Drones continue to raise Senator Rand Paul's  (R-KY) hackles---the FBI's drones especially, these days. Last month, and following drone-related congressional testimony by outgoing FBI Director Robert S.

So says this White House press release: Statement by the Press Secretary on Guantanamo Bay As the President has said, the United States remains determined to close the detention facility at Guantanamo B...

Gary Schmitt has an interesting piece in the Weekly Standard that argues for eliminating FISC oversight of executive branch surveillance and instead ramping up congressional oversight.  He maintains that...

Cora Currier at Pro Publica has an important story on why DOD won’t publish the list of AUMF “associated forces” against whom we are at war.  DOD’s rationale: A Pentagon spokesman told ProPublica that re...

Raff already flagged yesterday's filing of an amicus brief in support of the government in the Al Bahlul military commission appeal before the en banc D.C. Circuit by "former government officials, former...

I've developed a bit of a backlog of things to post--a regrettable function of a crushing work volume in some of my various other lives and the fact that Lawfare, as it grows, requires more and more day-...

As Jack and Raffaela noted yesterday, the D.C.

Chris Woods, who until just recently used to spearhead the Covert Drone War investigation at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism in London, writes in with the following comments on my post from the ot...