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Event Monday: Breaking the Judicial Nominations and Confirmations Logjam
The following information isn't national-security-related, but still may be of interest to many readers: Brookings will host an event Monday, "Breaking the Judicial Nominations and Confirmations Logjam.... -
Psy-ops Against Congress – Count Me as Skeptical
Michael Hastings – the journalist who brought down General Stanley McChrystal – has a new piece in Rolling Stone alleging that General William Caldwell, who is in charge of training Afghan security force... -
Signing Books at Politics and Prose
On Saturday, March 5 at 1:00 pm, I will be speaking about Detention and Denial at Politics and Prose in Washington D.C. The event announcement is available here. Readings at Politics and Prose have a spe... -
The Economist on Embracing Guantanamo
The Economist has run a thoughtful and interesting column on my idea that President Obama should embrace Guantanamo. The column contains a few factual errors. It attributes this argument to my book, Dete... -
Marc Thiessen Responds
The other day, in response to this column by Marc Thiessen suggesting that Obama should bring more high-value detainees to Guantanamo, I wondered whether Thiessen really understood the gravity of what he... -
John Dehn Responds to Raha Wala Regarding Military Commissions
A little while back I posted comments from Raha Wala (Human Rights First) concerning military commissions. Those comments have spurred the following response from John Dehn (West Point), which appears b... -
The Arrest of a Would-Be Bomber in Texas and the Limited Anticipatory Scope of Criminal Law in Lone Wolf Cases
* United States v. Aldawsari (N.D. Tex. Feb. -
Does the ICCPR Apply to Detention Ops in Afghanistan? Eviatar Replies and I Respond
Yesterday I drew attention to a piece by Daphne Eviatar (Human Rights First) concerning the DRB process for screening detainees in Afghanistan, emphasizing the following passage: Under international law,... -
Eviatar on the DRB process in Afghanistan
In a short piece published at Politico on Monday, Daphne Eviatar (Human Rights First) made a rather bold claim concerning the Detention Review Board process in Afghanistan: Under international law, a det... -
Eric Posner: The Threat of Lawfare is Overhyped
In a very interesting essay in the new National Interest, Eric Posner contends that the supposed threat of "lawfare" is much over-hyped. His concluding paragraph captures the broad outline of his argum... -
David Remes on the Scalise Amendment
Habeas lawyer David Remes writes with the following comments in response to my post yesterday objecting to the Scalise Amendment: You're right that Congress shouldn't bar Ambassador Dan Fried and his sta... -
New CRS Reports of Note
Thanks to Steven Aftergood of Secrecy News for linking to these new CRS reports: “Amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Set to Expire February 28, 2011,” February 10, 2011 (note that la...
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