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This Week at the Military Commissions, 3/13 Session: “It Was Devastating”
Editor's Note: This post has been updated with a paragraph concluding the day's coverage, as the transcript for the last session of the court's March 13th hearings was originally not available on the Off... -
EU Counterterrorism Sanctions and IHL: A v. Minister van Buitenlandse Zaken
Can the acts of armed forces in the framework of an armed conflict governed by International Humanitarian Law constitute terrorist acts? According to a new judgment of the Grand Chamber of the Court of J... -
Proxy Detention of a U.S. Citizen in Iraq? A Glimpse Into a Murky but Important Category of Detention
I would have missed this story if Phil Carter hadn’t flagged it on Twitter, since the Post categorized it as a merely “Local” item: a U.S. citizen from Virginia by the name of Mohamad Khweis apparently w... -
A Revived CIA Drone Strike Program? Comments on the New Policy
In yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, Gordon Lubold and Shane Harris reported that President Trump “has given the Central Intelligence Agency secret new authority to conduct drone strikes against suspected... -
This Week at the Military Commissions, 3/10 Session: Motion Sickness and Medical Side Effects
March 10th opens with a lengthy examination of an unnamed Senior Medical Officer (SMO), who was formerly responsible for caring for Nashiri from September 2016 through February 2017. The defense team hav... -
This Week at the Military Commissions, 3/9 Session: A Timeline for Discovery
Our usual crew returns to Nashiri where we left them on the 8th—debating a timeline for discovery. -
DOJ Delivered Only Copy of SSCI Report to Court, Senate Democrats Write
As Benjamin Wittes and I have noted, the last few weeks of the Obama administration and the first months of the Trump administration generated some activity surrounding the Senate Intelligence Committee’... -
Guantanamo Redux: Why It was Opened and Why It Should Be Closed (and not Enlarged)
It is hard to believe that the Guantanamo Bay detention facility is back in the headlines fifteen years after it opened and eight years after President Obama ordered it closed. Having been present at its... -
This Week at the Military Commissions, 3/8 Session: Wouldn’t It Be Nice to Talk About the Cole?
Editor's Note: Our military commissions coverage will be out of order this week due to difficulties in accessing transcripts from the Office of Military Commissions website. As such, coverage for Wednesd... -
A Programming Note on This Week’s Military Commissions Coverage
Lawfare would like to apologize for the delay in our military commissions coverage this week. As our readers know, we rely on transcripts provided by the Office of Military Commissions to provide our cov... -
This Week at the Military Commissions, 3/6 Session: Discovery Woes, Unauthorized Browsing, and “Captain X”
After three months away, pretrial hearings in the USS Cole case are set to resume, with military judge Air Force Colonel Vance Spath calling the session to order. The judge notes those who are present, i... -
Cyber-Ops and North Korean Missile Systems: Three Questions
A weekend New York Times story by David Sanger and William Broad disclosed U.S. cyber-operations against the North Korean ballistic missile program.
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