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Carrie Cordero on Physical Security at Schools
Carrie Cordero, Georgetown’s Director of National Security Studies and a former Justice Department official, writes in with the following provocative thoughts on the Newtown shootings and layered physica... -
New Paper on Domestic Drone Issues
From the shameless self-promotion department, this: last week Brookings published my recent paper on the integration of unmanned aircraft systems---drones---into our national airspace. The piece identif... -
DOJ Comes To Its Senses; Drops Guantanamo MOU Appeal
About six weeks ago, I flagged the (in my view, alarming) filing by the government of a notice of appeal to the D.C. Circuit in the Guantanamo MOU/continuing access-to-counsel litigation. -
Administration Issues WPR Report
Here is the White House's supplemental consolidated report regarding the deployment of U.S. armed forces. The report is addressed to the Speaker of the House, and was---in the President's words---"prepa... -
Motion to Dismiss Filed in Al-Aulaqi v. Panetta et al.
Today, lawyers for Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, and other federal officials sued in their individual capacities, filed a motion to dismiss in the case of Al-Aulaqi v. -
Emergency Motion Denied in Hedges
According to a notation on the Supreme Court's docke -
D.C. Circuit Opinion in <i>Khairkhwa</i> Comes Down
The D.C. Circuit has handed down its latest Guantanamo habeas case, Khairkhwa v. Obama. The brief, unanimous opinion by Senior Judge A. Raymond Randolph for himself and Judges Judith Rogers and Merrick G... -
El-Masri Awarded Damages by ECHR
The European Court of Human Rights ("ECHR") today held that Macedonia had violated the rights of Khaled El-Masri. In 2003 El-Masri, a German national, was confused for a similarly-named terrorism suspe... -
Al Maqaleh Headed for the D.C. Circuit
Looks like the D.C. Circuit is going to get another crack at Bagram jurisdiction. Maqaleh II, decided by the district court in mid-October, is headed up. Good luck with that! -
George Will on Drones, Assassination, and Targeted Killing
As Ritika already noted, George Will has a column in today's Washington Post about drones and targeted killing. In it, he poses a question lots of people ask about drone strikes and that warrants a momen... -
Closing the MOU Loop: My PENNumbra Response to Andrew Kent on Why <em>Boumediene</em> "Rights" Don't "Expire"
Back in early November, Ben and I blogged about Fordham Professor Andrew Kent's provocative new essay, "Do Boumediene Rights Expire?," which he published in "PENNumbra," the online companion to the Unive... -
Syria, Chemical Weapons, and Possible U.S. Military Action
Over the weekend, the United Kingdom joined the United States in warning publicly about Syria’s intentions regarding its chemical weapons. Foreign Secretary William Hague told reporters that the U.K.
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