So we learn from ABC's Jake Tapper, who in turn quotes from Mark Bowden's forthcoming book, "The Finish," about the bin Laden raid: If Osama bin Laden had surrendered to the Navy SEALs, President Obama w...

A few weeks ago I posed the following questions in relation to the Constitution Project's report on state and major urban area intelligence Fusion Centers, which DHS set up and funded after 9/11: One rea...

Earlier today I argued that a Romney administration would not pursue significantly different counterterrorism policies than a second Obama administration.  Below I note three caveats to this claim, and I...

Further to Bobby's and my posts on news reports of US government discussions around ways to address groups such as AQIM taking root in Africa - including discussion of US military and intelligence advise...

Today marks the five-month anniversary of the oral arguments before the D.C. Circuit in United States v.

Last week Ben argued that, despite the Romney Team memo on interrogation and Romney’s promise to use “enhanced” interrogation techniques, a President Romney would not change the Obama interrogation polic...

I am keenly aware, as I acknowledged Monday, that I still owe Gabor Rona a response to his legal arguments. My initial response to his post took on only those aspects of his argument that imagined an Ame...

This is a big deal.  The district court  (in the person of Judge Edward Lodge of the District of Idaho) has entered partial summary judgment for the plaintiffs in Al-Kidd v.

H/T to Charlie Savage for sharing the latest---doubtless unofficial---Obama bumper sticker:

Bobby posted a day ago about an important Wall Street Journal news story talking about the US government considering options for pursuing an increasing active and dangerous branch-franchise-affiliate of ...