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More from Tom Ricks on JAGs and the Civ-Mil Relationship
Over at Best Defense, Tom Ricks has another post on the role of JAGs in the civ-mil relationship. I'd given him some recommendations previously in response to his first post and my call to readers for s... -
More Transparency Improvements for the Military Commission System: The New Website
As we have emphasized on this site quite often, the legitimacy of the military commission system has been hobbled in the past by a lack of transparency in its proceedings. There was very good news on th... -
FBI Watch List Rules
Interesting Charlie Savage story this morning about a newly released FBI document detailing rules for inclusion of terrorist suspects on watch lists. Of particular interest to Savage is the fact that tho... -
A Comparative Look at Preventive Criminal Charges in the US and UK: The Latest Homegrown-but-Trained-Abroad Case
This past Sunday, police in Birmingham, England, made a series of arrests in connection with a "homegrown-but-trained-abroad" terrorism plot. Irfan Nasser and Irfan Khalid allegedly traveled to Pakistan... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
In the federal case brought by Judicial Watch in May to release photos depicting Osama bin Laden's death, the federal government has filed several documents in support of its argument against release. Jo... -
A Move Toward Military Commissions Transparency--And a Promise
Raffaela linked earlier today to the Weekly Standard article in which the new military commissions chief prosecutor, Brig. General Mark Martins, announced some important new steps towards transparency in... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Let's start with some big military commissions news. Mark Martins, the new Chief Prosecutor for Military Commissions has proposed that Guantanamo cases be broadcast on a 40-second delay to sites in the U... -
The ICRC Has Launched a Blog
And a rather snazzy-looking one at that. It's called Intercross and its first post, by Simon Schorno, says it is about "the plight of children, women and men affected by armed conflict and armed violence... -
Charlie Savage on Legal Policy Inside the Bush and Obama Administrations
Charlie Savage of the New York Times has a long essay, available on Amazon (for 99 cents), called Power Wars: Unmasking National Security Legal Policy Deliberations Under Bush & Obama. The essay is adap... -
Government Requests Rehearing in Vance
The government has moved the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals to rehear en banc the Vance case, which last month allowed a suit to proceed against former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld by U.S. citizen... -
A Military Commission for Daqduq in the US?
I have written previously about the pros and cons of the military commission option for Ali Mussa Daqduq, a member of Hezbollah whom we have been holding in military custody in Iraq for some period based... -
Post-Argument Letter from the Government in Suleiman v. Obama
An update on the Suleiman case: on Friday, the government filed this letter, which sought to clarify the government's views of three issues that were raised at oral argument on September 16. First and m...
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