I want to pile on to Ben's post in defense of NCTC nominee Matt Olsen.  Ben notes that some are intimating that Matt somehow is soft on terrorism because the GTMO Review Task Force concluded that some ex...

An important and interesting indictment issued today (see here for the pdf), in the Eastern District of Virginia. Emerson Begolly, an American citizen from Pennsyvlania (who already was under arrest aft...

I was afraid that the nomination of Matthew Olsen to head NCTC would head in this direction.

In response to my post yesterday about looming habeas litigation alleging that the U.S.

An article today in The Nation, by Jeremy Scahill, alleges that the CIA operates a proxy detention facility in Mogadishu (the article also alleges a CIA-sponsored training operation for Somali government...

The European Court of Human Rights ("ECHR") yesterday released two judgments regarding the British military's alleged violation, in Iraq, of international human rights law. In the first case, Al-Skeini ...

Isn't this interesting....  In a case titled United States v. Kaziu (E.D.N.Y.

Well, this is timely.  The Journal of National Security Law & Policy has just published this 104-page article from David Kris (who recently stepped down as the AAG for the National Security Division at D...

Bobby has already noted that the administration's handling of the Warsame case would not have been possible had either the suspect set foot in Guantanamo Bay under current law or if pending congressional...

As Bobby notes, the recently announced criminal prosecution of Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame, captured overseas almost three months ago by U.S. military forces, could be an important test of an emerging hybri...

This is, I think, a big deal. Hot on the heels of the fascinating testimony last week from Admiral McRaven and General Allen regarding disposition options for terrorism suspects captured overseas but out...