Kabul, Monday, November 15, 2010 -- Jack Goldsmith invited me more than two months ago to write in this space about our military’s involvement in efforts to build the rule of law in Afghanistan. In his i...

(By Benjamin Wittes, Jack Goldsmith, and Robert Chesney) We are thrilled to be joined this week by a guest blogger: Brigadier General Mark Martins. General Martins commands the Rule of Law Field Force--...

I assume that TSA’s intrusive patdowns are not cost-effective, that some TSA employees will abuse the new body scanners, and that the TSA on the whole focuses too much on “security theater” and not enoug...

Responding to my earlier post objecting to CCR's statement on the Ghaliani verdict, David Remes--one of the key Guantanamo habeas lawyers--wrote me a very interesting letter. It is interesting, in my vie...

Rounding out the public merits briefs in Al Warafi v. Obama, today the petitioner's public reply brief became available.  Below we link to the brief, the other two public merits briefs, and Chief Judge L...

Many of us have been eagerly anticipating the revised edition of DOD’s Law of War Manual.  Yesterday, Hays Parks delivered an address to the ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security breakfast ...

There has been a lot of debate about whether the result in the Ghailani trial would have been different in a military commission--and specifically about whether a witness Judge Kaplan excluded on grounds...

Over at the New York Times Room for Debate forum, Andy McCarthy, Orin Kerr, Diane Marie Aman, and I are engaged in an exchange of views about what lessons if any to draw from the Ghailani verdict.  So fa...

Jack and I have written this oped in the Washington Post on the Ghailani verdict. It begins: The Obama administration's critics are missing the point on Ahmed Ghailani. Their reaction to his acquittal th...

In my post earlier today concerning CCR's terrible statement on the Ghalani verdict, I noted that Daphne Eviatar of Human Rights First had seemed to endorse it on Twitter and wondered if HRF really meant...

(Benjamin Wittes & Robert Chesney) Debra Burlingame, a co-director of Keep America Safe and the sister of September 11 pilot Charles Burlingame III, sent the following in response to our post on Ghailan...