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A couple of weeks ago, as Ben noted, Trevor Morrison posted an article addressing the Libya-hostilities-OLC debate. An expanded and updated version of that paper is now available here at Harvard Law Rev...
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What was the legal theory supporting the two-month period of military detention for Ahmed Warsame, preceding his arrival in the United States? White House Spokesman Jay Carney had the following to say t...
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Kandahar--Among the ceremonies in Afghanistan on this past July 4th was one having more to do with Afghans and their international partners than with the United States troops stationed here, though we Am...
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One line of criticism emerging this morning in relation to the Ahmed Warsame situation is the argument that Warsame should be tried by military commission rather than in a civilian court. Ben nails it h...
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As Bobby notes, the recently announced criminal prosecution of Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame, captured overseas almost three months ago by U.S. military forces, could be an important test of an emerging hybri...
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Last week I posted about testmony from Admiral McRaven and General Allen concerning the lack of U.S.-controlled detention option in a world in which the executive branch does not want to see anyone broug...
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Deborah Pearlstein and Ben have been exchanging posts in relation to the pending NDAA legislation and detention authority issues. One passage in the exchange struck me as particularly significant. Deb ...
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This will show Rumsfeld!
From CNN.com:
Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- Iran plans to prosecute 26 current and former American officials, an Iranian lawmaker said Sunday, potentially escalating a tit-for-tat dispu...
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My former colleague Eugene Robinson has a column in the Washington post entitled "Assassination by Robot," which seems to me to warrant a brief response. Robinson begins by saying that, "The skies over a...
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Peter Bergen and Katherine Tiedmann have a piece in the new issue of Foreign Affairs (mostly behind the pay wall, but an excerpt is here) offering a mixed verdict on drone strike operations in Pakistan. ...
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The Washington Post reports this morning that JSOC recently carried out a drone strike in Somalia, targeting two al-Shabab leaders. The piece emphasizes that the Administration has recently highlighted ...
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As things stand now, the National Defense Authorization Act could end up being a disaster for the Obama administration on detainee matters. Much of the fault for this lies with Congress, a bipartisan maj...