According to this Talking Points Memo piece, Attorney General Eric Holder today sent another letter to Senator Rand Paul, regarding the latter's inquiries on the executive branch's authority to conduct d...

So reports the Wall Street Journal: A son-in-law of Osama bin Laden and longtime suspected member of al Qaeda has been captured by U.S. officials, who are preparing to bring him to the U.S.

Much of what passes for analysis of cyber threats these days is episodic and anecdotal.  I confess, reluctantly, that despite my own best efforts I sometimes fall into that trap.  I also confess that som...

That's right... Henry V. Royal Shakespeare Company he's not, but here's the junior senator from Texas's rendition (pun intended) of the St. Crispin's Day Speech---and his explanation of how it relates to...

The New York Times recently carried two reports by Declan Walsh about alleged drone strikes that took place in Pakistan’s tribal areas in February. The first report noted that the strikes may have been c...

Greg Miller and Karen DeYoung have this important story in the Washington Post: "Administration Debates Stretching 9/11 Law To Go After New al-Qaeda Offshoots."  It cites unnamed Administration officials...

I don't normally---or ever, really---write posts based on law firm press releases. But I'm going to make an exception this time for this announcement by Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe about Robert Loeb: ...

There is a connection between Senator Paul’s filibuster and the need for a comprehensive renewal of presidential authorities for the administration’s stealth counterterrorism tactics (i.e., the cluster o...

In the latest twist in the long-running ATS and TVPA suit against him, former Somali Defense Minister Mohamed Ali Samantar filed on Monday for certiorari after the Fourth Circuit's surprising decision la...

Jack is certainly right that Senator Paul "is painting a misleadingly very unattractive picture of the circumstances in which the United States uses drones abroad in words that will now be played around ...

Over at the Lawyers, Guns, and Money blog, Robert Farley has an interesting post taking me to task for ignoring the siege of Harfleur in my discussion of Henry V and the law of armed conflict. Farley quo...

Recall that Senator Paul asked John Brennan whether he believed the President “has the authority to order lethal force, such as a drone strike, against a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil, and without a trial?,”...

In its latest transparency report published this week, Google began sharing very general data about the number of National Security Letters (NSLs) it receives from the FBI or other government agencies se...

As the New York Times reports, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has been speaking on the Senate floor since before noon in an effort to filibuster the nomination of John Brennan, President Obama’s chief counterter...

Carrie Cordero, Georgetown’s Director of National Security Studies and a former Justice Department official, writes in with the following useful compilation of administration warnings about the effects o...

The other day, Steve wrote a post noting a letter from habeas counsel at Guantanamo to the effect that "all but a few" detainees are currently on hunger strike to protest searches and confiscations and a...

Back in January, we devoted a fair amount of attention to the DOJ Supplemental Brief in the al-Bahlul military commission appeal--and the rather significant internal debate within the Administration abou...