On August 30, the Eleventh Circuit decisively dismissed a classic lawfare lawsuit — an Alien Tort Statute suit brought against the former President and former Defense Minister of Bolivia (Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada and Jose Carlos Sanchez Berzain) in connection … Read more »
That’s what somebody in the government is saying today, on reading this Washington Post story about a contract dispute between two aviation companies involved in CIA renditions—a dispute that seems to involve airing a lot of material in public. Money … Read more »
The Washington Post has an interesting article this morning on a website that posts rankings of hackers. The concept is that hackers earn points based on level of difficulty of the hack, as well as the identity of the targeted site. For … Read more »
The new Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors, Alan Krueger, challenged the Bush administration’s assertion that invading Iraq would reduce world-wide terror, Nancy Scola at the Atlantic writes.
Amnesty International continues to lobby for an investigation of Dick Cheney … Read more »
Business Insider is reporting:
According to Twitter users set a record on Sunday night when Beyonce revealed her baby bump to the record-breaking VMA audience.
From @twitterglobalpr: “Last night at 10:35pm ET, Beyonce’s big MTV #VMA moment gave Twitter a
And we’re back.
Ibrahim al-Rubeish, a senior member of Al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia, who is also a former Guantanamo detainee has recommended to UAE interior minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud to expel non-Muslims from the country, reports… Read more »
The Triple Agent: The Al-Qaeda Mole who Infiltrated the CIA, by Washington Post reporter Joby Warrick, ranks among the very best pieces of narrative journalism I have read related to the history of America’s conflict with Al Qaeda. Like … Read more »
If you apply for this job, you probably should refrain from mentioning that you read about it on Lawfare:
Counsel, Liberty and National Security Program
Location: Washington, DC
Department: Liberty and National Security Program
Type: Temporary to Full Time
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In kicking off Lawfare’s 9/11 10th anniversary project devoted to laying bare our own non-trivial errors of analysis or understanding over the last decade, I have a number from which to choose. All, however, pale in comparison to my vacillations … Read more »
Over at the Council on Foreign Relations web site, Matthew Waxman offers a brief essay on lessons learned on detention policy from the last ten years:
An important lesson since the 9/11 attacks is that detention decisions and practices have
Over at the Weekly Standard’s blog, Thomas Joscelyn has this piece critiquing a CNN report on Fayiz Mohammed Ahmed Al Kandari, whose habeas case we have covered here. I haven’t dissected the CNN piece about which Joscelyn links, but having … Read more »
Another Mark Mazzetti story from the past week that deserves your attention: this piece, which sheds some additional light on the intelligence and logistical support that the United States is providing to Mexico’s conflict with the cartels. The story … Read more »
Mark Mazzetti had a piece yesterday in the Times covering the important news that CIA once again has located and killed al Qaeda’s top officer for operational planning (Atiyah abd al-Rahman, who took over that position after a drone killed … Read more »
The 10th anniversary of September 11 is, as everyone knows, coming up soon, and it promises a veritable orgy of selective memory. America’s debate over law and security is, in general, characterized by an overabundance of certainty; everyone is way too convinced … Read more »
The New York Times is reporting that the CIA has demanded “extensive cuts from the memoir of a former F.B.I. agent who spent years near the center of the battle against Al Qaeda.” Ali Soufan has been a vocal critic of the agency’s … Read more »
