Raff already flagged yesterday's filing of an amicus brief in support of the government in the Al Bahlul military commission appeal before the en banc D.C. Circuit by "former government officials, former...

I've developed a bit of a backlog of things to post--a regrettable function of a crushing work volume in some of my various other lives and the fact that Lawfare, as it grows, requires more and more day-...

Chris Woods, who until just recently used to spearhead the Covert Drone War investigation at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism in London, writes in with the following comments on my post from the ot...

A recent cluster of stories – on al Qaeda’s growth, dispersion, and resilience, on the USG’s increased use of surveillance drones outside of “hot war zones,” on the USG possibly 

Really stunning. Hat tip: Albert Lukban

On March 8, 2011, Saeed Bakhouch, an Algerian GTMO detainee also known as Razak Ali, noted an appeal of the District Court’s January 2011 denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus.  Oral argumen...

Today, the Brookings Institution released a lengthy paper my colleague Daniel Byman and I have been working on for some time, entitled "Tools and Tradeoffs: Confronting U.S. Citizen Terrorist Suspects Ab...

In his widely discussed May 23 speech at the National Defense University, President Obama acknowledged that “much of the criticism about drone strikes---at home and abroad---understandably centers on rep...

Well, it is not exactly being launched with fanfare, but it appears that the long-awaited Periodic Review Board (PRB) process is about to be relaunched at GTMO.  So reports Carol Rosenberg, here. Let me...

Despite the day (TGIF!), the weather (95 degrees and rising), and other developing national security news, the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse security checkpoint was brimming with people primed to hear ...

Tomorrow morning, Judge Rosemary Collyer of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia will hear arguments on the government's motion to dismiss in Al-Aulaqi v. Panetta. The lawsuit was filed l...

Judge Lewis Kaplan's excellent Second Circuit opinion in Hedges yesterday should end the controversy over whether the 2012 NDAA expands or merely codifies the government's AUMF detention authority---thou...