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As I noted the other day, I invited Pepperdine law professor Gregory McNeal to write a guest post summarizing his new article on U.S. targeting standards. He sent in the following:
Thanks to Lawfare f...
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The amendment to the Senate NDAA by Senator Mark Udall to strip out the detention provisions of the bill has gone down. The vote, 37 for it, and 61 against, wasn't even close.
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First off, a bit of administrative business concerning the news and commentary feature going forward. While I was camped out in my undisclosed location, Ritika handled the news. Now that I am back, she a...
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FBI Director Robert S.
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The government has filed a reply brief in the dispute over whether Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al Bahlul's counsel, Michel Paradis, properly represents Al Bahlul in the D.C. Circuit appeal of his military co...
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Reviewed by Kenneth Anderson
Prisoners in War Ed. Sibylle Scheipers (Oxford 2010)
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Welcome back. I hope you ate your fill of turkey and pumpkin pie, and if you were one of the fearless souls who braved the Black Friday mobs, that you returned home triumphant, in one piece, and without ...
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Four Five amicus briefs have been filed in the D.C.
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I had an op-ed over the weekend arguing that last week’s Defense Department report to Congress – which announced for the first time a policy of using offensive cyber weapons in response to threats or use...
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Lawfare Book Review Editor Kenneth Anderson is planning, in short order, to launch a new feature flagging and recommending must-read scholarship in the world of national security and law--a matter on whi...
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Over the past month, according to data from Google Analytics, Lawfare's readership has hailed overwhelmingly--as always--from the United States (nearly 86 percent of visitors). Readers from the United Ki...
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Senator Mark Udall of Colorado is pushing an amendment to the NDAA to strip the bill of its detainee-affairs provisions and require further study of the relevant issues from both the executive branch and...
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I missed this before Thanksgiving, I'm afraid, but fortunately, the invaluable Josh Gerstein did not:
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper is joining the chorus of Obama administration voices ...
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I am going to take a blogging break over the next 24 hours to confront a profound Thanksgiving challenge: What one feeds vegetarians that is somehow in keeping with the thematic spirit of a dinner whose ...
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I have one thought to add to Bobby's observations yesterday about the legal implications of finishing off the Al Qaeda core in Pakistan. House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon has taken a be...
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Tomorrow you may gorge on turkey, but you're about to go on a four-day news and commentary diet. So here's your fix before the fast.
Let's start with last night's GOP debate on national security, which ...
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Greg Miller of the Washington Post has an important story this morning addressing the possibility that the original al Qaeda network is but a drone strike or two away from eradication:
The leadership ran...
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The Republican presidential candidates debated national security and foreign policy issues last night in Washington. Ritika teed up the debate here with links to the Post’s preview of issues to watch and...
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The eight Republican candidates for president will gather tonight for their trillionth twelfth debate at 8 PM tonight, in an event that will focus on national security and foreign policy.
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More developments in the Jose Pimentel case: The Associated Press reports on how this case ended up in New York state court, rather than as a federal case:
The NYPD’s Intelligence Division had sought to ...
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