Former DHS policy official Paul Rosenzweig has this new contribution to a paper series published by the Hoover Institution's Task Force on National Security and Law--of which I am a member. The paper, en...

Scott Peterson and Payam Faramarzi at the Christian Science Monitor have an interview with an unnamed Iranian engineer who says that Iran took over the computer systems of the RQ-170 Sentinel UAV, cut of...

What an interesting day for the question of how to address cases involving participation in the insurgency in Iraq. Earlier today we learned that Ali Musa Daqduq, the last American military detainee in ...

Oh my.  Ali Mussa Daqduq, a Hezbollah agent held by the U.S. military for many years in Iraq and believed to have been responsible for an episode involving the capture, torture, and murder of a group of ...

You can read the detention-specific portions of the December 14th House debate on the conference report here. Here are some highlights: Congressman Alcee Hastings (D-FL)  presented a strident oppositio...

It may surprise some readers, but I find myself oddly attracted to the Due Process Guarantee Act--which Steve described last night. The bill is cast as a response to the NDAA detention authorization prov...

Well that was fast...

Last week, Nazul Gul and Adel Hassan Amad – both former Guantanamo detainees who were transferred by the United States to their home nations before their habeas petitions were resolved – sought a writ of...

The Senate just voted for final passage for the NDAA conference report (H.R. 1540). The vote was overwhelming: 86-to-13. All seven senators who voted against the Senate version earlier this month (S.1867...

Shane Bilsborough, a student at Pepperdine University, has this very interesting essay over at the Small Wars Journal on "Counterlawfare in Counterinsurgency." In opens: In recent years, something akin t...