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Let's talk about something other than Israel potentially attacking Iran, shall we?
Manhattan district attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. "announced plans for the construction of a cybercrime lab, which will ce...
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In response to my inquiry about drones that could capture rather than kill ("Robot Rendition?"), Greg McNeal writes in with these very illuminating comments on the technological prospects.
It probably g...
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Lawfare readers will recall that in March the Supreme Court ordered the case of Kiobel v Royal Dutch Petroleum to be re-briefed and reargued to address the additional question of whether the Alien Tort S...
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This news -- that Iran is considering a lawsuit over Stuxnet -- is too perfect for words. Lawfare readers will have a field day: In what court? Under what theory? With what damages? How will they...
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This just in: the last words (for a few days, anyway) in the Guantanamo attorney-client access dispute now pending before Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S.
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The Hill's Carlo Munoz tells us that a Somali-born pirate will serve 12 life sentences in connection with the kidnapping, piracy, hostage-taking and murder of Americans last February off the coast of Oma...
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My old friend Naunihal Singh, a political science professor at Notre Dame University, has this very moving piece on The New Yorker's web page on the killings at the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin:
T...
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Last Wednesday, Judge James L. Pohl issued an amended docketing order in United States v.
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One of the many difficulties that arise when a state employs its military to conduct operations within its own borders is the question of whether alleged abuses committed by the military should be tried ...
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What looks to be the fifth Taliban attack by a man in an Afghan police officer uniform on NATO and Afghan forces took place this morning. No service members were killed, reports the AP.
Meanwhile, Afgha...
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The New York Times is running a "Room For Debate" exchange on the question of whether the threat from domestic hate groups is being overlooked.
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Our Drone takes a photo of of the team. That's my robotics genius grandson Ryan:
I understand In-Trade has us at 62 ....
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With a hat tip to Bobby, I wanted to flag that the Fourth Circuit on Friday upheld the conviction of Sean Brehm, a non-citizen convicted under the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act (MEJA) for an...
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Over at the Emptywheel blog, the estimable Ms. Wheel (aka Marcy Wheeler) has posted a transcribed excerpt of a recent Senate Judiciary Committee hearing dealing with Senator John Cornyn's proposal to com...
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Here's the opinion--from a panel consisting of Judges Merrick Garland and Karen LeCraft Henderson and Chief Judge David Sentelle. The opinion denying Obaydullah's Guantanamo habeas appeal is a per curiam...
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I've been away on business travel this past week and am headed off on vacation next week so blogging for me has been light. But one recent post caught my eye and motivated me to add a quick note:
My co...
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Late on a Friday afternoon, I take a break from other work in order to bring you the following food-for-thought:
We often think about the policy and legal issues that will arise when the jump is made fr...
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This just in - sort of. On Wednesday, Judge Leonie Brinkema denied John Kiriakou's motion to dismiss certain counts against him on vagueness and overbreadth grounds. Not at all surprising stuff, consid...
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It’s a light news day---as Fridays can sometimes be.
The Associated Press reports on developments in the case of alleged Fort Hood shooter, Maj. Nidal Hasan.
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As usual, Ellen Nakashima has the latest details in connection with the long-running debate over standing rules of engagement for CYBERCOM operations in connection with more active forms of defense, part...