I received the following email just now--the first time in my life, and I suspect the last, that I ever been confused with a certain blogger over at Salon.com: From: Lucas Vazquez To: wittes.lawfare@gma...

Some time ago I began an answer to Jack Goldsmith on why I thought cybersecurity regulation was the wrong answer to our current cyber problems.  Other commitments, including paying clients!, got in the w...

Jessica Herrera-Flanigan certainly seems to think so and, honestly, I can't disagree with her.  From the article: Even if cybersecurity legislation does get through the Senate, there is not a clear path ...

As the prospects for real cybersecurity legislation seem to fade, this may be a product whose time has already come and gone.  Nevertheless, for those who want a handy chart outlining (in far too brief a...

Congratulations to Scott L. Silliman and William B. Pollard III, both of whom the Senate last night confirmed to be judges of the U.S. Court of Military Commission Review.  Both men must formally be swor...

Breaking: earlier today, the Senate Armed Services Committee approved its two pending nominees for judgeships on the Court of Military Commission Review - William Pollard, and Professor Scott L. Silliman...

As Raffaela noted earlier today, there appears to be some momentum gaining for the proposed Whitehouse-Kyle compromise legislation on cybersecurity -- at least if a letter from Senators Snowe and Warner ...

Steve and Ben are having an interesting exchange about an important question: whether the DC Circuit's caselaw in GTMO habeas proceedings has produced a set of substantive and procedural rules at varianc...

Raff pointed earlier to a USA Today op-ed by Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas), the Vice Chairman of the House Armed Services committee.

I have resisted linking to the latest updates to Bobby, Larkin, and my paper--The Emerging Law of Detention 2.0: The Guantanamo Habeas Cases as Lawmaking--because the redesign of the Brookings web site t...

U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest has issued this order clarifying the broad scope of the injunction in her earlier opinion striking down Section 1021 of the NDAA. The order does not rule on the gove...