There is an increasing amount of talk about judicial review for at least some decisions to place specific persons on targeting lists for the use of lethal force outside of a combat zone (drones are not t...

I asked the other day what was becoming of the persons who presumably were being captured by French, Malian, or other forces fighting the Islamist extremists in Mali.  Turns out there are a couple of ans...

The problems that Rick recently identified with how both the DOJ White Paper and its critics treat the concept of "imminence"  --- specifically, that they are borrowing a concept generated in a domestic ...

(Updated and extended.)  The White Paper's reference to imminence has occasioned some heated rhetoric about the Obama administration stretching the notion beyond all possible ordinary meaning or bounds, ...

That's the word from James Connell III, an attorney for 9/11 accused Ammar al-Baluchi. The commission's ruling---issued yesterday in connection with the case's much-discussed "who pressed the button" ep...

Amid the flurry of writing about the White Paper’s approach to “imminence” – an important conversation, to be sure – little attention has been paid to a paragraph in the White Paper that seems to establi...

They can be found here, and (as is typical, and from the nominee’s perspective, desirable), they contain little news. In response to Question 7 on the CIA’s paramilitary role, Brennan says: “The CIA, a ...

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.