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The recent controversy about the Justice Department White Paper and the closely related Senate confirmation hearings for CIA director-nominee John Brennan have raised the profile of congressional intelli...
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Here's an update on the status of Section 11 of the STOCK Act, the law enacted last year that would have required 28,000 senior executive officials (and senior military officers) to post their financial ...
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Further to Jack's post yesterday on the politics of drones versus enhanced interrogation, and my post earlier in the week about Peter Baker's article about the mounting criticism of the Obama Administrat...
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Fawzia Koofi (website, Twitter) is an Afghan Member of Parliament and Vice President of the Afghan National Assembly. She is also running for President of Afghanistan in the planned April 2014 elections,...
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While Ben has often mocked the New York Times for its opinions, the Washington Post has mostly escaped our attention. To a large degree this reflects the level-headedness of its opinions. So when it sl...
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Voice of America Urdu produces a weekly webcast called "Access Point with Ayesha Tanzeem," which, this week, focused on U.S. drone policy and the legality of targeted killing in light of President Obama'...
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Yes: Senate Republicans took an unprecedented step yesterday in preventing the invocation of cloture on their former colleague Chuck Hagel's nomination to be the Secretary of Defense.
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In an interview last weekend, Congressman Mike Rogers, the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, gave unambiguous acknowledgment of CIA involvement in drone strikes. The ACLU attached the interv...
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They are available here. Lots of interesting stuff on a first quick read, but two thing stand out. First, in response to the question “Could the Administration carry out drone strikes inside the United...
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Via this thoughtful essay by Pejman Yousefzadeh, I learned about this recent CNN interview by Candy Crowley of former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. Gates notes his support for drone strikes (he cal...
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The flourishing market in zero-day vulnerabilities is, as these two recent scary stories indicate, a major cybersecurity challenge. Herb Lin, the chief scientist at the Computer Science and Telecommunic...
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I'm not sure if this is by accident or on purpose, but the New York Times yesterday proposed advanced judicial review of a huge swath of targeting in warfare against terrorist groups.
Consider the first...
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We return from an hour’s break, with some GTMO press refreshed by milkshakes purchased from Fort Meade’s Burger King. A video teleconference with CDR Jennifer Strazza, our next witness, awaits. Some nu...
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A tale of two confirmations:
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Nine minutes past the hour, and the session resumes with some bickering about delays. Recess was supposed to last until 1300, but, alas, we’ve reconvened a bit after that. Judge Pohl wants an explanat...
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“The commission is called to order,” Judge Pohl says. Back to CDR Walter Ruiz, and his witness: the Convening Authority, with a visage grainy in the video-teleconference monitor (itself piped to us here...
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The Convening Authority, Ret. Adm. Bruce MacDonald, is sworn.
CDR Walter Ruiz, lawyer for accused Mustafa al-Hawsawi, rises to question him. It will be a quick-ish examination, evidently, as Judge Pohl...
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Romance is in the air---and waves of the purest judicial authority---as Judge Pohl calls our session to order. The five men accused of planning 9/11 are present in the courtroom, along with lawyers for ...
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So how will you ring in this Hallmark Holiday? Lawfare recommends a bouquet of long-stem, CCTV-broadcasted, almost-live hearings from Guantanamo, in the military commission case of United States v. Moha...
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My Brookings colleague Allan Friedman, a cybersecurity expert, sent me the following brief note following the State of the Union and the concurrent release of the president's executive order on cybersecu...
