Peter Margulies of Roger Williams University School of Law writes in with the following response to David Cole's recent article on the Tarek Mehanna case: While David Cole’s passionate defense of the Fir...

So, now that Ben, Jack, and Bobby have officially given me a license to blog more broadly, I wanted to expand my attention (and that of Lawfare readers) to important legal issues involving homeland secur...

On Wednesday the House Homeland Security Committee marked up the Lungren cybersecurity proposal.  The details are reported here and are difficult to piece together.  In so far as one can tell, the Chairm...

Georgetown law professor David Cole has this disturbing article in the New York Review of Books Blog on the Tarek Mehanna case. I have not followed this case carefully in the district court, but this art...

So Charlie Savage is reporting over at the New York Times: The transfer [of the two Uighurs] leaves 169 detainees at the prison in Cuba, but the Obama administration notified Congress several days ago th...

... El Salvador. [I've just changed the title to reflect the fact that other Uighur detainees still remain at GTMO].  From DOD's press release: IMMEDIATE RELEASE No.     291-12 April 19, 2012

Over the past several weeks, I’ve written a number of blogs about the substance of the cybersecurity bills pending before Congress.  As the House moves to consider cyber legislation next week and as the ...

Was it clearly established in 2006-07 that GTMO detainees were entitled to the protections of the Fifth Amendment?  A district judge in Washington State thinks so, adding that it was clearly established ...

The government has filed its response to Abdulrahman Abdou Abou Al Ghaith Suleiman's  petition for rehearing en banc in the D.C. Circuit.

The House Homeland Security Committee has now released its own updated version of a cybersecurity bill.  The text is (Lungren Substitute April 2012).   This bill stands in pretty significant contrast to ...

A judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Washington in Seattle has dismissed a Bivens action by a former Guantanamo detainee against former Defense Secretary Bob Gates. Adel Hassan Hamad is...