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For those following Section 11 of the STOCK Act, this afternoon President Obama signed S. 3625, which delays until December 8 the dangerous and short-sighted requirement in Section 11 of the STOCK Act th...
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You can’t make this stuff up.
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Secretary Clinton said as much yesterday, but it's now official: the U.S. has confirmed that Al Qaeda is linked to the attack in Bengazi. Here's the Washington Post story. And over in Libya, the lack of ...
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Jack linked yesterday to this Charlie Savage story about this internal Romney campaign draft memo urging a full-throated embrace of “enhanced interrogation”---written a year ago by Romney’s “national sec...
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My law partner (and former CIA General Counsel) Jeff Smith and I have an op-ed in today's Washington Post (entitled "Is It Legal to Hit Iran?" in the print edition) discussing the U.S. and international...
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Briefing is now complete on the government’s motion to stay pending appeal in Hedges v. Obama. (You’ll recall that a circuit judge already stayed the district court’s order temporarily, pending resoluti...
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Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor, Brig. Gen. Mark Martins, is giving at this hour the following address at Chatham House in London:
Remarks of Brigadier General Mark Martins
Chief Prosecutor of Uni...
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This remarkable Wall Street Journal story came out over Yom Kippur, so I'm late in commenting on it. But it's worth everyone's attention. It opens:
About once a month, the Central Intelligence Agency sen...
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The Georgetown Center on National Security and the Law just posted the following job opportunity:
National Security Law Fellowship
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The Pentagon has permitted its employees to "get their hands on" Mark Owen's book, but can't discuss, blog or tweet about "potentially classified or sensitive contents of NED".
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The DoD has distributed a memo to its employees explaining its stance on Mark Owen's book No Easy Day, and I've got it right here (they even give the book an acronym!). It lays out guidelines for how Pen...
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Charlie Savage of the NYT has an interesting piece on a memorandum entitled “Interrogation Techniques” that Savage reports was circulated last year among the Romney campaign’s “National Security Law Subc...
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This is the third in a series of interviews I am doing with scholars around Washington D.C. who have non-legal expertise that bears on the national security legal questions near and dear to the hearts of...
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Scott Shane raises important questions in his article today about transparency and offensive U.S. cyber capabilities and operations. There are lessons to be learned from the U.S. experience with respect...
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Washingtonian writer and respected, strict-constructionist Smackdown judge Shane Harris has this piece on last Sunday's Main Event. Here's how it begins:
Sunday was a great day for flying. Flying drones...
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Adam Entous, Siobhan Gorman, and Evan Perez of the Wall Street Journal have this must-read article about the degree to which Pakistanis give the United States its consent for drone strikes. Ben, Ken, and...
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Carrie Johnson had this piece about the Smackdown on NPR’s “All Things Considered” yesterday. It begins: National Security Experts Go Rogue For 'Drone Smackdown'
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That's the report from James Connell III, a lawyer for 9/11 defendant Ammar al Baluchi. Connell's statement provides, in full:
9/11 prosecution retreats from presumptive classification
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BBC News reports that the European Court of Human Rights has agreed to the extradition of Abu Hamza---the Muslim cleric accused of planning a terrorist training camp in the United States---as well as fou...
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John Villasenor---a Brookings colleague who is also a professor of electrical engineering at UCLA---has done a lot of policy work on domestic drone use. He writes in with the following thoughts on the Sm...
