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The Politico reports that the army has disciplined 15 people over the WikiLeaks scandal, and at least one officer "was reduced in rank for dereliction of duty" after an "internal investigation into the d...
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Yesterday, a Fifth Circuit panel (King, joined by Garza and Graves) affirmed the convictions of the individual defendants in the Holy Land Foundation ("HLF") case and also dismissed the appeal lodged by ...
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Both of these upcoming Brookings events may interest Lawfare readers:
Hacktivism, Vigilantism and Collective Action in a Digital Age
Friday, December 09, 2011
10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Radical online a...
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The following is a continuation of our side-by-side comparison of the House and Senate versions of the NDAA:
Prohibition of Detainee Transfer to the United States
The House version of the bill (Section 1...
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Today is the 70th anniversary of the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor. Read historian Ian Toll's New York Times op-ed on the "date which will live in infamy."
With the conference committee trying to fin...
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[UPDATE (12/9/11): See here for my updated assessment as to US citizens captured abroad.]
On the day that the Senate passed its version of the NDAA, I wrote a post in the morning addressing whether the ...
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As the House of Representatives and the Senate head to conference on the NDAA, I thought it might be useful to analyze the similarities and differences between the counterterrorism provisions of the two ...
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With many thanks to Alice Beauheim, it is an idea whose time has surely come.
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A redacted version of the cert petition in the case of Hussain Salem Mohammed Almerfedi is now public.
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We are grateful to Katie Bacon and the rest of the crew at the Harvard Law Bulletin for this very nice piece discussing the HLS-Brookings Project on Law and Security as well as Lawfare, and to Dean Minow...
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Matt Waxman (who served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs from 2004 to 2005) and I have written a short article for the Council on Foreign Relations expressing concern about t...
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Lots of NDAA developments to kick start your week.
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A brief update for sports fans who follow the fierce international competition of, uh, Lawfare readership: Pakistan's brief stint on the medal podium in this admittedly obscure sport seems to have come t...
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The saga of whether Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman Al Bahlul's counsel rightly represents him before the D.C. Circuit in his military commissions appeal continues. The government, you'll recall from prior cover...
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The 31st Quadrennial Conference of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent closed on Thursday in Geneva with the adoption of a resolution inviting the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)...
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(Raffaela Wakeman and Ritika Singh)
As we've covered the NDAA fight pretty exhaustively, we're not going to dwell on it much here.
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Jubair Ahmad, a Pakistani man residing in the United States who created and uploaded an LeT propoganda video at LeT's request, has pled guilty to violating the 1996 material support statute, 18 USC 2339B...
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A bunch of readers have written to me since I posted this little item questioning whether New York Times editorial page editor Andy Rosenthal got it wrong when he wrote that:
When President Obama came in...
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