In the past couple of days, both Jack and I have called for greater transparency concerning the legal rationale for the drones program.

"God bless Ben," Spencer Ackerman writes, "he's really trying hard to think through what the rules ought to be for killing an American citizen accused of terrorist membership." My effort in that regard, ...

CNN is reporting that Haji Mali Khan, the senior commander of the Afghan Haqqani insurgent group, was captured in a joint Afghan-NATO operation on Tuesday (the announcement of his capture was delayed unt...

On Tuesday, lawyers for Abdulrahman Abdou Abou Alghaith Suleiman filed this letter with the Clerk of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.  The letter replies to an ear...

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Interesting Charlie Savage story this morning about a newly released FBI document detailing rules for inclusion of terrorist suspects on watch lists. Of particular interest to Savage is the fact that tho...

This past Sunday, police in Birmingham, England, made a series of arrests in connection with a "homegrown-but-trained-abroad" terrorism plot.  Irfan Nasser and Irfan Khalid allegedly traveled to Pakistan...

I have written previously about the pros and cons of the military commission option for Ali Mussa Daqduq, a member of Hezbollah whom we have been holding in military custody in Iraq for some period based...

An update on the Suleiman case: on Friday, the government filed this letter, which sought to clarify the government's views of three issues that were raised at oral argument on September 16. First and m...

A Second Circuit panel has affirmed, in United States v.Kassar (2d Cir. Sep. 21, 2011), the conviction of three defendants who were convicted on charges stemming from a sting operation involving a faux e...