Canadian forces may be largely on their way out of Afghanistan, but for a Kabul-based contingent focused on training Afghans, but the prospect that they might nonetheless in the position of capturing a p...

Some things are just too ridiculous to be anything other than true.

Whatever else one might say about the D.C. Circuit's jurisprudence in the Guantanamo litigation, it's certainly been a jobs program...

The New York Times's Scott Shane this morning has a very beautifully reported feature story about domestic prisons, law enforcement, and terrorism cases. It is a rich read, including some fascinating cor...

President Obama's chief counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, has given an extended interview to NPR on the administration's view of the NDAA's detainee affairs provision and its threat to veto the leg...

I bet you thought this would be a post about Ali Musa Daqduq.  But, no, this is about Faruq Khalil Muhammad 'Isa, who has been indicted in Brooklyn on charges of conspiring to kill U.S.

In a prior post surveying the impact of the Senate version of the NDAA bill (currently in conference negotiations), I emphasized that the Feinstein Amendment made clear that the NDAA did not alter, one w...

There's barely a true fact in it, but it's very funny:

First things first: Welcome aboard, Steve!  Now, to business: This afternoon, the National Security Council the "Strategic Implementation Plan for Empowering Local Partners to Prevent Violent Extremism ...

Thanks to Ben for the warm introduction, and to the entire Lawfare crew for letting me crash the party. I thought I'd jump into the fray on a bit of a tangent, albeit one that both directly and indirectl...