My former colleagues on the Washington Post editorial page have weighed in quickly on Eric Holder's speech yesterday with an editorial entitled, "It's Time to Release the Drone Memos." The gravamen of th...

In a surprising development, less than a week after last Tuesday's oral argument in Kiobel v.

In this post, I focus on the portion of the speech addressing the targeted use of lethal force, including against US citizens. To cut to the chase, the heart of the discussion comes when the Attorney Gen...

As promised, Attorney General Holder delivered an address on law and national security today at Northwestern Law.  The speech covered an array of topics, including a defense of the legitimacy of military...

The Times has an important story from Alissa Rubin this morning describing the ongoing negotiations between the US and Afghanistan regarding the future of the US presence there.  We have frequently heard...

In an earlier post, I summarized the information sharing provisions of the Lieberman-Collins cybersecurity bill.  In this post, I want to take the same summary approach to the newly introduced McCain bil...

From London24, which bills itself as "London for Londoners," we learn that "Ex-Guantanamo Detainee from East Ham Attacked Traffic Warden": Tarek Dergoul, of Holland Road, East Ham, was in a bicycle shop ...

Peter Margulies writes in with the following analysis of British proposals to reform the European Court of Human Rights: The European Court of Human Rights has increasingly become a tribunal pushing back...

Attorney General Eric Holder will apparently give a public address on Monday that will provide a fuller explanation and justification for the government's policies on targeted killings, including for the...

I promised yesterday that I would have more to say about Andrea Prasow's comments on the fairness of the Majid Khan plea agreement after I had a chance to stew on them a bit. In the meantime, I have lear...

In a conversation several years ago about what was then simply a hypothesized US military exit from Afghanistan, a friend told me, think of the CIA as the French Foreign Legion.  My friend meant by that ...

In an interview with Jeff Goldberg late last week, President Obama stated that a U.S.

Yesterday, I posed a question to Human Rights Watch in response to some comments in the Washington Post by an official of the organization, Andrea Prasow.

In today's Washington Post, Peter Finn has an excellent story on the comparative leniency of sentencing in military commissions to date compared with sentencing in federal court. In it, he reports the fo...

Before the terms of Majid Khan's plea deal emerged, some conservatives were preemptively outraged by its reported terms. Marc Thiessen denounced as "astounding" what he called  "The idea that the Obama a...