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New York Times Renews Call for Guantánamo Prison Closure
As Ritika noted earlier today, the New York Times editorial page has renewed its call for the Obama administration to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay. (I'll take it from Ben's lack of snark that he ju... -
Today’s Headlines and Commentary
Welcome back. Let’s begin our monster news roundup with drones. As Matt already noted, Scott Shane of the New York Times tells us about efforts to codify drone policy in the run-up to the election, when ... -
Human Rights Watch Report on Killer Robots, and Our Critique
Last week, Human Rights Watch (along with the Harvard Law School International Human Rights Clinic) published a report titled "Losing Humanity: The Case Against Killer Robots." It argues for a preemptiv... -
Administrative Note #2: Call for Help from Social Networkers and Podcast Listeners
If you're a regular Lawfare reader and Facebook user, and you haven't yet "liked" our Facebook page, please do us---and yourself, and your Facebook friends---a favor and do so. In fact, do one better and... -
Administrative Note: News Ticker
By now, I suspect, most readers will have noticed our new news ticker, which appears just below "Today's Headlines and Commentary" at the top of our sidebar. The ticker itself requires no explanation, bu... -
New Rand Paul Draft on Detention
Sen. Rand Paul's office has been circulating the following draft amendment---which is rather different from his earlier version: sec. [____]. -
Readings: Orin Kerr on "A Theory of Law"
Fourth Amendment scholar Orin Kerr has written a very important--and readably brief--law review article in The Green Bag entitled, "A Theory of Law." I commend it to all Lawfare readers who have ever had... -
Jenks on Criminal Jurisdiction as a Dealkiller for a US-Afghan SOFA
Over at OJ, Chris Jenks (SMU Law) contends that US-Afghan negotiations for a post-2014 SOFA are likely in the end to come apart over the question of Afghan criminal jurisdiction over U.S. servicemembers.... -
Scott Shane on Codifying US Drone Rules
Scott Shane of the New York Times has an interesting story in tomorrow's paper: Facing the possibility that President Obama might not win a second term, his administration accelerated work in the weeks b... -
Veteran Nation
As we all recover from Thanksgiving, I wanted to share with Lawfare readers this video. It's the trailer from a forthcoming movie entitled Veteran Nation that is being produced by Coldwater Media and a ... -
Lisa Monaco Speech on Cyber---A Little Late
I'm not sure how I missed this last month, but Lisa Monaco---assistant attorney general for national security---gave a speech on cybersecurity and NSD's bureaucratic and substantive response to the probl... -
Happy Thanksgiving
This has nothing whatsoever to do with national security or law. But the Washington Post this morning reprinted one of my favorite editorials written in the time I worked there---a work of sheer editoria...
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