Prosecutors at the ICC have determined that they lack jurisdiction to investigate crimes allegedly committed in Gaza, reasoning that Palestine does not constitute a "state" for purposes of Article 12 of ...

Transfer of the Detention Facility in Parwan (DFIP) from American to Afghan control has begun.  The first step?  Appointment of Maj. Gen.

Will Polish judges have the occasion to weigh in on the legality of non-criminal detention of asserted al Qaeda members?  Probably so.  It appears that Polish prosecutors have brought charges against the...

Last week, we brought you the first sets of filings in Moath Hamza Ahmed Al Alwi's petition for a writ of certiorari.

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Greg Miller of the Washington Post has this excellent profile of Roger, the enigmatic head of the CIA Counterterrorism Center and a principle architect of the drones program.

Earlier this week I published a piece on the Foreign Policy page that defended the legal infrastructure for the Obama’s administration’s targeted killing program.  At the end I made the following proposa...

An administration official sends in the following in response to Andy Worthington's critique of the DNI's recidivism numbers: How I wish he were right.  But he isn’t.   The DNI numbers usefully distingu...

British journalist Andy Worthington offers this critique of the recent DNI report on Guantanamo recidivism--and of the press coverage of the report.

No commentary necessary: Could The Use Of Flying Death Robots Be Hurting America's Reputation Worldwide?

The more I think about Attorney General Holder's defense of targeted killings in his speech @ Northwestern last Monday--and the various reactions thereto--the more confused I become. To be sure, this con...