In case you missed it: on March 15, attorneys for the Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg filed this FOIA action against the Department of Defense (h/t Legal Times).  Rosenberg's complaint begins as follows: 1.

Ritika linked yesterday to a new Gallup poll on public attitudes towards drone strikes. The results are not surprising, but they are interesting. Americans largely support drone strike against foreign te...

Stewart Baker points to a provision in Congress’s continuing resolution that is the first serious attempt I have seen to punish (as opposed to rail against) China for its cybersecurity practices.    Sect...

Philip Carter and Deborah Pearlstein have posted a thoughtful essay at Foreign Policy that emphasizes the utility of civilian criminal prosecution as a counterterrorism option.  I very much agree with th...

The Ahmed Warsame case (Warsame is the al Shabaab member captured by US forces while attempting to return to Somalia after a period of training with AQAP in Yemen, who was then held for two months in mil...

Ben has already noted that the United States and Afghahnistan struck a deal to resume the process of handing over the remnants of U.S.

Even for those keeping up with the Guantánamo litigation, this decision by Chief Judge Lamberth, a declassified version of which was released on Friday, may have slipped under the radar. The specific iss...

James Lewis had an op-ed yesterday in the WP about “Five Myths About Chinese Hackers.”  The fifth myth: 5. America spies on China, too, so what can we complain about? Chinese officials portray their cou...

Although most Supreme Court watchers are focused on the two gay marriage cases to be argued before the Court on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week (NB: I signed the brief submitted by former Republican o...

Over at the graphical Drawnward blog, Caitlin Fitz Gerald has figured out an interesting way of illustrating our increasingly polarized attitudes over drones. She typed "drones are" into Google and grabb...

Both the New York Times and Washington Post are reporting that U.S. and Afghan officials have resolved the dispute over the transfer of authority over the Detention Facility at Parwan to Afghanistan.

The WSJ has a story (behind paywall, I think) about the CIA “expanding its role in the campaign against the Syrian regime by feeding intelligence to select rebel fighters to use against government forces...

My wife and I live on Capitol Hill.  Every morning we go for a walk.  Today, at 9 AM, as we were coming up the Hill we passed the Supreme Court ....

. . . perhaps supplies a mid-day Moment of Zen.  I refer to 577 N.E. 2d 926 (Ill. Ct. App. 1991).  You may know the case by its title, In Re: Marriage of Drone.  Appellate Court of Illinois,Fifth Distri...

As Ben and Gregory McNeal posted earlier, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Counterterrorism and Human Rights, Ben Emmerson, issued this statement on March 14 after a three-day visit to Pakistan, ...

Jhesus-Maria, King of England, and you, Duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the Kingdom of France, you, Guillaume de la Poule, count of Suffort, Jean, sire of Talbot, and you, Thomas, sire of Sc...

Mary Dudziak has a truly bizarre oped in the New York Times today taking on the Obama administration's drone wars on, let's just say, a new basis: that President Nixon once secretly bombed Cambodia. I'm...

In my prior posts I discussed the process of targeted killing, and some of the accountability mechanisms embedded in the process.  This post, and my next and final post will address reform recommendation...