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The latest public development in the long-running fight over the detention provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act occurred last Friday when a group of 13 Senate Democrats (all the Democrats...
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Secretary of State Hilary Clinton staunchly defended the Iraq withdrawal on several Sunday talk shows; her remarks on ABC's The Week are available here, beginning at minute 6:54. However, President Obam...
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An interesting story in the Post this weekend draws attention to the fact that about 7,000 detainees currently are held without criminal charge in various locations throughout Libya, and with varying deg...
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Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, Kenneth Anderson writes of my post yesterday, "What should most concern the Times are the couple of emails I’ve received from several eminent professors, smart and intellec...
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I awoke this morning to a genuine marvel: An actual real-live correction to a New York Times editorial on a national security issue. It reads as follows:
This article has been revised to reflect the foll...
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Ongoing developments in Libya continue to generate abundant news. Most notably, the United Nations has called for an inquiry into Qaddafi's death, reports Nick Cumming Bruce of the New York Times.
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The invaluable Josh Gerstein of the Politico offers these important pieces of the legislative politics puzzle surrounding the Kelly Ayotte amendment, which I wrote about here and here:
The vote, taken ju...
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As you probably have heard already, negotiations to extend the U.S.
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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 ...
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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." ...
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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...
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Judge Reggie Walton today dismissed on standing grounds the lawsuit challenging the legality of the military operation in Libya (via Josh Gerstein). The decision was not remotely surprising, and indeed ...
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In breaking news, Libya's Muammar el-Qaddafi is confirmed dead.
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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...
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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...
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Jeh Johnson's speech at the Heritage Foundation, which Ben discussed in his earlier post, generated a lot of press today: the Washington Post's Peter Finn reports on Johnson's warning against the "over-...
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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...
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Lots going on since the weekend:
Saudi Arabia is pushing for the alleged Iranian assasination plot to be brought to the United Nations in a bit of regional power play, and the Iranian Foreign Ministry d...
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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 ...
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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...
