Earlier this week, Judge James Pohl issued a new docketing order in U.S. v. Mohammed et al.    Some twenty-five motions will be under consideration at the commission's next session, which will commence o...

The question of when an armed conflict is underway for purposes of triggering the Geneva Conventions and other relevant law of war is not in principle difficult in the case inter-state international arme...

Gabor Rona of Human Rights First writes in with the following comments in response to my brief post of yesterday directing readers' attentions to Captain Patrick McCarthy's testimony at Khadr's sentencin...

Reviewed by Amy Sennett Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power, by David E. Sanger (Crown 2012)

Over at the Weekly Standard, Thomas Jocelyn of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies has this piece on the repatriation to Canada of Omar Khadr. Jocelyn is angry over the myths the international left...

Or, at least, that's what CTV News is reporting: After years of detention at the U.S.

Most of the press coverage of the Lawfare Drone Smackdown has focused, understandably enough, on the FAA's intervention in the event. In this post, however, I want to focus on some of the lessons of the ...

For those following Section 11 of the STOCK Act, this afternoon President Obama signed S. 3625, which delays until December 8 the dangerous and short-sighted requirement in Section 11 of the STOCK Act th...

You can’t make this stuff up.

Jack linked yesterday to this Charlie Savage story about this internal Romney campaign draft memo urging a full-throated embrace of “enhanced interrogation”---written a year ago by Romney’s “national sec...