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The weather is fine. The adrenaline is pumping. It's a perfect day for drone dog-fighting.
While thanks to the FAA, you cannot attend the Smackdown, we will post video of each of the four rounds as quic...
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The following is a guest post from Chris Jenks. Chris formerly was a Judge Advocate and Chief of the International Law Branch at the U.S. Army’s Office of The Judge Advocate General. Now he is an assis...
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So we learn from Politico's Josh Gerstein, who filed this report yesterday.
Here's how Gerstein's piece begins:
The U.S.
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Ellen Nakashima has an interesting piece in the Post describing Iranian computer network operations directed at U.S.
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Shane Harris, official judge of the Lawfare Drone Smackdown, emailed the five remaining combatants (one has dropped out) the following concerning the order of combat on Sunday: Combatants, After ...
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I had to restrain myself this morning at the D.C. Circuit from interrupting proceedings with an emergency request for an on-the-spot ruling in Wittes v. FAA---a case which has admittedly does not exist--...
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At the risk of tooting my own horn a bit, I am pleased to announce the publication of "Drones in U.S.
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Some of them, apparently swim. DHS is looking to develop a robotic tuna for missions in the maritime domain. Talk about your Moments of Zen. Happy Friday.
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Let’s begin with the continuing reports of protests and violence in the Arab world over the non-innocent film “Innocence of Muslims.” Pakistan experienced the “worst single day of deadly violence in one ...
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Here’s your three-part read-out from yesterday’s argument in ACLU v. CIA, or the FOIA action seeking CIA documents about drones.
By way of summary, a three judge panel of the D.C. Circuit, comprised of ...
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…is that we won't have any protesters coming to "bear witness."
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I received a call this afternoon from a gentleman named Cliff Sweatte, an aviation inspector for the Federal Aviation Administration, in response to my post of Sunday about the legality of our holding th...
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Published by Oxford University Press (2012)
Reviewed by Rick Wilson
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The American and Libyan investigators can't seem to agree about the source of the attack that killed Ambassador Stevens in Libya. Dina Temple-Raston of NPR writes that the U.S. says that it was a spontan...
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Per Ben's and Bobby's responses to my post from earlier this week, I think one point needs to be made crystal clear: If Ben and Bobby are correct, then the phrase "substantial support" in the March 13 br...
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Today the D.C. Circuit will hear oral argument concerning the ACLU’s FOIA request to the CIA for records related to the government’s program of targeted killing via “drones.” Cutting through the statuto...
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I'd like to expand on Ben's post below in relation to Hedges and the First Amendment, focusing on the "material support"/"substantial support" issue. (I'm having to write quickly, so please excuse any t...
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OK. I admit it. I made up the quote that is the title of this post. Senator Rockefeller never said any such thing. But he did almost as much by demonstrating (probably by accident) why industry fear ...
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The other day, in response to Raha Wala’s comments on Hedges, I promised to address the First Amendment question at the heart of Judge Forrest’s ruling---a promise that seems to have excited David Remes....
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Harold Koh, Legal Adviser to the State Department, delivered an important speech yesterday, September 18, at the U.S. Cyber Command Inter-Agency Legal Conference on the applicability of international law...
