Around 9 p.m. on 4 December 2017, two FBI documents were delivered to the defense teams representing the five Guantánamo detainees on trial in the military commissions for their alleged roles in the 11 September 2001, terrorist attacks. These documents, which the lawyers had been requesting sinc..
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From Reagan to Obama: Secrecy and Covert Operations in the Fight against “Terrorism”
Ronald Reagan was the first American president to put “terrorism” at the heart of his foreign policy discourse. During his first term, Reagan did so mostly in reference to conflicts in Central America. In
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Roundtable on Targeted Killing: The Secret Bureaucracy of Targeted Killing
[This is the fifth part of a six-part series associated with a Jadaliyya roundtable discussing targeted killings . Participants include Richard Falk, Nathan Freed Wessl..