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* United States v. Mubayyid and Muntasser (1st Cir. Sep.
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For those who are in the process of picking casebooks for a national security law or law-and-terrorism course next spring, you’ll want to take a look at the following two:
“National Security Law” (5th e...
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(by Benjamin Wittes, Robert Chesney & Jack Goldsmith)
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No, that's not an Onion headline--nor is today April 1. Nor is it entirely true.
Still, the New York Times has obtained a copy of the "Report of the Secretary-General’s Panel of Inquiry on the 31 May 20...
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I'm in the process of collecting and posting reviews of and commentary on Vice President Dick Cheney's book that will be of interest to Lawfare readers.
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On August 30, the Eleventh Circuit decisively dismissed a classic lawfare lawsuit -- an Alien Tort Statute suit brought against the former President and former Defense Minister of Bolivia (Gonzalo Sanche...
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That's what somebody in the government is saying today, on reading this Washington Post story about a contract dispute between two aviation companies involved in CIA renditions--a dispute that seems to i...
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The Washington Post has an interesting article this morning on a website that posts rankings of hackers. The concept is that hackers earn points based on level of difficulty of the hack, as well as the ...
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The new Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors, Alan Krueger, challenged the Bush administration's assertion that invading Iraq would reduce world-wide terror, Nancy Scola at the Atlantic writes.
Amn...
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Business Insider
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And we're back.
Ibrahim al-Rubeish, a senior member of Al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia, who is also a former Guantanamo detainee has recommended to UAE interior minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud to ...
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Published by Doubleday (2011)
Reviewed by Benjamin Wittes
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If you apply for this job, you probably should refrain from mentioning that you read about it on Lawfare:
Counsel, Liberty and National Security Program
Location: Washington, DC
Department: Liberty and...
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In kicking off Lawfare's 9/11 10th anniversary project devoted to laying bare our own non-trivial errors of analysis or understanding over the last decade, I have a number from which to choose. All, howe...
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Over at the Council on Foreign Relations web site, Matthew Waxman offers a brief essay on lessons learned on detention policy from the last ten years:
An important lesson since the 9/11 attacks is that d...
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Over at the Weekly Standard's blog, Thomas Joscelyn has this piece critiquing a CNN report on Fayiz Mohammed Ahmed Al Kandari, whose habeas case we have covered here.
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Another Mark Mazzetti story from the past week that deserves your attention: this piece, which sheds some additional light on the intelligence and logistical support that the United States is providing t...
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Mark Mazzetti had a piece yesterday in the Times covering the important news that CIA once again has located and killed al Qaeda's top officer for operational planning (Atiyah abd al-Rahman, who took ove...
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The 10th anniversary of September 11 is, as everyone knows, coming up soon, and it promises a veritable orgy of selective memory. America's debate over law and security is, in general, characterized by a...
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The New York Times is reporting that the CIA has demanded "extensive cuts from the memoir of a former F.B.I. agent who spent years near the center of the battle against Al Qaeda." Ali Soufan has been a v...