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Administrative note: Amazon.com has released a service allowing blogs to install a "Send to Kindle" button on posts that, well, does more or less what it sounds like. I have installed it, because I know ...
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That is the title of Dan Klaidman’s important story:
Three senior U.S. officials tell The Daily Beast that the White House is poised to sign off on a plan to shift the CIA’s lethal targeting program to t...
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I've so far stayed out of the exchange over the last few days between Jack, on the one hand, and Steve and Jennifer Daskal, on the other, about the paper that Jac
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Who says that bipartisanship is dead and that our legislative process doesn't work. For those who despair in all cases, take note today of the joint effort by Senators Leahy and Lee to update the Electr...
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Today is the tenth anniversary of the Iraq invasion. Tim Arango of the New York Times has the sad news that bomb blasts in Baghdad marked the occasion.
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It’s quickly becoming apparent that we and Jack appear to be talking past each other on the merits of the Chesney/Goldsmith/Waxman/Wittes (CGWW) proposal for a new framework statute for “extra-AUMF threa...
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We address all of Jennifer and Steve’s latest arguments in our paper, and so I urge any interested reader to look for responses there. I will limit myself here to one point. Jennifer and Steve believe ...
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Our colleague Ashley Deeks has just published "The Geography of Cyber Conflict: Through a Glass Darkly," as part of the Naval War College's volume of International Law Studies on the geography of war.
T...
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Tomorrow is a significant day—the ten-year anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Here’s NPR’s All Things Considered’s story, including an interview with Bush national security adviser Stephen Hadley....
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Over at the D.C. Exile blog, Ben Farley has this thoughtful post on U.N. Special Rapporteur Ben Emmerson’s recent statement on drone strikes in Pakistan. It concludes:
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I, for one, welcome our eagle-claw grasping robot overlords…
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Former Pentagon General Counsel Jeh Johnson is, at this hour, giving this speech at Fordham Law School in New York:
Keynote address at the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School:
A “Drone Co...
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Jennifer and Steve describe the statutory proposal for next-generation terrorist threats by Bobby, Matt, Ben, and me as a “sweeping and preemptive militarization of counterterrorism” which is “not just u...
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This is pretty interesting. A gentleman on a Chicago Metra train got an entire train detained and searched by walking into the Metra system after a nuclear stress test, which the Mayo Clinic descibes as ...
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In the very first days after the horrific attacks of September 11, 2001, the Bush Administration asked Congress for broad statutory authorization to use military force to “deter and pre-empt any future a...
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Just in case you need one.
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When I testified last month (together with Ben, Bobby, and Steve) before the House Judiciary Committee on the legality of targeted killings, I started and ended my remarks with a plea for more congressio...
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Earlier this week---at the Week, naturally enough---Marc Ambinder posted this piece, "Five Truths about the Drone War." Of the five, the second of Ambinder's verities struck me as most noteworthy. I've...
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This strikes me as a big deal. U.N. Special Rapporteur for Human Rights and Counterterrorism Ben Emmerson has returned from Pakistan and issued a lengthy statement summarizing his discussions with Pakist...
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