John is right to note that Obama gets more slack than Bush on some of his counterterrorism policies – namely, most if not all of the elements of the aggressive Bush policies that he continued and (in som...

Your correspondents---Wells and Sophie---return to Fort Meade's Smallwood Hall, for almost-live CCTV hearings in United States v. Mohammed et al.

Ryan Goodman has a timely and important new article, forthcoming in EJIL, entitled The Power to Kill or Capture Enemy Combatants.  The Introduction to the piece (footnotes omitted) should draw many reade...

Susan Landau is the author of Surveillance or Security?: The Risks Posed by New Wiretapping Technologies, a careful, clear, and informed book about how government mechanisms for surveillance (legal and o...

John Bellinger makes note in his post below that that Obama administration faces increasing organized NGO, activist-advocacy, and European pushback on drone warfare, and he cites today's front page NYT s...

You can find a copy here.  An excerpt from the statement by Chief Prosecutor Brig. Gen.

Folks, at 9:00 a.m. tomorrow, pre-trial hearings resume in the 9/11 case.  As always, Lawfare will cover the four-day session, which we’ll observe remotely, via closed-circuit television. The day report...

Peter Baker, who is finishing a book on the Bush Presidency, has a long front-page article in the New York Times today entitled "Obama's Turn in Bush's Bind" discussing how the mounting domestic and inte...

This came in via Twitter today, from Lawfare reader and former Brookings intern, Meaghan Maher.

There's been a fair amount of buzz over the past few days centered around the idea of a statutory "drone court"--a tribunal modeled after the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) that would (pr...

Georgetown professor Anthony Clark Arend - old friend to many of us at Lawfare - has a new short post on whether judicial oversight of drones would be a good idea - or constitutional.