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An update: we've attended today's oral argument in Suleiman v. Obama, at the D.C. Circuit. For scheduling reasons, however, we'll have to delay posting a recap of the argument until Monday. Stay tuned ...
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Here is the prepared text, released by the White House, of John Brennan's speech at the Harvard Law School-Brookings conference now under way in Cambridge. I will post video, including of the very intere...
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Professor Blum welcomes the audience back and invites Professor Dan Meltzer to introduce John Brennan. Meltzer provides a short biography for Brennan and notes that he has been a key actor in shaping the...
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With a few moments to go before the HLS-Brookings Program on Law & Security’s inaugural event begins, I wanted to briefly introduce myself to the Lawfare community. As Ben mentioned in an earlier post, ...
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Kevin writes in with a final round of thoughts in his exchange with Peter in regards to the CMCR decision in al-Bahlul:
Peter continues to miss the central issue in al-Bahlul: namely, whether “any of the...
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Beginning this afternoon, the Harvard Law School-Brookings Project on Law and Security will host its inaugural event: "Law, Security, and Liberty after 9/11: Looking to the Future." It will take place at...
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It looks like I missed a habeas decision a few weeks ago. According to a docket entry of which I only became aware this morning, federal district Judge Royce Lamberth has ruled on the remand in the case ...
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Charlie Savage has a story about a dispute between DOD General Counsel Jeh Johnson and State Legal Advisor Harold Koh over the scope of the president’s legal authority to target members of al Qaeda-affil...
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More than a month ago, U.S. District Judge Henry Kennedy denied the habeas petition of a Guantanamo detainee named Fadhel Hussein Saleh Hentif (ISN 259). The opinion was classified at the time, but has n...
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The next round in the Margulies-Heller exchange (here and here) comes from Peter:
Thanks to Kevin for his very thoughtful response. I share Kevin’s wariness about making mere membership a wa...
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The Associated Press (via The Washington Post) reports that Tunisia is sending a mission to the United States to convince the U.S. to release the five Tunisians who are still being detained in Guantanam...
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The briefing in Alsabri v.
