In October, when our most recent motions hearing concluded in United States v.

I'm not really an Iran person, and I don't have strong feelings about the right or wrong way to handle the Iranian nuclear program. But I nonetheless enjoyed---and found rather informative---this Truman ...

In remarks today on the Floor, Senator Reid promised that the Lieberman-Collins cybersecurity bill would return to the floor before Thanksgiving.  Here is the rough transcript of what he said: WE'RE GOIN...

On Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Stuxnet, the virus that targeted Iran's uranium enrichment program and that is generally thought to have been created jointly by the United States and Isr...

While I am sure we differ in emphasis and details, I agree with the thrust of Trevor’s latest post.  As I argued in my last two books, the early Bush administration approach to presidential power was, in...

I appreciate Jack's follow-up post on the larger picture of the Obama administration's counterterrorism policies and their points of continuity with the Bush administration (though only the late Bush, as...

When I wrote on Friday about the “basic counterterrorism policies that Obama continued, with tweaks, from the late Bush administration,” I meant to refer only to policies that “Obama continued” from the ...

I agree with much of what Jack says in his recent post about the counterterrorism issues likely to face President Obama in his second term.

In connection with the Petraeus matter, the NYT reports: The Federal Bureau of Investigation did not inform the Senate and House Intelligence Committees about the inquiry until this week, according to Co...

David Remes, who represents several Yemeni detainees at Guantanamo Bay, writes in response to my comments this morning on Eric Lewis's New York Times column: Ben chides Eric Lewis for setting goals Ben t...

Yesterday, I linked to this new blog---called the Air Force General Counsel Blog. I asked Air Force General Counsel Charles Blanchard about the project. He responded: Our hopes for the blog are modest.  ...

So reports NBC News, which apparently obtained a copy of Petraeus' statement to the CIA workforce.  From the NBC report's opening: CIA Director David Petraeus resigned Friday, citing an extramarital affa...

Back in June, I wrote a fairly lengthy post analyzing the ability of detainees in U.S. custody facing extradition or other involuntary transfer to a foreign sovereign to challenge their transfer pursuant...

One important consequence of President Obama’s re-election will be the further entrenchment, and legitimation, of the basic counterterrorism policies that Obama continued, with tweaks, from the late Bush...

Writing at the New York Times web site, Eric Lewis of Lewis Baach, describes a human rights agenda for the Obama administration's second term: First, he must release certain Guantánamo detainees, who hav...

I was struck by this report of a recent oral argument in the 2nd Circuit involving a terrorism prosecution.  The defendant (and his co-conspirators) were convicted of having plotted to blow up a synagogu...