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This just in from defense lawyers in the 9/11 case:
A statement regarding the government's changed position on the handling of statements made by the accused in United States v.
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Captain Brittany Warren, a US Army JAG who has just completed her JD at GW Law School, has an article appearing in the Military Law Review (Vol. 212, 2012, p. 133, link is to jagcnet.army.mil), "The Case...
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Yesterday, we promised to be in attendance during today's argument session in Khairkhwa v. Obama
And this morning, yours truly sat through two standard-issue D.C.
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Dawinder S. Sidhu of the University of New Mexico School of Law writes in with the following comments on the fallout form the shooting at the Sikh Temple at Oak Creek, Wisconsin.
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Anton Metlitsky, counsel in the Appellate practice of O’Melveny & Myers LLP, writes in with the following comments on the Kiobel oral argument. Metlitsky represents the Rio Tinto Group in its pending cer...
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A reminder that tomorrow morning will see argument before the D.C. Circuit in the case of Khairkhwa v. Obama. In short, the case concerns a Taliban functionary who claims to have played a civilian---not...
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I am sometimes asked what academic journals I would recommend for research in terrorism and political violence studies from an interdisciplinary social science perspective. Two stand out, although unfor...
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Anonymous senior European officials said yesterday that a proposal for U.N. Security Council approval is in the works to authorize a Western-backed African force to battle with AQIM in Mali. The U.S.
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As many Lawfare readers know, John Witt has recently published a book called Lincoln’s Code. The book is about, among many other things, the history of the laws of war in the United States, especially i...
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Gabor Rona of Human Rights First sent me the following note in response to my posts responding to his comments on my comments on Thomas Jocelyn's and Captain Patrick McCarthy's comments on Omar Khadr.
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Earlier this week, the Supreme Court decided not to review the case of Suleiman v. Obama. No surprise there; the justices hardly seem to wish to wade into detention issues these days.
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Lawfarers, here are two developments in the 9/11 case.
The first is this unusual piece of procedural news, brought to us by The Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg:
Rat droppings and mold are health hazards ...
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As Matt already noted, the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations published a scathing, highly critical report about DHS’s counterterrorism fusion centers.
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So we learn from ABC's Jake Tapper, who in turn quotes from Mark Bowden's forthcoming book, "The Finish," about the bin Laden raid:
If Osama bin Laden had surrendered to the Navy SEALs, President Obama w...
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Now available on the military commissions docket: this motion, filed earlier this week by a coalition of media organizations as "press intervenors." In the just-unsealed filing, the group--which includ...
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A few weeks ago I posed the following questions in relation to the Constitution Project's report on state and major urban area intelligence Fusion Centers, which DHS set up and funded after 9/11:
One rea...
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Earlier today I argued that a Romney administration would not pursue significantly different counterterrorism policies than a second Obama administration. Below I note three caveats to this claim, and I...
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Further to Bobby's and my posts on news reports of US government discussions around ways to address groups such as AQIM taking root in Africa - including discussion of US military and intelligence advise...
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Today marks the five-month anniversary of the oral arguments before the D.C. Circuit in United States v.
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Last week Ben argued that, despite the Romney Team memo on interrogation and Romney’s promise to use “enhanced” interrogation techniques, a President Romney would not change the Obama interrogation polic...