Terrorism & Violent Extremism

Just Security provides expert legal and policy analysis of terrorism, counterterrorism, and domestic and international violent extremism.

× Clear Filters
2,228 Articles
Just Security

Key Findings in New UN Special Rapporteur Report on Drones

The UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, Ben Emmerson, has now released the final report on…
Just Security

United Nations Releases New Report on Drones

[Editor’s note: Emmerson’s drone report is also publicly available on the UN website.] Last year, two UN Special Rapporteurs released major reports on drones — a…
Just Security

The United States Cannot be at War With an Ideology

Testifying to the House Armed Services Committee this morning on the state of the Special Operations Command, Admiral William McRaven said that now that core al Qaeda has been…
Just Security

Lithuanian Prosecutors Open Probe into CIA Black Site

The Lithuanian Prosecutor General’s Office has opened a pre-trial investigation into allegations that a Saudi Guantánamo detainee, Mustafa al-Hawsawi was held at a secret CIA…
Just Security

Miranda: Blame Parliament Before Blaming the Courts

In August 2013, David Miranda, partner of journalist Glenn Greenwald, was transiting through Heathrow, on his way from Germany to Brazil when he was detained and searched under…
Just Security

More Executive-Minded than the Executive

The English judiciary continues to show its habit of subservience to the government on security matters. In August 2013, David Miranda, who was carrying a hard disk with files…
Just Security

Al Darbi Pleads Guilty but Questions Remain [UPDATED re AE168]

In news today from the military commissions in Guantanamo Bay, Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Haza al Darbi pled guilty to charges brought against him—charges which arose from his role…
Just Security

The al Iraqi Case and the Future of Military Commissions

This morning’s New York Times features a story by Charlie Savage about yesterday’s addition of a conspiracy charge to the pending military commission proceeding at…
Just Security

Benghazi Oversight: What New Congressional Reports Tell Us about Committee Clients

This week, the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) issued a 31-page majority interim report on the September 11-12, 2012 attack on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya.  The HASC…
Just Security

Do “Extrajudicial Releases” of Afghan Detainees Violate International Law?: The Missing Legal Arguments

Today’s release of detainees by Afghan authorities, from the Parwan detention facility near Bagram airfield, has met with strong responses by the US embassy in Kabul (here) and…
Just Security

The True Significance of Judge Tatel’s Opinion in the Force-Feeding Appeal

As Wells already flagged over at Lawfare, the D.C. Circuit decided Aamer v. Obama this morning — the effort by some of the Guantánamo detainees to challenge the force-feeding…
Just Security

What the No Fly List Teaches Us About Big Data

Shirin beat me to the punch in her excellent discussion of the court’s order in the first-ever no fly list case to be decided on the merits (an issue I previously discussed here).…
1-12 of 2,228 items

DON'T MISS A THING. Stay up to date with Just Security curated newsletters: