Jack has already posted, while I was in transit, Dan Klaidman's account of the White House's sponsoring of leaks in connection with the Baitullah Mehsud drone strike. The full account reads as follows: W...

Andy McCarthy has an interesting post on the just-opened leak investigations.  He garners more reasons than I did to think that many of the recent high-profile leaks – not just on drones, but also on the...

This is kind of related to national security: Ben, who is a black belt in taekwondo and training for his second-degree test, breaks five boards: Ouch.

Memo to Eric Holder and President Obama: Next time you decide to break big news on a Friday afternoon, can you please check with me to make sure I'm not getting on a 24 hour flight first? It seemed like ...

One item in Jack's post on the upcoming leak investigations caught my eye -- he noted that "It is hard to discover leakers without access to journalists’ testimony or notes (which are hard to obtain)." ...

The scope of the leak investigations announced by Attorney General Holder yesterday remains unclear.  Holder appointed U.S.

Here is his statement: “Today, I assigned U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Ronald C. Machen Jr. and U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J.

President Obama, today, on the possibility of leaks from the White House: The notion that the White House would purposely release classified national security information is offensive, it's wrong, and pe...

If you don't already follow Gregory Johnsen's Yemen-focused blog, you should.  His most recent post, which talks about the complexities associated with attributing AQAP membership to particular persons i...

Writing in the Boston Review, Georgetown professor David Luban has this essay on President Obama's drone war and just war theory, in which aides report the president is steeped: This image of a president...

Ben Weiser of the New York Times wrote in today, and reminded me that the 9/11 case is obviously not first to confront the issue of secretly-recorded conversations between the defendant and other Guantan...

As both Wells and Ben noted previously, there are renewed signs of interest in the fate of military detention in Afghanistan, in the form of an NPR story by Quil Lawrence and an order that same day from ...

Raff has noted in recent posts some of the conservative opposition to the U.N. Law of the Sea Convention.  But the treaty is supported by many senior Republican officials.  Last Thursday all of the livin...

Raff pointed earlier to a USA Today op-ed by Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas), the Vice Chairman of the House Armed Services committee.

The Associated Press, via Fox News, has another intriguing excerpt from Dan Klaidman's Kill or Capture: The War On Terror And The Soul Of The Obama Presidency.  The book is shaping up to be a must-read f...

I have resisted linking to the latest updates to Bobby, Larkin, and my paper--The Emerging Law of Detention 2.0: The Guantanamo Habeas Cases as Lawmaking--because the redesign of the Brookings web site t...