Military commission accused Ali Hamza Ahmad Sulaiman al-Bahlul has submitted his response to the government's petition for rehearing by the full D.C.

Ibrahim Suleiman Adnan Adam Harun (aka Spin Ghul) is in custody in Brooklyn, facing an array of federal court charges stemming from alleged al Qaeda activities in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Nigeria betwe...

Ben writes that it is the “political reality” that “any president is going to feel obliged to maintain counterterrorism on offense,” i.e., counterterrorism through military means, “and Congress—whining, ...

It’s quickly becoming apparent that we and Jack appear to be talking past each other on the merits of the Chesney/Goldsmith/Waxman/Wittes (CGWW) proposal for a new framework statute for “extra-AUMF threa...

In the very first days after the horrific attacks of September 11, 2001, the Bush Administration asked Congress for broad statutory authorization to use military force to “deter and pre-empt any future a...

This could be a very big deal... Judge Susan Illston of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a 24-page opinion striking down 18 U.S.C.

Wednesday on the Senate floor, three senators spoke about the Obama administration's decision to prosecute, in a federal court, Osama bin Laden's son-in-law and Al Qaeda spokesman Sulaiman Abu Ghaith. Re...

Pretty big decision by the D.C. Circuit this morning, reversing the district court's dismissal of the ACLU's drone-related FOIA suit against the CIA on the ground that the Agency's "Glomar response" was ...

The more I reflect on last week's drone contretemps--and what effect the efforts of Senator Paul and his followers has had / may still have on U.S. policy--the more I have a profound and distressing sens...

I'm not at all happy that today's news out of upstate New York proves the point that Jack and I (and a cast of dozens) have tried to make about domestic use of lethal force, but it's worth pointing out t...