I normally let our podcast posts speak for themselves, but I want to say a particular word about the event Brookings held on Thursday, which Wells just posted as the latest episode of the Lawfare Podcast...

It was an odd turn of events yesterday at the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse.  For a moment, it seemed as if a controversial Guantanamo policy might be rescinded or modified. Friday morning saw a long-...

Senators Manchin and Heitcamp are working on an alternative Syria Resolution that tentatively provides: The failure by the government of Bashar al-Assad to sign and comply with the [Chemical Weapons] Con...

The rhetoric of “punishment” has been a ubiquitous justification for intervening in Syria.

Steven Aftergood from Secrecy News has helpfully posted new and updated Congressional Research Service reports on the conflict in Syria: Possible U.S. Intervention in Syria: Issues for Congress, Septembe...

Last Saturday President Obama said he had “decided that the United States should take military action against Syrian regime targets,” and that he had made that decision “as Commander-in-Chief based on wh...

Among the documents that Edward Snowden released are reports showing that the NSA had been picking up email and phone conversations by and among foreign leaders.  Among the alleged targets were officials...

John Dehn, a professor at  Loyola University Chicago School of Law and  a Senior Fellow in West Point's Center for the Rule of Law, writes in with this comment about Syria and humanitarian intervention: ...

Lawfare-ers have been quite prolific in the debate over U.S. intervention in Syria.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has published its congressionally-mandated, biannual report on the recidivism of former Guantanamo detainees.

By now, many readers will have seen this report from the New York Times on the capabilities of the NSA to crack encryption systems used in cyberspace.  I'm not surprised.  That, after all, is the task we...

Earlier today I said that President Obama’s dismissal of a Security Council authorization as a prerequisite for intervention in Syria “marks the death knell for the long-held USG view that humanitarian i...

Lurking behind international law arguments over a possible US armed intervention in Syria without Security Council authorization are fundamental divides over the nature of international law itself.  Thes...

Marty Lederman writes in with a response to my last post: A quick, response to Jack's reading of the President's remarks in Stockholm yesterday: One should be very cautious, of course, about reading too...

I want to briefly unpack this extraordinary statement by President Obama yesterday in Sweden: [T]he truth of the matter is that under international law, Security Council resolution for self-defense or de...