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A Return of the Executive Branch Ban on GTMO Transfers to Yemen?
From this ABC/Associated Press piece: In another challenge to President Barack Obama's efforts to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, a ban on transferring detainees to Yemen has been effectively pushed bac... -
The French Response to Terror: Counterterrorism Detention and Prosecutions Across the Atlantic
In the aftermath of the Paris terror attacks on Charlie Hebdo and a kosher grocery, Western European security forces unleashed a dizzying storm of arrests and prosecutions and announced "exceptional" new... -
The Obama Administration Does Not Want a New AUMF
Last night the President “call[ed] on this Congress to show the world that we are united in this mission by passing a resolution to authorize the use of force against ISIL.” This comes on the heels of h... -
Relevant Passages of President Obama's State of the Union Address
The following are the passages of tonight's State of the Union address that seem to me most relevant to the Lawfare readership: Tonight, for the first time since 9/11, our combat mission in Afghanistan i... -
Moral Obtuseness, Guantanamo, Boko Haram, and the Media
This morning's BBC’s NewsHour show opened with a news judgment reflecting a genuinely odd moral calculus. At the end of the show’s headlines section, announcer James Menendez says: “coming up later in t... -
Welcome to Brooklyn: 2 AQ members who attacked US forces abroad brought to US for civilian trial
An interesting development in the ongoing debate regarding the optimal disposition for captured al Qaeda members: The Justice Department has just announced that two al Qaeda members (both citizens of Yem... -
An EU PNR System?
Passenger Name Records (or PNR) are the data collected by an airline at the time of a passenger's reservation. The data in a PNR is often very detailed and robust. It may, for example, include a cell p... -
How Many People Are We Really Deporting?
Under the shadow of Mexico’s twin volcanoes in the tiny mountainous village of San Mateo Ozolco, Erasmo Aparicio stands outside his house, arms crossed, black hood pulled down over his hair. -
President Obama Comments on Back-doors in Encryption
We've yet to find a transcript of President Obama's remarks during today's press conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron, but according to several news outlets, the President made a number o... -
Five More Transfers From GTMO
The five detainees are Yemeni; four went to Oman, and one to Estonia, apparently. -
Did the FBI Just Prevent an Attack in DC from a Homegrown ISIS Supporter?
A very, very big arrest in Cincinnati today, involving allegations that a man named Christopher Cornell (online alias Raheel Mahrus Ubaydah) had planned to travel to DC in order to carry out an attack (v... -
Text of Senator Ayotte's GTMO Transfers Bill
As promised, here it is. The rather unfortunate-seeming proposal provides, in full: 114TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION S.__ To extend and enhance prohibitions and limitations with respect to the transfer or re...
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