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A Return of the Executive Branch Ban on GTMO Transfers to Yemen?
From this ABC/Associated Press piece: In another challenge to President Barack Obama's efforts to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, a ban on transferring detainees to Yemen has been effectively pushed bac... -
You Are a Lawyer in the Executive Branch
Correspondence finds its way into your inbox, bearing the signature of the newly-installed Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Senator Richard Burr. His letter (per today's New York... -
The French Response to Terror: Counterterrorism Detention and Prosecutions Across the Atlantic
In the aftermath of the Paris terror attacks on Charlie Hebdo and a kosher grocery, Western European security forces unleashed a dizzying storm of arrests and prosecutions and announced "exceptional" new... -
Moral Obtuseness, Guantanamo, Boko Haram, and the Media
This morning's BBC’s NewsHour show opened with a news judgment reflecting a genuinely odd moral calculus. At the end of the show’s headlines section, announcer James Menendez says: “coming up later in t... -
Welcome to Brooklyn: 2 AQ members who attacked US forces abroad brought to US for civilian trial
An interesting development in the ongoing debate regarding the optimal disposition for captured al Qaeda members: The Justice Department has just announced that two al Qaeda members (both citizens of Yem... -
New NSA Documents on Offensive Cyberoperations
Jacob Appelbaum, Laura Poitras and others have another NSA aticle with an enormous Snowden document dump on Der Spiegel, giving details on a variety of offensive NSA cyberoperations to infiltrate and exp... -
Five More Transfers From GTMO
The five detainees are Yemeni; four went to Oman, and one to Estonia, apparently. -
CIA Review: CIA Didn't Snoop Improperly on SSCI Staff
That's the gist of Jason Leopold's extraordinary article this afternoon for Vice, which in turn cites this report by a CIA Accountability Review Board. -
Notes on the Erosion of Norms of Armed Conflict
I spent the last two days at a terrific conference in at Columbia Law School on asymmetric warfare and the laws of armed conflict, organized by Matthew Waxman and the great Stanford international relatio... -
What to Do About Ongwen?
The Washington Post has a fascinating article today about the legal issues arising from the surrender of one of the the notorious brutal leaders of the Lords Resistance Army, Dominic Ongwen. Apparently ... -
The CENTCOM Twitter Hack
By now, most readers of this blog are well aware that, for a brief period of time yesterday, ISIS cyber warriors (going under the hashtag #CyberCaliphate) took control of the CENTCOM Twitter and You-Tube... -
Text of Senator Ayotte's GTMO Transfers Bill
As promised, here it is. The rather unfortunate-seeming proposal provides, in full: 114TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION S.__ To extend and enhance prohibitions and limitations with respect to the transfer or re...
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