Continuing Lawfare's discussion of the Drone White Paper, we're pleased to publish the following guest post by Geoffrey Corn on the question of threat identification and the use of force; our thanks to h...

John Bellinger and Christoper Anders of the ACLU this morning had a discussion of John Brennan's testimony, drone strikes, and the administration's legal positions on CSPAN's Washington Journal this morn...

NPR's Weekend Edition ran the following extended interview with me this morning on the subject of drone strikes, the White Paper, and the administration's legal views more generally. It isn't anything ne...

The most interesting element in Scott Shane’s interesting story on the growing pressure for a Court to vet drone strikes (which quotes Bobby several times) is that the ACLU opposes it.  Shane says that H...

Ben Emmerson, the Special Rapportuer for Human Rights who is conducting an inquiry into the legality of (among other things) U.S.

From the New Yorker: U.S. CANCELS REGULAR DRONE STRIKES ON SATURDAYS WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Citing budgetary concerns, the United States announced today that it would discontinue regular Satur...

Lawfare is always pleased to note new books by friends and contributors, tag them as Readings, and encourage discussion of them here and around the web.  So please welcome Curtis Bradley's brand-new book...

Here's a counter-intuitive view of the White Paper--from the always-interesting Andrew Kent: Although many critics with a strong civil liberties and human rights bent deplore the DOJ White Paper for vari...

John Yoo has a piece in the WSJ which argues that the real problem with the White Paper is that it extends due process protections to enemy combatants on the battlefield, thereby threatening to diminish ...

There is an increasing amount of talk about judicial review for at least some decisions to place specific persons on targeting lists for the use of lethal force outside of a combat zone (drones are not t...

I asked the other day what was becoming of the persons who presumably were being captured by French, Malian, or other forces fighting the Islamist extremists in Mali.  Turns out there are a couple of ans...

The problems that Rick recently identified with how both the DOJ White Paper and its critics treat the concept of "imminence"  --- specifically, that they are borrowing a concept generated in a domestic ...

(Updated and extended.)  The White Paper's reference to imminence has occasioned some heated rhetoric about the Obama administration stretching the notion beyond all possible ordinary meaning or bounds, ...

That's the word from James Connell III, an attorney for 9/11 accused Ammar al-Baluchi. The commission's ruling---issued yesterday in connection with the case's much-discussed "who pressed the button" ep...

Amid the flurry of writing about the White Paper’s approach to “imminence” – an important conversation, to be sure – little attention has been paid to a paragraph in the White Paper that seems to establi...

They can be found here, and (as is typical, and from the nominee’s perspective, desirable), they contain little news. In response to Question 7 on the CIA’s paramilitary role, Brennan says: “The CIA, a ...

So reports Politico's Jennifer Epstein and Josh Gerstein: President Obama has reversed course and agreed to provide the congressional intelligence committees with classified Justice Department legal advi...