THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary May 23, 2013  Fact Sheet: U.S. Policy Standards and Procedures for the Use of Force in Counterterrorism Operations Outside the United States and Areas of Act...

There are many important strands to President Obama's national-security speech, but I want to focus on just one particularly noteworthy element. In clear terms, President Obama announced today that the s...

Watch President Obama's speech at National Defense University below:

Before it gets lost in the coverage of this afternoon's speech by the President, I wanted to flag a very important development in the ongoing saga that is the Bradley Manning court-martial.

In his speech this afternoon, the President is expected to announce a renewed effort to close Guantanamo.   This will require hard work, both with Congress and with other countries.   When the President ...

I recently posted an essay, with co-author Sam Issacharoff, on what we conceive to be the key legal, institutional, and process issues concerning the use of drones for targeted killings -- and even more ...

Today, counsel for Saeed Mohammed Hatim filed an "Emergency Motion Concerning Access to Counsel," both in the Yemeni detainee's recently reactivated habeas action, and in In Re: Guantanamo Bay Detainee C...

In advance of the President's speech tomorrow, the Attorney General has just sent this letter to Senator Leahy, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, describing the Administration's legal basis for...

Yesterday, Bobby and I wrote this post about what the President could say in his speech tomorrow on counterterrorism, and we highlighted as one important element the President's repeated pledges of great...

The press scandals keep on coming for the Obama Administration.

With President Obama's big speech tomorrow on counterterrorism policy at National Defense University in mind, Commentary Magazine has been nice enough to post today my June cover essay, "The Case for Dro...

Today we will appear before the House Judiciary Committee, and will argue that Congress should put to rest the question of military detention for domestic captures.  More specifically, we will argue that...

Bill Keller of the NYT urges President Obama to order the Justice Department “to appoint an independent investigator with bulldog instincts and bipartisan credibility” to fully examine the IRS imbroglio ...

Just in time for the President's speech on Thursday, the Hoover Institution has released Chapter 2 of our serialized book: Speaking the Law: The Obama Administration's Addresses on National Security Law....

An administration national security official writes in with the following thoughts on the furor over the warrant application against James Rosen of Fox News: There is a great deal of hyperventilation---m...