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“Congress is stalled in its effort to pass a separate resolution authorizing military force against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant,” write Austin Wright and Bryan Bender in a good Politico stor...
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Jessica Stern (who wrote Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill) and J.M. Berger have a new book that should be of interest to Lawfare readers: ISIS: The State of Terror. The book is a ...
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On March 4 2015, Pakistani national Abid Naseer was convicted in a Brooklyn Federal Court of supporting terrorism and conspiring with al-Qaeda to bomb a shopping mall in the United Kingdom in 2009.
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In the trial of Abid Naseer, the U.S. Department of Justice released a trove of new files recovered from Osama bin Laden's compound during the May 2011 raid by U.S. Navy Seals that ended in his death. Se...
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Earlier this morning, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee heard testimony from Secretary of State John Kerry, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mart...
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The latest ODNI recidivism report is available here. The last report, which was released in September, is here.
Since the release of the September 2014 report, an additional nine former detainees have r...
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With opening statements made, prosecutors in the capital case against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev commenced their presentation of evidence. An overview of the day’s testimony---which spanned some of the morning a...
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After weeks of protracted and highly contested jury selection, opening statements in the capital case against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev got underway yesterday, more than one month later than originally planned. ...
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A couple of weeks ago I recapped the Tsarnaev mandamus oral argument. And on Friday, the First Circuit panel that heard the arguments---composed of Chief Judge Sandra Lynch, and Judges Juan Torruella and...
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Lunch hour concludes at Guantanamo and at Fort Meade.
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We return from recess.
What will the way forward be? The military judge mentions pending motions AE319F and G, and AE333, and AE337. In his view, Judge Spath may be able to rule on some of these witho...
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Air Force Col. Vance Spath, the military judge, resumes proceedings. The question is what those proceedings will comprise, the docket having been winnowed greatly, both by yesterday’s unlawful influence...