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Are Times a'Changin'?
I just had a meeting with a thoughtful European journalist who was working on a September 11 10th anniversary feature. Much to my surprise, she did not want to talk about Guantanamo, or interrogation, or... -
Matt Dahl on Cybercrime and the Executive Order on Transnational Criminal Organizations
Matt Dahl is a 2009 graduate of the University of Richmond School of Law who works on legal and policy issues for a cybersecurity company in Virginia. We are pleased to welcome his guest post, which dis... -
Warrick on the CIA's War (III): Against Which Groups Are We Fighting?
Another interesting legal issue touched upon in Joby Warrick's The Triple Agent concerns the difficulty of defining the set of groups or networks against which force lawfully may be used. This issue has... -
Regarding the AP's Story on NYPD Domestic Intelligence Collection
The AP's Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman have a long story out today, focused on the NYPD's Intelligence Division & Counter-Terrorism Bureau. The story paints NYPD as having developed an unchecked intellig... -
Job Announcement
This should be of interest to a great many Lawfare readers: Experienced Attorney United States Department of Justice National Security Division Office of Law and Policy Appellate Attorney GS-15 -
Motion Papers and Oral Argument Transcript from Meshal v. Higgenbotham
In November 2009, the ACLU brought a suit on behalf of an American citizen--Amir Meshal--against two FBI agents and two unnamed officials, alleging the following: that he went to Somalia in 2006, that he... -
US to Delay Transfer of Detention Center in Parwan
In prior posts such as this one, I've noted that the United States eventually will transfer control over the Detention Center in Parwan to Afghan authorities. The most recent goal for that transfer was ... -
Warrick on the CIA's War (II): Proportionality and Drone Strikes
The discussions of drone strike decision-making in Warrick's The Triple Agent sheds light on the proportionality debate in several respects. First, the book is shot through with references to the conce... -
Warrick on the CIA's War: The 2008 Shift from Drone-Strikes-by-Permission to Drone-Strikes-with-Notification
Joby Warrick (of the Washington Post) provides a number of fascinating nuggets regarding CIA activities in Pakistan in his just-published book The Triple Agent: The al-Qaeda Mole Who Infiltrated the CIA... -
Guantanamo Comes to Wellington, New Zealand
Stuff.co.nz, a New Zealand news web site, usefully informs us that: It's not quite corporal punishment, but Wellington [New Zealand] High School pupils have had a first-hand taste of Guantanamo Bay. Thr... -
DOJ Motion to Dismiss Libya Lawsuit
Yesterday the Justice Department filed a memorandum (h/t Charlie Savage) in support of its motion to dismiss the lawsuit by ten members of Congress against President Obama over the Libya operation. The ... -
David Remes on Ricin and other Matters
Stepping out of his persona as a Guantanamo habeas lawyer, David Remes writes in with the following comments in response to my recent post on fears that Al Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula is working on ...
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