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Memo to any and all D.C. Circuit judges.
Please note in Steve's post earlier about the Fourth Circuit's Al Shimari argument the second bullet-pointed sentence: "The (long) oral argument audio is availab...
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The AP covers breaking news that the hacker group Anonymous intercepted and leaked a January conference call between the FBI and Scotland Yard regarding the tracking and prosecution of members of the gr...
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I wasn't able to attend last Friday's oral argument before the en banc Fourth Circuit in the Abu Ghraib contractor suits (about which we've said quite a bit previously).
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Cori Crider of the British human rights group Reprieve stopped by my office yesterday to talk about her client, Yunus Rahmatullah--about whom Bobby has written and who is suddenly the subject of a very d...
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The Washington Post and the New York Times both report that the U.S will end combat operations in Afghanistan by mid-2013, more than a year earlier than scheduled.
But beware of this brewing storm in th...
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British journalist William Shawcross's new book on Nuremberg and the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Justice and the Enemy, continues to receive a great deal of attention (See Jack's review here and Wel...
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I share Bobby's skepticism "that the public actually is primed to explode with anger" should the Obama administration notify Congress that it intends to send high-level Taliban detainees now at Guantanam...
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Nobody in Washington ever got rich making predictions about the political process. Nevertheless, I will go out on a limb and predict that at some point in the coming debate over the Senate cybersecurity...
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From Reuters:
One Republican lawmaker said public opposition would escalate sharply if and when the administration formally notified Congress it intends to transfer the prisoners, who come from the highe...
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The government has filed its answer to Mustafa Ahmed Al Hawsawi's petition for a writ of mandamus concerning monitoring of attorney-client communications at Guantanamo. Al Hawsawi's motion for a prelimin...
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Whoops! Yesterday, reporters questioned White House spokesman Jay Carney about the administration's use of drones following President Obama's epic Google+ hangout.
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The US government is considering transferring a group of five Taliban detainees from GTMO to Qatar (to be held there by Qatari authorities) in furtherance of peace negotiations in relation to Afghanistan...
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The Nashiri defense has filed a motion to depose Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who arrived recently in the United States for medical treatment. The motion is not yet public, but its title appears ...
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Published by Henry Holt/Times Books (2011)
Reviewed by Samuel Rascoff
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Soon, Senator Harry Reid promises to bring a comprehensive cybersecurity bill before the Senate for consideration. The base draft bill to be considered remains shrouded in secrecy, the subject of urgent...
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Today's top story is the President's maybe-a-little-too candid remarks on the CIA's drone program, as Ben discussed here.
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I'm pleased to announce that Paul Rosenzweig will be guest blogging for Lawfare while Congress considers the cybersecurity legislation that is now headed for the Senate floor. Paul has a great deal of ex...
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Riddle me this: At what point does official acknowledgment of a covert action become so strong that it can no longer be justified as a covert action--which is statutorily defined as action in which the r...
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Drone strikes in Yemen raise important questions regarding the field of application of International Humanitarian Law (IHL), the extraterritorial applicability of International Human Rights Law (IHRL), a...
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So amidst all of the gridlock in Congress and the presidential campaigning, there is actually a pretty good chance that Congress might get something significant and forward-looking done this year. The is...
