Two short items involving drug cartel violence in Mexico and the related issue of US cooperation with Mexican authorities in counter-cartel efforts. First, as readers presumably know, Mexico has just el...

The government has filed its opposition brief in United States v.

I have received a number of interesting responses to my post yesterday about the British institution of the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation. Clive Walker of the University of Leeds School o...

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...

Ben asks an interesting question about the effectiveness of the British independent reviewer.  I didn't have a chance to meet Mr.

The other day, David Anderson, the U.K.’s Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, dropped by Brookings to talk with me about legislative proposals in Britain for a Closed Material Proceeding in ci...

For those D.C.-area Lawfarers interested in continuing the conversation Ben, Bobby, and I had in June about Boumediene's legacy (or lack thereof), the Constitution Project is hosting what promises to be ...

A three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit (Judges Tatel, Garland and Griffith) has rejected the CIA's motion to remand in ACLU v.

Last week, Brookings published an interesting paper "A Vision for Homeland Security in the Year 2025," by Darrell West.  The paper is the result of a rather large session conducted at Brookings last Nove...

That's the word from The Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg.  She also reports that the sworn-but-never-referred military commission charges against Faiz al Kandari, one of two Kuwaitis still held at Guantan...

From the Blog of the Legal Times, we learn that the ACLU has filed its opposition to the CIA's motion to remand, in the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") appeal now awaiting oral argument before the D.C.