Section 1022 of the Conference version of the NDAA carries forward section 1032 of the Senate version, which has been widely described as a mandatory military detention provision for a subset of detainab...

I am still digesting the new NDAA language, and I'm not yet ready to say how come out on it. It is, without question, significantly better than either the House or Senate bills. Yet some of its provision...

The conference report for the NDAA is now available. Subtitle D, entitled "Counterterrorism," begins on page 653 and runs through page 685. The conferees' explanation of their choices begins on page 158 ...

Canadian forces may be largely on their way out of Afghanistan, but for a Kabul-based contingent focused on training Afghans, but the prospect that they might nonetheless in the position of capturing a p...

Whatever else one might say about the D.C. Circuit's jurisprudence in the Guantanamo litigation, it's certainly been a jobs program...

The New York Times's Scott Shane this morning has a very beautifully reported feature story about domestic prisons, law enforcement, and terrorism cases. It is a rich read, including some fascinating cor...

President Obama's chief counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, has given an extended interview to NPR on the administration's view of the NDAA's detainee affairs provision and its threat to veto the leg...

I bet you thought this would be a post about Ali Musa Daqduq.  But, no, this is about Faruq Khalil Muhammad 'Isa, who has been indicted in Brooklyn on charges of conspiring to kill U.S.

In a prior post surveying the impact of the Senate version of the NDAA bill (currently in conference negotiations), I emphasized that the Feinstein Amendment made clear that the NDAA did not alter, one w...

There's barely a true fact in it, but it's very funny:

First things first: Welcome aboard, Steve!  Now, to business: This afternoon, the National Security Council the "Strategic Implementation Plan for Empowering Local Partners to Prevent Violent Extremism ...