As you probably have heard already, negotiations to extend the U.S.

Over at Opinio Juris, Lawfare Book Review Editor Ken Anderson raises a series of important questions about the CIA drone program.  In that post, Ken very kindly notes the relationship of these questions ...

A couple of military commission developments worth mention. First, al Nashiri has filed a motion "To Determine If the Trial of this Case Is One From Which the Defendant May Be Meaningfully Acquitted."  ...

The Kelly Ayotte amendment I discussed yesterday was voted down late last night, reports the Associated Press: WASHINGTON — The Senate voted early Friday to reject a Republican effort to prohibit the Uni...

Another unpleasant proposed spending restriction related to trying suspected terrorists--this time from Senator Kelly Ayotte. This is a proposed amendment to an appropriations bill for the Justice Depart...

Here is the text of Pentagon General Counsel Jeh Johnson's comments on AUMF reaffirmation, which I discussed yesterday in this post: CULLY STIMSON: . . . there are proposals on the Hill regarding reaffir...

I had been waiting for the video of Pentagon General Counsel Jeh Johnson's speech at the Heritage Foundation to be released to post thoughts it. But I awoke this morning to press coverage of the speech t...

The text of the speech that Jeh Johnson, General Counsel of the Department of Defense, gave at the Heritage Foundation earlier today is available here. We will post the video of the event, including the ...

Kim Zetter at Wired writes this afternoon of the discovery of a strain of malware that appears to build in significant part on components of Stuxnet--but that functions more as a reconnaisance tool enabl...

Jeh Johnson, the General Counsel of the Department of Defense, is currently speaking about detention legislation at the Heritage Foundation. The livestream is available here.

Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker of the NYT report that the Obama administration considered using offensive cyber-weapons in the war in Libya, but in the end did not use them.  Schmitt and Shanker give seve...

As I've noted before (including this morning), I’ve been at work for some time on a paper exploring the legal issues generated by the convergence of military and intelligence activities and institutions—...

Cully Stimson (Heritage) has posted a very handy review of the pros and cons of the pending NDAA FY12 bills, highlighting both the useful and problematic aspects of that legislation.  And as a reminder, ...

Published by Hoover Institution Press (2011) Reviewed by Kenneth Anderson

Yesterday Jack linked to this piece by Noah Feldman, which among other things advances the argument that the Obama administration has resorted to drone strikes at least in part in order to avoid having t...