...then you'll want to keep up with Tung Yin (Lewis & Clark Law), a good friend and colleague who has established a channel on his always-interesting blog for just this purpose.  A sampling of his covera...

Michael Leiter, the Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, gave an important speech today at CSIS that touched on many topics, including an overview of the foreign and homeland terrorist threa...

Over at Mother Jones, Nick Baumann offers a thoughtful response to my post yesterday, which in turn responded to his earlier post on Al Aulaqi. I don't mean to respond further, since I think the exchange...

Secretary of Defense Gates on the significance of the latest wikileaks disclosures (via SWJ): But let me – let me just offer some perspective as somebody who’s been at this a long time. Every other gover...

Over at Mother Jones, Nick Baumann accuses me of arguing against straw terrorists. Quoting a Lawfare post from a little while back in which I posited that the alternative to reserving the option of letha...

Larkin and I were planning to post a detailed account of what the Wikileaks cables say about  Guantanamo resettlement efforts, but Charlie Savage and Andrew Lehren of the New York Times have beaten us to...

I’m surprised this statistic does not get more attention.  The Pentagon’s annual report to Congress on “Progress Toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan” ( required by § 1230 of the National Defense...

Representative Peter King has urged the State Department to consider designating Wikileaks a "foreign terrorist organization," which among other things would implicate 18 USC 2339B (the 1996 material sup...

Another interesting hypothetical raised by the Wikileaks situation is whether Wikileaks counts as a "foreign power" for purposes of FISA.  50 USC 1801(a) defines "foreign power" as any of the following: ...

The decision by Wikileaks to expose a massive collection of classified State Department cables, and the fact that Wikileaks seems today to be experiencing a DDOS attack, creates an occasion to think hypo...

Responding to my suggestion that Lawfare readers debate the parameters of a new AUMF--a discussion thread for which I have started over at our Facebook page--John Bellinger III writes in with the followi...

The latest issue of Inspire, the glossy English-language in-house magazine of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is available here, courtesy of a web site entitled Public Intelligence. The first issue is ...

It is hardly a surprise that John Bellinger III is being attacked (here and here, for example) for his modest suggestion in the Washington Post the other day that Congress should update the AUMF.

Late Saturday night the State Department released a strongly worded letter from Legal Advisor Harold Koh to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and his attorney concerning the apparently imminent publicatio...

I traveled by air yesterday to be with my family for Thanksgiving. And to tell the truth I was kind of looking forward to the flight almost as much as I was the turkey and mashed potatoes. I've been dyin...

Back on November 17, the Medill National Security Journalism Initiative held an excellent forum on legal issues surrounding targeted killing. The panel consisted of me and Gary Solis, author of the recen...

John Bellinger argues in today's Washington Post for new framework legislation relating to counterterrorism - that is, for a new statute to supersede the AUMF.  John concludes: Nearly 10 years after the ...

Marc Thiessen has taken a lot of heat for this argument in the course of defending TSA screening procedures: Can any of us imagine the debate we’ve had in recent weeks unfolding in the days immediately f...