From London24, which bills itself as "London for Londoners," we learn that "Ex-Guantanamo Detainee from East Ham Attacked Traffic Warden": Tarek Dergoul, of Holland Road, East Ham, was in a bicycle shop ...

In a conversation several years ago about what was then simply a hypothesized US military exit from Afghanistan, a friend told me, think of the CIA as the French Foreign Legion.  My friend meant by that ...

Writing over at Forbes, Pepperdine law professor Gregory McNeal has this thoughtful piece about the President's policy directive. It contains some interesting ruminations on the breadth of some of the wa...

On February 29, Judge Kollar-Kotelly of the District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed a lawsuit brought under the Torture Victim Protection Act against President Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka, based...

Over at The Atlantic, Andrew Cohen offers this analysis of President Obama's implementation procedures for Section 1022 of the NDAA.

In her news roundup for last Friday, Ritika briefly mentioned that a drone strike had killed four al-Shabab militants in Somalia.  The New York Times had also cursorily mentioned the strike in this shor...

While the experience is fresh, I thought I'd share some reflections on this morning's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Due Process Guarantee Act.

Raffaela earlier posted the President's implementation procedures for Section 1022 of the NDAA--that is, the not-so-mandatory military detention provision. I have only had a chance to read it over quickl...

The narrow question presented in the Kiobel v.

There's been a lot of buzz in the press on the plea bargain reached between Majid Khan and the prosecution in his Military Commission case--and a lot of it has focused on the mere four years before Khan ...