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Reviewed by Kenneth Anderson
Noam Lubell, Extraterritorial Use of Force Against Non-State Actors (Oxford 2010)
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Several brewing storms before the weekend:
The controversy over the NDAA continues to generate friction between the administration and Congress. According to the Washington Post and the Politico, Presid...
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Several days ago, the government moved in the D.C. Circuit to challenge the counsel–and thus end the appeal–of Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman Al Bahlul, whose military commission conviction and life sentence is...
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Last week I noted that the United States seeks the extradition of Abdeladim El-Kabir, a man currently held in Germany based on allegations that he was part of an al Qaeda-related cell trained in Pakistan...
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Finally, the administration has spoken clearly, directly, and with direct references to consequences--a veto--about the detainee provisions of the NDAA. The White House's Statement of Administration Poli...
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Sabin Willett, who represented the Guantanamo Uighurs in Parhat and Kiyemba, writes in with the following comments about Latif:
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That's something nobody will ever be able to take away from you.
UPDATE: Too late. Somone beat you to it. That someone--Lawfare's 500th Facebook "Like"--is one Kathryn Cameron Porter, who has Lawfare's ...
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First, NDAA news: the Associated Press reports on the letter Defense Secretary Leon Panetta wrote to the Senate Armed Services Committee expressing serious concerns with the detainee provisions in the bi...
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THE 5th ANNUAL NATIONAL SECURITY LAW FACULTY WORKSHOP
May 17-18, 2012
Houston, TX
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Well, apropos of my prior post, the White House has in fact now issued a veto threat in relation to the detainee provisions in the NDAA. The full text of the SAP is here, and the detainee-relevant langu...
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I was just reading a piece by Adam Serwer (Mother Jones) regarding the NDAA detainee provisions, and came across this pithy line from Ben:
"If Congress is going to take the president seriously, it has to...
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When we last looked in on Al Maqaleh v. Gates, the case seeking to extend the right to federal habeas review for non-Afghan detainees held in the U.S.-controlled detention facility in Afghanistan, the pe...
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The Senate's new NDAA language changes almost nothing. Yes, there are some technical adjustments, which Bobby has described in detail, and some of these may serve to lessen slightly the irrational burden...
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Two weeks ago, I had a few posts discussing the scope of detention authority authorized under section 1031 of the then-pending SASC version of the NDAA, in response to Steve Vladeck's concern that the la...
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A flurry of coverage on the new Senate NDAA language regarding the handling of terror suspects and detainees.
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The UK for some time has been wrestling with the problem of civil litigation that implicates states secrets. Foreign Minister William Hague addressed the issue eloquently in this speech, which in releva...
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Salim Hamdan has filed his initial brief in the D.C. Circuit, appealing his military commission conviction and the Court of Military Commission Review opinion affirming it. He raises the following issues...
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On Tuesday, the Senate Armed Services Committee passed a new version of the controversial detainee provisions to be included in the National Defense Authorization Act for FY ’12. The text is here, thanks...
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I was going to write an oral argument preview this week for the D.C. Circuit's coming oral argument in the case of Fayiz Mohammed Ahmed Al Kandari, the next Guantanamo habeas petitioner to come before th...
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David Cole has this very thoughtful essay on the Anwar Al Aulaqi killing in the New York Review of Books--a very thoughtful essay with a rather loaded opening. Cole's first sentence asks, "When can the p...
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