On May 31, 2013, the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution hosted Rached Ghannouchi, co-founder and president of Tunisia’s Islamist ruling party, Al Nahda, for an address on the future of democracy in the country. Martin … Read more »
This week, I interviewed CDR Walter Ruiz, a lawyer for accused 9/11 co-conspirator Mustafa al-Hawsawi.
Our discussion touched on, among other things: the fairness of military commission rules; Ruiz’s contention that the rules allow evidence derived from torture; Ruiz’s own … Read more »
UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counterterrorism, Ben Emmerson, came by the Brookings Institution this morning for a wide-ranging discussion on his investigation of drone strikes. We had planned the interview as a video, but Emmerson’s remarks broke enough … Read more »
On April 24, Ben gave a talk at Britain’s Parliament. The Henry Jackson Society organized the event, which was entitled “Are Drones the New Guantanamo?”
A lively question-and-answer session followed Ben’s remarks. (The audio quality is somewhat spotty during the … Read more »
On Monday, my Brookings colleague Bruce Riedel held an excellent discussion with Philip Mudd, former deputy director of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center and author of the new book Takedown: Inside the Hunt for Al Qaeda. Mudd has also served … Read more »
The Federal Public Defender Office for the Districts of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island has said it expects to represent Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, according to Miriam Conrad, the office’s federal public defender.
As it so happens, … Read more »
The subject of lethal autonomous weapons has been one of considerable debate on this site—following a Human Rights Watch report calling for a preemptive international ban on such systems. Last week, the Georgetown National Security Law Society took the … Read more »
Fawzia Koofi (website, Twitter) is an Afghan Member of Parliament and Vice President of the Afghan National Assembly. She is also running for President of Afghanistan in the planned April 2014 elections, and would be the first … Read more »
This morning, my Brookings colleagues Michael O’Hanlon and Bruce Riedel held an excellent event with General Stanley McChrystal on the evolution of JSOC and his new book, My Share of the Task. I can’t embed the video because of … Read more »
A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of sitting at a dinner next to Stephen Krasner, a Stanford political scientist who used to head the State Department’s policy planning staff. Steve isn’t a national security lawyer, but … Read more »
Rezwan Ferdaus, a 26-year-old U.S.-born citizen of Bangladeshi origin, was arrested in September 2011 for plotting to attack the Pentagon and the Capitol Building with remote-controlled model airplanes carrying C-4 explosives, as well as for providing material support to al … Read more »
In this special episode of the Lawfare Podcast, Military Commission Chief Prosecutor Brigadier General Mark Martins discusses his decision to recommend dropping conspiracy charges against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the other 9/11 defendants. Martins announced yesterday that in light … Read more »
This is the latest piece in the interview series I have done over the last few months with terrorism and regional experts about non-legal issues of pertinence to Lawfare readers. For this episode, I interviewed American University professor and nonresident … Read more »
On Monday, October 29, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Clapper v. Amnesty International, which poses the question whether a group of human rights organizations, lawyers, activists, and journalists have standing to challenge a congressionally-authorized warantless government surveillance … Read more »
This is the third in a series of interviews I am doing with scholars around Washington D.C. who have non-legal expertise that bears on the national security legal questions near and dear to the hearts of Lawfare readers. My first … Read more »
Last month, I linked to an essay over at Foreign Policy by the mysterious Twitter phenom known as @drunkenpredator. Drunken Predator, who also blogs occasionally over at the Gunpowder and Lead blog is a pseudonym for a writer who—often … Read more »
This is the second in a series of interviews I am doing with scholars around town who have non-legal expertise that bears on the national security law issues Lawfare readers care about. As I did in my first piece with … Read more »
This is the first in a series of posts I will be doing over the comings weeks based on a set of interviews I am conducting with people who have expertise of interest to Lawfare readers–but from whom we don’t … Read more »
Professor Kent Roach, the Prichard Wilson Chair in Law and Public Policy at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, has written a new book, The 9/11 Effect: Comparative Counter-Terrorism, which came out last August from Cambridge University Press. … Read more »
Ken posted as a Reading sometime back Ashley Deek’s new article in the Virginia Journal of International Law, ‘Unwilling or Unable’: Toward an Normative Framework for Extra-Territorial Self-Defense. Ashley spoke on the subject of the “unwilling or unable” … Read more »
The following is the speech I gave at the MILOPS conference in Singapore on Monday. It was entitled, “Legislating for the Wars We Fight.”
This is the first of three speeches I recorded in Singapore at the Pacific Command’s Military Operations and Law Conference. I don’t normally post podcasts in rapid succession, but I will be releasing these three together, as all took place … Read more »
We don’t review our own books here on Lawfare–not even if we happen to be Lawfare‘s book review editor. But I sat down the other day with Ken Anderson to discuss his wonderful new book, Living With the … Read more »
Ken already wrote up Jen Daskal’s new article, “The Geography of the Battlefield: A Framework for Detention and Targeting Outside of the ‘Hot’ Conflict Zone,” so I won’t summarize it again here. It’s a particularly thoughtful piece and … Read more »
Peter Berkowitz of the Hoover Institution has a new book out, entitled Israel and the Struggle Over the International Laws of War. The book, which is very brief–more of a long essay, really–is an impassioned critique of the abuse … Read more »
Toomas Hendrik Ilves is the President of Estonia, a small nation (population about 1.3 million) and also one of the most wired and digitally advanced nations in the world. Ilves was President of Estonia in 2007 when it famously suffered … Read more »
In this episode of the Lawfare Podcast, Bobby Chesney sits down with Brigadier General Rich Gross, the Legal Advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for a detailed discussion of the nature of his office, its role … Read more »
In this episode of the Lawfare Podcast, I sat down with Lawfare’s cybersecurity legislative guest blogger, Paul Rosenzweig, and with my Brookings colleague Allan Friedman, to talk about pending pending cybersecurity bills, what they would do, and how this apparently … Read more »
Guess what? Jack has a new book out.
You probably already knew that, but in case you didn’t, it’s called Power and Constraint: The Accountable Presidency after 9/11. If you haven’t already scored a copy and read it, you … Read more »
Missy Cummings, Director of the Humans and Automation Laboratory and a professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, sat down with me for the fifth episode of the Lawfare podcast to talk about robots on our battlefields.
Cummings is … Read more »
We have now had four episodes of The Lawfare Podcast. Each has been downloaded a goodly number of times, so I know that people are listening to the podcast, but I have less sense of what people think of … Read more »
On today’s episode of the podcast, Bobby discusses his encyclopedic new Title 10/Title 50 article with Jack. The article, “Military-Intelligence Convergence and the Law of the Title 10/Title 50 Debate,” has just been published in the Journal of … Read more »
Joel Brenner, who served as inspector general of the National Security Agency and as the national counterintelligence executive in the DNI’s office, joined Jack the other day to discuss his new book, America the Vulnerable: Inside the New Threat Matrix … Read more »
Samuel Rascoff, a law professor at NYU, has a fascinating new article out in the Stanford Law Review entitled, “Establishing Official Islam? The Law and Strategy of Counter-Radicalization.” As someone who is frankly not in love with the law review … 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:
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 »
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Carol Rosenberg wrote about yesterday’s arguments in the 9/11 hearings on defense counsel’s request for access to the Red Cross’s reports of its interviews with the five accused. That’s in the Miami Herald.
Yesterday’s House intelligence committee hearing with top intelligence agency and DOJ officials drew a big crowd and much news: Wired explains the DOJ’s efforts to conceal the NSA’s role… Read more »
