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For all those law students---and others---in the Washington area interested in helping us build the Lawfare Wiki Document Library, come on over to Georgetown Law (Room 206 in McDonough) this Friday to ta...
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John Brennan, nominated by President Obama to become the next CIA director, will apparently face some tough questioning from Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) at his Senate confirmation hearings (reportedly set f...
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My excitement over Shane Harris's new blog, Dead Drop, provides a catalyst for an action I have been meaning to take for some time: creating an automated page on Lawfare for outside news feeds of particu...
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Aaaaand . . . I’m back! Minus a few wisdom teeth---and with a lot more Thai food in my belly. But Raffaela’s partisans need not weep; she will alternate with me covering national security news and analys...
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We refrained last week from expressing much opinion on the decisions by both Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins and by the Justice Department in the Al Bahlul case concerning how to handl...
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Current events in Africa illustrate the unintended and sometimes-self-defeating effects of humanitarian efforts on that continent.
First, France’s military action against Islamist insurgents in Mali rai...
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With some hesitancy at the sense of shameless self-promotion it necessarily entails, I am very pleased to to announce today that my book Cyber Warfare: How Conflicts in Cyberspace are Challenging Americ...
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Last week saw several new developments in the Bradley Manning case. Prosecutors announced on Wednesday that they intend to offer evidence that Osama bin Laden received some of the classified information ...
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Following up on Ben's Death Star White House denial, we must note the response of the Air Force General Counsel's Twitter account. And I query over at Opinio Juris whether one day the Administration's pr...
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A few weeks ago, I linked to this amusing petition on the White House web site for the United States "to secure funding and resources, and begin construction on a Death Star by 2016." The White House pro...
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Further to Ben's post on Jennifer Daskal's NYT Guantanamo op-ed today, over at Opinio Juris I comment on a different part of the op-ed. Ben refers in part to reasons Jen offers why a transfer of Guantan...
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The meeting between Presidents Obama and Karzai today appears to have produced an agreement that will revive the process of shutting down U.S. detention operations in Afghanistan. As reported in the Wal...
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From the Military Commissions' website, we learn that the upcoming hearing inUnited States v. Al-Nashiri will be postponed:
Pursuant to a request by defense, the military judge has rescheduled the motion...
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Lest you forget, today marks the nationwide release of "Zero Dark Thirty." Surely you won't miss that.
Ben already posted about Jen Daskal's New York Times op-ed. Jen argues against closing the Guantan...
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As I discuss in my forthcoming book, International Law in the U.S. Legal System, regardless of whether customary international law has the status of self-executing federal law, it can play an important r...
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This is very exciting: Shane Harris has a new blog: Dead Drop, a "blog about national security and Washington." Shane, for those readers unfamiliar with his work, is a national security features writer o...
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To commemorate (if that's even the right word) the eleventh anniversary of the detention of non-citizens at Guantánamo, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Laura Poitras (whose work includes, among others, The Oat...
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Jennifer Daskal---who is a fellow at Georgetown law these days, after serving as NSD and working for Human Rights Watch---has a genuinely brave oped in the New York Times this morning entitled "Don't Clo...
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Fresh from the Guantanamo security scrub: an amended docketing order for the upcoming hearing, late this month, in United States v. Mohammed et. al.
Judge James Pohl has set forth 23 motions for argum...
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In this special episode of the Lawfare Podcast, Military Commission Chief Prosecutor Brigadier General Mark Martins discusses his decision to recommend dropping conspiracy charges against Khalid Sheikh M...