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Video of This Morning's Hearing on Targeted Killing
Watch the video of this morning's House Committee on the Judiciary right here. Read the witnesses' testimonies here. -
In Defense of the Administration on Targeted Killing of Americans
In writing my testimony for today’s House Judiciary Committee hearing on drones and targeted killing of U.S. citizens overseas, I found myself writing a more complete explication of the essential legal r... -
Peter Margulies on Clapper
Peter Margulies of Roger Williams School of Law writes in with the following comments on yesterday's Clapper decision: The Supreme Court’s decision Tuesday in Clapper v. Amnesty International reads at fi... -
Clapper Opinion Recap: Supreme Court Denies Standing to Challenge NSA Warantless Wiretapping
As Wells reported, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Clapper v. Amnesty International USA this morning. -
Kill-List Baseball Cards and the Targeting Paper Trail
This is a depiction of what a kill-list "baseball card" looks like: [caption id="attachment_14245" align="aligncenter" width="519"] -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Let’s begin with Senate news. Our favorite group of people has voted to end debate on Chuck Hagel’s nomination, reports Sara Murray at the Wall Street Journal. The majority vote for Secretary of Defense ... -
House Judiciary Committee Written Statements for Tomorrow’s Hearing
The House Committee on the Judiciary has released the written statements of its four witnesses for tomorrow’s hearing on "Drones and the War on Terror: When Can the U.S. Targeted Alleged American Terrori... -
Goodman Responds to Corn, Blank, Jenks, and Jensen on Capture-Instead-of-Kill
The following is a guest post from Ryan Goodman, continuing a conversation begun yesterday in this post from Geoff Corn, Laurie Blank, Chris Jenks, and Eric Jensen. What the Critics of the “Lesser Evil”... -
Breaking: SCOTUS Decides Clapper v. Amnesty International
The Supreme Court apparently concluded, in a 5-4 decision, that plaintiffs lack standing to challenge certain government surveillance programs. Here's some background on the case; we'll post the opinion... -
Readings: Jens Ohlin, 'The Duty to Capture'
Jack Goldsmith has flagged NYU professor Ryan Goodman's European Journal of International Law article, "The Power to Kill or Capture Enemy Combatants," as well as a Slate article by Goodman drawn from th... -
Cyborg-Roach: An Idea Whose Time Has Come---and Scuttled Under the Fridge
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A Statutory Framework for Next-Generation Threats
Several years ago, in a prescient op-ed in the Washington Post, our colleague John Bellinger argued that the September 2001 AUMF was an increasingly poor fit for the evolving threats facing the United St...
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