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A Note on Commissions Coverage
Just in time for next week's motions hearing in United States v. -
My Own Personal Moment of Zen
I received the following email just now--the first time in my life, and I suspect the last, that I ever been confused with a certain blogger over at Salon.com: From: Lucas Vazquez To: wittes.lawfare@gma... -
Gabor Rona Also Comments on Mark Mazzetti, The Drone Zone, & Geoffrey Corn and Kenneth Anderson's Posts
Gabor Rona, international legal director of Human Rights First and esteemed commenter on several Lawfare posts, sends us this further comment on the Lawfare discussion around Mark Mazzett's New York Time... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The Washington Post has this ominous series entitled "Zero Day" on the threat in cyberspace. -
The Washington Post on the Abu Omar Case---And Its Consequences
This is a wonderful piece of journalism. The Washington Post's Ian Shapira today has a long feature on one of the CIA officers convicted in Italian courts for the kidnapping and rendition of radical Egyp... -
Defense Objects to August Hearing in the 9/11 Case
Another development in commissions-land, apart from al-Qosi’s completion of his sentence and landing back in Sudan: the Miami Herald’s Carol Rosenberg also informs us (and the docket shows) that the 9/11... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Let's begin with news of released terrorists. The Miami Herald reports, as does Bobby, that Ibrahim al Qosi--Osama bin Laden's occasional driver and self-confessed Al Qaeda operative--was repatriated to... -
A New Battle Over GTMO Attorney Access
I received the following email from human rights lawyer David Remes about a filing he and his colleagues just made on Monday on behalf of his Guantanamo client Yasein Khasem Mohammad Esmail. Esmail lost ... -
Al Qosi Transferred Out of GTMO to Sudan, Upon Completion of Sentence
Now here is a rare sight…a transfer out of GTMO, in this case made possible by the individual’s completion of his plea-based military commission sentence. From DOD’s press release: Detainee Transfer Ann... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The #2 most read story on the Washington Post's website is this gem on an April crash in Mali that killed three U.S. Special Ops soldiers and three Moroccan women. -
The Draft, the Constitutional Militia, and the Most Important Supreme Court NSL Case You (Probably) Haven't Heard Of...
According to various media reports, General Stanley McChrystal suggested late last month that the United States should bring back the draft if it goes to war again, arguing that the costs of the wars in ... -
Cohen and Judge Young On Bringing a Federal Court to GTMO for the 9/11 Case
Speaking of national security issues that seemed to have dropped off of the public’s radar screen, this headline beckons the reader to an article in The Atlantic, written by Andrew Cohen and posted over ...
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