National Security Advisors

"A national security law blog."

Author: The law professors who post here: Robert M. Chesney of Wake Forest University; Steve Vladeck of the University of Miami; Tung Yin of the University of Iowa, who also authors The Yin Blog; Geoff Corn of the University of Iowa; David Glazier of Loyola Marymount University-Los Angeles; Victor Hansen of New England School of Law, Andrew Kent of Fordham University, and Amos Guiora of the University of Utah, who also posts at AIDP Blog.

Recent Posts from National Security Advisors

Forthcoming scholarship: Sealing on FSIA and Due Process; Reich on SCR 1267 and Due Process; Michaels on Private Sector Checks on the Intelligence Community
State Sponsors of Terrorism are Entitled to Due Process Too: The Amended Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act is Unconstitutional Keith Sealing (University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law) In 1996, Congress, as part of the Antiterrorism…
Links to the Stay Motion and Release Order in the GTMO Uighur Detention Litigation
The government has filed an emergency motion seeking a stay of Judge Urbina's order directing the government to release the 17 Uighur detainees at GTMO into the United States. The stay application is posted here.…
Two Detainees Transferred from GTMO
Two more GTMO detainees have been repatriated, one to Algeria and one to Sudan. This leaves about 255 detainees still at GTMO (counting the Uighur detainees).
DOJ promulgates new AG Guidelines consolidating the rules regarding FBI operations in the US
DOJ has released the new Attorney General Guidelines for FBI domestic operations. They are posted here.
2d Circuit reverses material support convictions, citing improper admission of hearsay evidence and immaterial/inflammatory evidence
United States v. Al-Moayad (2d Cir. Oct. 2, 2008) The 2nd Circuit has reversed and vacated the material support convictions of Mohammed Ali Al-Moayad and Mohammed Mohsen Zayed (involving fundraising for HAMAS), on the ground…
CNSL event on the recent USN shoot-down of a falling satellite
Center for National Security Law (Virginia), "The Shoot-Down of the Failing NRO Satellite: Implications for ICBM Missile Defense" (Oct. 9, 2008) http://www.virginia.edu/cnsl/pdf/shoot-down_of_nro_satellite_2008.pdf The Center for National Security Law will host a Capitol Hill Forum on…
Shareef receives 35 year sentence in grenade plot
United States v. Shareef (N.D. Ill Oct. 1, 2008) In November 2007, Derrick Shareef pled guilty to attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction in violation of 18 USC 2332a in connection to set…
District Court rejects Bivens claim by citizen detained in Iraq, but warns against delay in detention screening
Kar v. Rumsfeld (D.D.C. Sep. 26, 2008) A very interesting opinion by Judge Robertson. Cyrus Kar is a US citizen who was arrested in Baghdad in 2005, and subsequently held by the US military for…
CTLab presents "Social Sciences in War: Defending Hamdan"
My friend Michael Innes at CTLab sends word that they are hosting an online symposium this week relating to Salim Hamdan, with a particular focus on the experience of historian Brian Glyn Williams as an…
Backgrounder on proposed revisions to AG Guidelines
* Consolidated Attorney General Guidelines – Background Briefing (9/13/08) I don't have a copy of the draft Consolidated AG Guidelines to circulate, but those who are interested in the topic might want to review the…