I had an odd meeting of the minds today---with Glenn Greenwald. After I posted my bewildered comments on President Obama's Guantanamo remarks this afternoon, I received the following email from Greenwal...

I confess myself mystified by President Obama's comments about Guantanamo this morning. Here is what the President said---with the parts I find confusing bolded: QUESTION: Mr. President, as you're probab...

Susan Landau, author of Surveillance or Security?

This Washington Post article by Dana Priest is an excellent primer for those looking for an introduction to the particulars of US intelligence support to Mexico's counter-cartel activities, as well as th...

As Raffaela has already noted, in today's Washington Post there is a fascinating story about government plans to require new cyber communications technologies to provide a means by which the government c...

Neal Katyal has a review of my book Power and Constraint in the Harvard Law Review.  My response is here.  Neal’s review basically claims that I don’t understand American separation of powers, and my res...

Carrie Cordero, Georgetown’s Director of National Security Studies and a former Justice Department official, writes in with this piece on the Boston attacks and possible improvements to our approach to c...

In mid-March, I noted a speech by Home Secretary Theresa May, in which she advanced the idea that the UK should consider withdrawing from the European Convention on Human Rights.  As I noted then, the Eu...

I was away when the New York Times ran its latest editorial related to national security legal issues, so I’m afraid I did not fly-speck “The Guantanamo Stain” for factual errors.  No matter. It doesn’t ...