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The latest cache of NSA documents---a group released yesterday related to errors in collection under Section 215---follows the same basic narrative pattern as the agency’s earlier release concerning impl...
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On the twelfth anniversary of 9/11 and the first anniversary of the Benghazi attack, we pause for a few moments to remember the lives that were lost and to reflect upon the consequences of those two trag...
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The most puzzling line in the President’s strange speech last night was this:
[E]ven though I possess the authority to order military strikes, I believed it was right, in the absence of a direct or immin...
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Prescience
In 1948, E.B. White penned a little essay that would become a little book. “The city,” he wrote, “is like poetry: it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds mu...
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Congratulations to John Carlin, who has been serving as the acting head of NSD since this past March. From the White House comes the formal announcement of his nomination:
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the ...
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Like its predecessor, this latest cache apparently was released in connection with a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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On Monday morning---after a marathon argument in a well publicized net neutrality case---the D.C. Circuit turned to this question, in the case of Hentif v. Obama: whether the appellant timely noted his a...
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You've likely heard: in a bid to avert action by the United States, Russia has proposed that Syria abandon its chemical weapons stockpiles.
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Published by Touchstone (2013)
Reviewed by Bruce Riedel
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[Updated (11:34 a.m.): Ben rightly points out to me that his reply does not use the phrases "clearly legal" or "settled," and so my use of quotation marks around those terms may convey the wrong impressi...
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In his response to my post in defense of the NSA, Steve raises a few issues about my claim that the "NSA's activities are legal." I would like to address them each very briefly.
First, he asks, "does Be...
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Last Wednesday the government filed its response brief in Aamer v. Obama, the force-feeding case on appeal in the D.C. Circuit. The appellants, three Guantánamo detainees, filed their appeal on Aug. 5, c...
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I have no doubt that Ben meant to provoke--and, at least in my case, he did (enough, at least, to make a Coming to America reference in the title of this post).
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I've been quiet of late -- mostly because our Lawfare readership is so self-evidently (and, I might add, appropriately) engaged in questions of greater immediacy relating to the coming debate over Syrian...
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The NSA has been somewhat less in the news the past few weeks, thanks largely to Syria. That's going to change in the coming days, when the latest tranche of declassified materials becomes public.
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Julian Ku is right to poke fun at the administration for conveying its vague and conclusory legal rationale for intervening in Syria through the reporting of the NYT’s Charlie Savage. But vague and conc...
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The BBC reports that Italian journalist Domenico Quirico and Belgian teacher Pierre Piccinin da Prata have been released after being kidnapped in Syria in April. That's about it for good news from the we...
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Sam Tanenhaus had an essay over the weekend in the NYT that I think is at bottom a “little c” conservative critique of President Obama’s Syria push. But the essay makes little sense, at least to me.
Ta...
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. . . from the Onion:
WASHINGTON—As President Obama continues to push for a plan of limited military intervention in Syria, a new poll of Americans has found that though the nation remains wary over the ...
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The issue for tomorrow morning's argument in the D.C. Circuit: whether Guantanamo detainee Fadel Hussein Saleh Hentif's appeal was filed on time.
In a redacted 2011 opinion, the district court had conc...
