debate over whether to continue to argue for the viability of conspiracy and material support charges in the military commission syst...
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Micah Zenko of the Council on Foreign Relations has just published this important report on U.S. drones policy. I disagree with Zenko on some aspects of it, but for now I want to summarize several of his...
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Leading the news for Lawfarers: Charlie Savage's piece in the New York Times, about an ongoing debate in the Obama administration over whether it should drop the military commission cases against Salim H...
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According to Charlie Savage in today's New York Times, this is a question in hot interagency dispute this week. The basic concern of course is that (i) the D.C.
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I am delighted to announce that Ashley Deeks is joining Lawfare as our newest senior contributor. Astute readers will notice that this change is perhaps a bit less of a change than it may look, as Ashley...
