As Raff notes, the Washington Post has an editorial this week drawing attention to the important case of Ali Mussa Daqduq, the Lebanese Hezbollah commander who entered Iraq to participate in the insurgen...

A grand jury yesterday returned an indictment in the case of Naser Abdo, the guy recently arrested in connection with an alleged bomb plot in relation to Killeen (the same guy who shouted “Major Nidal Ha...

Earlier we posted Ramzi Kassem's criticism of commentary from Ben and Tom Joscelyn concerning the al-Alwi case.  Tom has asked us to share the following response: Ramzi Kassem is bothered by the use of t...

Emerson Begolly pled guilty today, ending what would otherwise likely have been a very interesting First Amendment case involving the constitutionality of charging solicitation based on online incitement...

I was trying to formulate my mixed feelings about the Vance and Doe decisions when I received the following email from a Lawfare reader.

Josh Gerstein at the Politico beat me to the punch with a point I have been meaning to make since looking at the Seventh Circuit's Vance decision yesterday: The viability of civil cases against former of...

Professor Ramzi Kassem of CUNY Law, who serves as counsel for GTMO detainee Moath al-Alwi, takes issue with an earlier post on this blog concerning the al-Alwi case.  He has asked us to share the followi...

Only days after a U.S. District Court in Washington allowed to proceed a suit by a U.S. citizen who alleged that he had been detained and tortured by U.S. forces in Iraq, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals...

As you may recall, federal prosecutors in July charged Emerson Begolly with offenses including (i) solicitation based on online posts encouraging readers to attack Americans and (ii) the provision of ins...

U.S. involvement in Mexico's struggle against violent drug-trafficking organizations has deepened recently, according to Ginger Thompson's piece in the New York Times today: When violence spiked last yea...

Josh Gerstein of Politico is reporting: The Justice Department is warning a federal appeals court not to disclose classified information about the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program...

Here is the July 29 opinion in which Judge Brinkema explains why NYT reporter James Risen will not have to testify, in the Jeffrey Sterling leak prosecution, about whether Sterling was Risen’s source for...