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In the Clinton Administration, I participated in vigorous debates about whether to treat transnational threats, such as terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, as law enforcement or intelligence and w...
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Worth flagging: yesterday's New York Times opinion piece, which was published in the wake of Sloan's departure from the State Department last month.
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On December 30, the outgoing Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Senator Dianne Feinstein, sent a letter to the White House.
The document---which was released earlier today---overvi...
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At last, you have reached the final post in Lawfare’s coverage of the motions hearing portion of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri’s arraignment.
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The Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg has the scoop; apparently the five men are headed for Kazakhstan.
The Pentagon freed five Guantánamo prisoners to resettlement in Kazakhstan on Tuesday, a day after the...
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Wells already flagged yesterday's D.D.C.
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Such is the gist of Judge Richard Roberts' order, issued yesterday in the context of the high-value Guantanamo detainee's habeas case in D.C.
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Earlier this month, the Justice Department issued revised Guidance for Federal Law Enforcement Agencies on the Use of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, National Origin, Religion, Sexual Orientation, or Gender Ide...
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The New York Times reports:
WASHINGTON — The State Department envoy who negotiates detainee transfers from the military prison at
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Polarization surrounding the SSCI Report (see here for Lawfare’s coverage) has been most pronounced on the efficacy of enhanced interrogation techniques (EITs). The Report and its supporters have proclai...
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Here is the fifth and final installment in our running, side-by-side comparison of the twenty findings and conclusions of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's Study on the CIA's Detention and In...
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James Connell III, lawyer for 9/11 accused Ammar al-Baluchi, had this to say today:
"The CIA and its defenders are using Mr. al Baluchi as a scapegoat for its illegal and reprehensible use of torture," s...