Don't let it ever be said that the D.C. Circuit always rules against detainees. Today, a three-judge panel ruled kept Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman Al Bahlul’s military commission appeal alive--likely against ...

[Note: a reader responded that I missed the point that an important point about the underlying BIJ report, one that puts the "A Question of Legality" component of the report in a different light.

In two earlier posts I’ve focused on some of the particular issues that may arise during the Senate’s consideration of a comprehensive cybersecurity bill.  The focus on the Senate is apt, inasmuch as Sen...

Brian Jenkins of RAND sharply criticizes the NDAA's detention provisions in this short piece at Foreign Affairs.

Paul Stephan, the John C. Jeffries, Jr.

The report to which I linked earlier has several pieces accompanying it.

The London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism has reported before on civilian casualties in drone strikes, but this new report has a twist: It is alleging that "The CIA’s drone campaign in Pakistan...

Russia and China today vetoed a proposed UNSC Resolution (stories here and here) that would have condemned the abuses in Syria, demanded their cessation, required Syria to give free rein to League of Ara...

Interesting story in Foreign Policy by Aaron Zelin of the Jihadology blog reporting that Abu Musab al-Suri, the theoretician of leaderless jihad, may have been freed from prison in Syria. Al-Suri is the ...

Memo to any and all D.C. Circuit judges. Please note in Steve's post earlier about the Fourth Circuit's Al Shimari argument the second bullet-pointed sentence: "The (long) oral argument audio is availab...