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Information Sharing and the McCain Cybersecurity Bill
In an earlier post, I summarized the information sharing provisions of the Lieberman-Collins cybersecurity bill. In this post, I want to take the same summary approach to the newly introduced McCain bil... -
Does this Count as Guantanamo Recidivism?
From London24, which bills itself as "London for Londoners," we learn that "Ex-Guantanamo Detainee from East Ham Attacked Traffic Warden": Tarek Dergoul, of Holland Road, East Ham, was in a bicycle shop ... -
Peter Margulies on British Reform Proposals for the ECHR
Peter Margulies writes in with the following analysis of British proposals to reform the European Court of Human Rights: The European Court of Human Rights has increasingly become a tribunal pushing back... -
How Government Silence Undermines Terrorism Policies: Part II
Attorney General Eric Holder will apparently give a public address on Monday that will provide a fuller explanation and justification for the government's policies on targeted killings, including for the... -
A Response to Human Rights Watch and Human Rights First
I promised yesterday that I would have more to say about Andrea Prasow's comments on the fairness of the Majid Khan plea agreement after I had a chance to stew on them a bit. In the meantime, I have lear... -
A Major Address on the Law of Targeted Killing? AG Holder to Speak at Northwestern Law on Monday Afternoon
In late January, Daniel Klaidman reported that the administration was inclined to have Attorney General Holder give a major speech specifying additional details regarding the legal framework governing th... -
CIA, Drones and Proxy Forces, and the Exit from Afghanistan
In a conversation several years ago about what was then simply a hypothesized US military exit from Afghanistan, a friend told me, think of the CIA as the French Foreign Legion. My friend meant by that ... -
Peter Berkowitz on the Legal Rationale for a Preemptive Strike Against Iran
In an interview with Jeff Goldberg late last week, President Obama stated that a U.S. -
Human Rights Watch Responds
Yesterday, I posed a question to Human Rights Watch in response to some comments in the Washington Post by an official of the organization, Andrea Prasow. -
Lawfare Podcast Episode #5: Missy Cummings on Drones, Drones, Drones
Missy Cummings, Director of the Humans and Automation Laboratory and a professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT discusses robots on our battlefields. Cummings is a bit of a force of nature. -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Raffaela has retreated to an undisclosed location, so I will be your one-stop-shop for all things news and commentary for the next week. We begin, naturally, with stories that mention our own people. -
A Question for Human Rights Watch
In today's Washington Post, Peter Finn has an excellent story on the comparative leniency of sentencing in military commissions to date compared with sentencing in federal court. In it, he reports the fo...
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