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Carrie Cordero on AP Subpoenas
Carrie Cordero, Georgetown’s Director of National Security Studies and a former Justice Department official, writes in with these thoughts on the AP subpoenas controversy and background law: In light ... -
House Judiciary Hearing on Domestic Drones
Earlier today, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing entitled "Eyes in the Sky: the Domestic Use of Unmanned Aerial Systems." The four-witness panel included two experts familiar to Lawfare reade... -
Peter Margulies on Law, Ethics and the GTMO Hunger Strike
Peter Margulies, of Roger Williams School of Law, writes in with these comments on law, ethics, and the hunger strike ongoing at Guantanamo: The hunger strike at Guantanamo has put bioethics on the front... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The Department of Justice's Inspector General released an interim report on the Department's handling of "known or suspected" terrorists who have entered the government's witness protection program. The... -
Congress Must Figure Out What Our Government Is Doing In The Name of the AUMF
A common assumption in the debate about the appropriate legal regime for extra-AUMF threats is that the AUMF is cabined and cannot be extended to newly threatening Islamist terrorist threats. Yesterday’... -
Center for Democracy and Technology Report on USG Proposals to Expand CALEA to Peer-to-Peer Communications
The New York Times has a story about the problems of expanding CALEA to on peer-to-peer communications. The story discusses a Center for Democracy and Technology report on the topic by several experts. ... -
Explainer on the AP Subpoenas Controversy
It's been a rough week for the Obama Administration. In addition to outrage over IRS targeting of conservative groups and continued conspiratorial rumblings about the Administration's response to the Ben... -
Testimony from May 16 Senate Armed Services Committee Hearing on the AUMF
There's been a flurry of Lawfare posts on today's hearing, before the Senate Armed Services Committee, on the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force. The video of the hearing can be viewed here... -
Today’s Headlines and Commentary
Let’s begin with the 100 pages of Benghazi emails released by the White House yesterday, as it went into full damage control mode. Reuters reports that the talking points on Benghazi were scrubbed of ref... -
Quick Reactions to Extraordinary Senate Armed Services Committee Hearing on the AUMF
I participated in an extraordinary hearing before the Armed Services Committee today on the scope of the AUMF. Lawfare readers interested in the scope of the AUMF will want to watch the hearing video ca... -
Gmail and the CIA
I've been in Germany all week (at the George C. -
The Washington Post, the AUMF, and Self-Defense
Ben quotes from this morning's Washington Post editorial on AUMF reform, the last two sentences of which assert that "Countering the jihadists with intelligence and law enforcement tools manifestly faile...
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