I agree entirely with Ken that DOD General Counsel Jeh Johnson’s speech on the end-of-conflict with al Qaeda “makes a serious attempt to grapple with the conditions defining the endgame” and is “a significant articulation of the US government’s view … Read more »
There has been speculation about the effect of the Obama administration’s pinched detention policy – i.e. no new detainees brought to GTMO, and no new detainees to Parwan (Afghanistan) from outside Afghanistan – on its other counterterrorism policies. I have … Read more »
Today’s report includes the boilerplate-for-such-documents “consistent with the War Powers Resolution” phrase. It also includes the excerpt below regarding counterterrorism efforts in Yemen and Somalia:
In Somalia, the U.S. military has worked to counter the terrorist threat posed by al-Qa’ida
[Update: Ben Weiser’s coverage in the Times points out that real benefit of the plea for Ahmed of course was to avoid the firearms charge, which entailed a thirty year minimum. Ben also confirms that Judge Castel had not yet … Read more »
A correspondent who prefers to remain anonymous point out the following irony. In my recent post on Dan Klaidman’s book, I quoted the following passage:
The discussion continued for close to two hours, with Obama often asking pointed questions
A Fourth Circuit panel has affirmed the convictions of the Somali pirates who in 2010 attacked the USS Nicholas, rejecting their contention that their failure to actually board (let alone seize) the ship during the attack precluded a piracy charge. … Read more »
As Raffaela noted in today’s news summary, it is being reported today that EU naval forces attacked pirate bases on the Somali mainland. Several people have asked: “The EU has a navy?”
The background here is legally, operationally, and diplomatically … Read more »
In response to my post yesterday about looming habeas litigation alleging that the U.S. operates a proxy detention operation in Somalia, Steve Vladeck raises the interesting possibility that the MCA’06 would not apply, that Boumediene thus is beside the point, … Read more »
Friday, May 17, 2013
The Department of Justice’s Inspector General released an interim report on the Department’s handling of “known or suspected” terrorists who have entered the government’s witness protection program. The report found, among other things, that information on some program participants had not been turned over to no-fly list authorities; and, that two such people could not be located—though one… Read more »
