The Nashiri defense has filed a motion to depose Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who arrived recently in the United States for medical treatment. The motion is not yet public, but its title appears on the docket of his case … Read more »
Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America’s Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda explores the emergence of new strategic thinking in American counter-terrorism. Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker are two consummate national security reporters at the New York Times and their … Read more »
Soon, Senator Harry Reid promises to bring a comprehensive cybersecurity bill before the Senate for consideration. The base draft bill to be considered remains shrouded in secrecy, the subject of urgent, on-going, behind the scenes negotiations. The general intent appears … Read more »
Today’s top story is the President’s maybe-a-little-too candid remarks on the CIA’s drone program, as Ben discussed here. Here are the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times on the story.
Lots of other drone news: … Read more »
I’m pleased to announce that Paul Rosenzweig will be guest blogging for Lawfare while Congress considers the cybersecurity legislation that is now headed for the Senate floor. Paul has a great deal of expertise in cybersecurity legal policy issues, and … Read more »
Riddle me this: At what point does official acknowledgment of a covert action become so strong that it can no longer be justified as a covert action—which is statutorily defined as action in which the role of the United States is not … Read more »
Drone strikes in Yemen raise important questions regarding the field of application of International Humanitarian Law (IHL), the extraterritorial applicability of International Human Rights Law (IHRL), and the proper approach to norm reconciliation should both IHL and IHRL apply simultaneously. … Read more »
So amidst all of the gridlock in Congress and the presidential campaigning, there is actually a pretty good chance that Congress might get something significant and forward-looking done this year. The issue is cybersecurity, which is already covered in more than 30 congressional statutes—or … Read more »
Well, that didn’t take long. The government only submitted its opposition to Fayiz Mohammed Ahmed Al Kandari’s petition for en banc review on January 19. But the D.C. Circuit today denied the petition. A D.C. Circuit panel decided Al … Read more »
As Ben mentioned, we’re still waiting for iTunes to approve the Lawfare Podcast. Even before approval, however, you can subscribe to it through iTunes by following these simple steps:
Eric Schmitt and Michael Schmidt write in the New York Times that the drones keeping watch in Iraq are less than welcome these days, despite their being operated by the State Department, not the military.
The Jerusalem Post reports that … Read more »
It is a great pleasure to announce the first episode of the Lawfare Podcast:
The Lawfare Podcast quite literally speaks for itself, so I won’t spend a lot of time introducing it. Like a lot of things we do … Read more »
[The following guest post, from Geoff Corn (South Texas College of Law), extends the discussion of the Gotovina decision from Laurie Blanks's guest post yesterday]
On April 15, 2011, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia issued
[This is the first of two posts concerning the ICTY's Gotovina decision (the ICTY summary of which appears here, and two volumes of trial documents are available here]
Professor Laurie Blank, Director of the International Humanitarian Law Clinic … Read more »
The Blog of Legal Times tells us that the Department of Justice has ”filed court papers Wednesday in a public records suit in Washington asking U.S. District Judge James Boasberg to keep the photos [showing Osama bin Laden's dead body] out … Read more »
