...this one from The Onion is not quite up to their usual standards, but it has a few smiles in it.

It's hard to believe this video made it through the vetting process over at Amnesty International. My first instinct was that it had to be a group of high school students parodying an Amnesty Internation...

...comes Justice and the Enemy: Nuremberg, 9/11, and the Trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, by William Shawcross.

Counsel for Guantanamo habeas petitioners Uthman, Almerfedi, and Latif--all of whom have cert petitions pending or imminent--have asked the Supreme Court to hold off on deciding whether to grant until th...

A jury has returned a guilty verdict against Tarek Mehanna, in a case that raises questions about the scope of criminal liability for online activities promoting violence.  The case raises very interesti...

Raha Wala of Human Rights First has rewritten Bobby and my NDAA FAQ. Here is his very commendable effort: While I agree that much of he public discussion of the NDAA provisions has been hyperbolic, I als...

As Lawfare readers know only too well, I don't engage with He Who Must Not Be Named on this Blog. I do, however, engage with Seema Saifee, who represents four Guantanamo Uighurs (three of whom are no lon...

Another bad development in the Daqduq situation (see here if you don't know whom I'm talking about).  According to the AP, Iraqi officials have indicated that the only charge they plan to bring against A...

We've previously covered the Fourth Circuit's pair of decisions in September dismissing tort suits against various contractors arising out of claims of torture at various detention facilities in Iraq--in...

The volume of sheer, unadulterated nonsense zipping around the internet about the NDAA boggles the mind. There was a time--only a few months ago--when the NDAA detention provisions were the obscure provi...

In our final installment of NDAA transcripts, we bring you the Senate's debate on December 15th on the conference report's detention provisions. Here are some highlights: Senators Carl Levin and John M...

David Cole, writing in the New York Review of Books blog, has this essay on the President's decision not to veto the NDAA. Key passage: the law as amended continues to contain extraordinarily dangerous p...

Former DHS policy official Paul Rosenzweig has this new contribution to a paper series published by the Hoover Institution's Task Force on National Security and Law--of which I am a member. The paper, en...

Scott Peterson and Payam Faramarzi at the Christian Science Monitor have an interview with an unnamed Iranian engineer who says that Iran took over the computer systems of the RQ-170 Sentinel UAV, cut of...

What an interesting day for the question of how to address cases involving participation in the insurgency in Iraq. Earlier today we learned that Ali Musa Daqduq, the last American military detainee in ...

Oh my.  Ali Mussa Daqduq, a Hezbollah agent held by the U.S. military for many years in Iraq and believed to have been responsible for an episode involving the capture, torture, and murder of a group of ...