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...

I received the following email from human rights lawyer David Remes about a filing he and his colleagues just made on Monday on behalf of his Guantanamo client Yasein Khasem Mohammad Esmail. Esmail lost ...

Now here is a rare sight…a transfer out of GTMO, in this case made possible by the individual’s completion of his plea-based military commission sentence.  From DOD’s press release: Detainee Transfer Ann...

According to various media reports, General Stanley McChrystal suggested late last month that the United States should bring back the draft if it goes to war again, arguing that the costs of the wars in ...

Speaking of national security issues that seemed to have dropped off of the public’s radar screen, this headline beckons the reader to an article in The Atlantic, written by Andrew Cohen and posted over ...

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...