So reports Politico's Jennifer Epstein and Josh Gerstein: President Obama has reversed course and agreed to provide the congressional intelligence committees with classified Justice Department legal advi...

All of us have been so fixated on the DoJ White Paper and the drone controversy at home that we overlooked an important and eponymous development for this blog: lawfare in the Hague. On January 30, a co...

#ReplaceSongTitleWithDrone is going bananas.

While the brouhaha over the White Paper rages, Sarah Goodyear writes in The Atlantic Cities about a novel concept from one Asher J. Kohn which might, in the near future, moot the whole discussion: "Archi...

The central substantive issue, legally and morally, in the administration's Targeted Killing White Paper is how the concept of an "imminent threat" should be understood. This is where much of the debate ...

Eric Posner and Jeff Rosen have sharply different takes on the White paper.  Jeff is outraged: The Justice Department white paper released on Monday by NBC News is the public's first direct glimpse at t...

We don't disagree with Jack that the filling in of details in the White Paper is important---and didn't mean to suggest otherwise. But the importance Jack assigns to this aspect of the White Paper is dec...

I agree with Ben and Susan that there is little new of substance (but more detail) on imminence and other issues in the DOJ White Paper on targeted killing, and I said as much in my reaction to the White...

Okay, everyone, take a deep breath. Chill out. The DOJ’s “White Paper” on targeted killing is no big deal. Really. You wouldn’t know this from reading the somewhat breathless press coverage of the docume...

That is the title of an op-ed I have coming out tomorrow in the Washington Post, which is already available on line.  The premise of the piece is that, contrary to President Obama’s inaugural speech clai...

There's certainly a lot to say about the DOJ white paper on targeted killings, much of which has been said already (and well) by others (see Raff's "Headlines and Commentary" post for links).  At the ris...