The hearing gets under way at 9:23, when Military Judge Col. James Pohl, looking resplendent in his jet-black robes, takes his seat--authority emanating from his very fingers--and calls the military comm...

The Smallwood theater at Fort Meade is unusually crowded with press today, but not with the usual suspects--who are all down at Guantanamo itself for the big event. Wells and I are joined by Swedish pres...

A gentle reminder - not that you really needed one, being a devoted Lawfare reader and all  - Ben and I will be live-blogging tomorrow's much-anticipated arraignment in United States v. KSM et al.  Accor...

Below is a recap of yesterday’s oral argument before the D.C. Circuit in Hamdan v. United States.  As for key takeaways, you’ll find Steve’s breakdown here, and my two cents' worth here. Again, it is an...

As I noted on Tuesday, Adis Medunjanin was convicted this week in connection with the NYC subway bombing plot.  Previously, he had moved to suppress inculpatory statements he’d made after his arrest, and...

Based on a longer article I’d written on this topic, the Hoover Institution published today my essay “Policing Terrorism”, in its institutional journal, Defining Ideas. Here’s how it begins: In recent mo...

Wells and I will be at Fort Meade for the KSM arraignment Saturday morning. In the meantime, I have written an oped in the Washington Post setting the stage and discussing the pivotal importance of this ...

Having disgraced myself by missing the argument in Alsabri, I figured I should at least read the opinion. It is a mark of how far the D.C. Circuit has come in establishing the contours of the law of dete...

Yesterday I posted a lengthy response to Gabor Rona’s critique of the Brennan speech, and Gabor has now replied to my comments.  Alas, we seem to be speaking past one another in various ways (for example...

Both because of my own biases and because Wells is going to be posting more of a blow-by-blow at some point (on top of his initial reaction, which I basically share), I'll spare readers from a comprehens...

We’ll have a full recap of today’s oral argument in Hamdan v. United States up shortly.