Pardiss Kebriaei writes in with the following response to my admittedly harsh summary of her D.C. Circuit argument in Al-Zahrani, in which I suggested that she had no good answer to a pretty basic jurisd...

My colleague Noah Feldman has an interesting essay on Bloomberg that draws connections between the controversial Bush-era legal opinions on interrogation and President Obama's targeted killing policy.  T...

Drone strikes in Southern Yemen killed nine members of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) on Friday, including Ibrahim al-Bana, the terrorist organization's media chief, and, according to tribal el...

That is the headline from ABC News.  The War Powers Resolution notification to Congress states in part: I have authorized a small number of combat-equipped U.S. forces to deploy to central Africa to prov...

The D.C. Circuit appears to have ruled in the case of Adnan Farhan Abd Al Latif (which Larkin previewed here, the briefs from which she posted here, the argument in which she and I covered here). Latif w...

Jack highlighted a Wired story last week about a computer virus infecting the Air Force's drone fleet, including the virtual "cockpits" at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada.

From the Washington Post: Large caches of weapons from Libya are making their way across the Egyptian border and flooding black markets in Egypt’s already unstable Sinai Peninsula, according to current a...

So reports NPR here.

The first thing to say about today's long-belated New York Times editorial on the Al-Aulaqi killing--and the memo justifying it--is that it is not a ridiculous document, and I'm not going to ridicule it....

Better late that never, the New York Times has finally run an editorial on the Al Aulaqi strike. This makes it impossible to accept new entries in the Write the New York Times Al-Aulaqi Editorial Compet...

This is a pretty remarkable development.  Authorities have arrested a dual US-Iranian citizen on charges that he conspired with a senior official of Iran's Qods Force (of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionar...

Jacob Sternberger, a political science and security studies major at Dickinson College, has the distinction of sending in the first entry in Lawfare's Write the New York Times Al-Aulaqi Editorial Competi...

Reading the blogs today, you might think Marty Lederman and David Barron had gotten deeply in touch with their inner John Yoo when they wrote the Al-Aulaqi memo. Spencer Ackerman, to cite a typical examp...

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan has released its report on the treatment of detainees in the custody of the Afghan government. Here is the executive summary: From October 2010 to Au...

Next Tuesday, October 18, at The Heritage Foundation: [T]he House and Senate have proposed additional detainee-related legislation in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2012.  Both have pro...

I want to put discussion of whether the government should publicly disclose the full legal framework behind its targeted killings program, including the killing of Al-Aulaqi, an American citizen, in a la...