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I always read what Conor Friedersdorf has to say over at the Atlantic. He's thoughtful and focused on the merits, and offers an important libertarian perspective on matters including the NDAA debate. I...
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You can read the edited transcript from the Senate's debate yesterday on the detention provisions here. Previous coverage is available here and here. This includes debate on the Sessions amendment starti...
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[THIRD UPDATE (12/9/11): See here for my updated assessment as to US citizens captured abroad.]
[SECOND UPDATE (12/7/11): Thanks to a flood of emails and calls, I am aware that a great many readers rema...
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New York Times editorial page editor Andy Rosenthal, in his Loyal Opposition blog, opens a post this morning on the NDAA by saying,
When President Obama came into office in 2009 he promised to shut down ...
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Let's start with the NDAA. As Ben noted yesterday, the Senate voted to retain provisions requiring mandatory military custody of terrrorism suspects, report the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times.
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As so many of you have found our earlier post of the Senate debate over the NDAA useful, we wanted to offer legislative materials related to the Senate's deliberations. I will continue to update this po...
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...yet it did get 30 "yea" votes.
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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 ...
