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The British government released a green paper on justice and security a few days ago -- entitled, appropriately enough, the "Justice and Security Green Paper." The full text is available here. For a bri...
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I'm afraid I owe Lawfare readers an apology. Because of a calendar foul-up, I missed yesterday's D.C. Circuit argument in Alsabri v. Obama, a Guantanamo habeas case--nor did I write an oral argument prev...
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The AP and the AFP have the story of Abd al-Nashiri, the main suspect in the USS Cole bombing, whose trial Bobby discusses here.
The AP
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Here is the latest salvo in the debate relating to the NDAA provisions relating to detainees: Last week Chairman McKeon sent this 7-page letter to the White House responding to the administration's earli...
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Yesterday I asked whether there are any historical examples in which (i) a military commission prosecution occurred during an armed conflict rather than afterwards, (ii) the defendant was acquitted, and ...
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May God bless their little souls. The poor dears really are trying. The New York Times editorial page has now corrected its correction.
This is getting meta, and this post will be incomprehensible to th...
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The defense in United States v.
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The latest public development in the long-running fight over the detention provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act occurred last Friday when a group of 13 Senate Democrats (all the Democrats...
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Secretary of State Hilary Clinton staunchly defended the Iraq withdrawal on several Sunday talk shows; her remarks on ABC's The Week are available here, beginning at minute 6:54. However, President Obam...
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An interesting story in the Post this weekend draws attention to the fact that about 7,000 detainees currently are held without criminal charge in various locations throughout Libya, and with varying deg...
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Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, Kenneth Anderson writes of my post yesterday, "What should most concern the Times are the couple of emails I’ve received from several eminent professors, smart and intellec...
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I awoke this morning to a genuine marvel: An actual real-live correction to a New York Times editorial on a national security issue. It reads as follows:
This article has been revised to reflect the foll...
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Ongoing developments in Libya continue to generate abundant news. Most notably, the United Nations has called for an inquiry into Qaddafi's death, reports Nick Cumming Bruce of the New York Times.
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The invaluable Josh Gerstein of the Politico offers these important pieces of the legislative politics puzzle surrounding the Kelly Ayotte amendment, which I wrote about here and here:
The vote, taken ju...
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As you probably have heard already, negotiations to extend the U.S.
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Over at Opinio Juris, Lawfare Book Review Editor Ken Anderson raises a series of important questions about the CIA drone program. In that post, Ken very kindly notes the relationship of these questions ...
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A couple of military commission developments worth mention.
First, al Nashiri has filed a motion "To Determine If the Trial of this Case Is One From Which the Defendant May Be Meaningfully Acquitted." ...
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The Kelly Ayotte amendment I discussed yesterday was voted down late last night, reports the Associated Press:
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted early Friday to reject a Republican effort to prohibit the Uni...
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Judge Reggie Walton today dismissed on standing grounds the lawsuit challenging the legality of the military operation in Libya (via Josh Gerstein). The decision was not remotely surprising, and indeed ...
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In breaking news, Libya's Muammar el-Qaddafi is confirmed dead.
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