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Victor Davis Hanson on Obama's "Game of Drones"
Over at the Hoover Institution's Defining Ideas site, Victor Davis Hanson has this useful essay on the politics of drones. -
Al Madhwani Emergency Motion on Water and Clothes
An emergency motion filed before U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan the other day alleges that guards at Guantanamo are denying a hunger-striking detainee access to potable water and are cranking up the ai... -
CMCR Denies Mandamus in Military Commission Media Access Cases
Wells blogged previously about the efforts of various media groups and the ACLU to seek mandamus review before the Court of Military Commission Review (CMCR), challenging the scope of the protective orde... -
Speaking the Law: The Obama Administration's Addresses on National Security Law
We are excited to announce the launch of a project at which we have been hard at work for some time. -
Royal United Services Institute Issues "Hitting the Target" Report
The British Royal United Services Institute has issued a report entitled "Hitting the Target? How New Capabilities are Shaping International Intervention." Here's how the organization describes the proje... -
Troubling Visualization of U.S. Drone Campaign in Pakistan
This is sure to satisfy your targeted-killing jonesing for the week: Out of Sight, Out of Mind, a website launched by a company called Pitch Interactive, documents---quite stunningly in visual terms, if ... -
New Gallup Poll on Support for Drone Strikes
Ritika linked yesterday to a new Gallup poll on public attitudes towards drone strikes. The results are not surprising, but they are interesting. Americans largely support drone strike against foreign te... -
Carter and Pearlstein on Prosecution and Counterterrorism (and the Question of Denied Areas)
Philip Carter and Deborah Pearlstein have posted a thoughtful essay at Foreign Policy that emphasizes the utility of civilian criminal prosecution as a counterterrorism option. I very much agree with th... -
The Lingering Elements of Detention in Afghanistan: Non-Afghans and Afghan ESTs
Ben has already noted that the United States and Afghahnistan struck a deal to resume the process of handing over the remnants of U.S. -
Chief Judge Lamberth on the Government's Foot-Dragging in the Guantánamo Habeas Cases
Even for those keeping up with the Guantánamo litigation, this decision by Chief Judge Lamberth, a declassified version of which was released on Friday, may have slipped under the radar. The specific iss... -
Caitlin Fitz Gerald on Drones, Polarization, and Google Autofill
Over at the graphical Drawnward blog, Caitlin Fitz Gerald has figured out an interesting way of illustrating our increasingly polarized attitudes over drones. She typed "drones are" into Google and grabb... -
The AUMF Will Soon Extend to Syria (If It Doesn't Already)
The WSJ has a story (behind paywall, I think) about the CIA “expanding its role in the campaign against the Syrian regime by feeding intelligence to select rebel fighters to use against government forces...
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