Like David Remes, but with different assumptions and for different reasons, I was disappointed with Senators Durbin and Feinstein’s op-ed purporting to offer a plan for closing Guantanamo.  As I’ve argue...

David Remes, the longtime GTMO defense lawyer, wrote in with comments on Senators Feinstein and Durbin’s op-ed in today’s L.A. Times entitled, “How to close Gitmo”: The oped is quite disappointing. In br...

"Does it really matter, from a legal perspective, whether the U.S.

So says the Washington Post.

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 

. . . coming up on Thursday before the Senate Armed Services Committee.

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...

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...

The opinion, which I've only now begun to skim, is here.  From the decision's opening paragraphs:  On December 31, 2011, President Obama signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal...

The Senate Commerce Committee recently began circulating a staff discussion draft of cybersecurity legislation.

Today's New York Times, brings a rich article by Nicole Perlroth and David Sanger on the growing market in zero-day exploits.  Zero-day exploits are previously unknown flaws in computer programming that ...

Raffaela has already posted on both the House of Representatives's and the Senate's versions of this year's NDAA--highlighting their differences with regards to Guantanamo detentions and transfers.