As I noted on Friday, Senators Lieberman and Collins have released a Manager’s Amendment in the form of a substitute which reflects some significant changes to their original bill.  You can access the fu...

Laurie Blank, professor at Emory Law School and director of its International Humanitarian Law Clinic, gives Lawfare the last in the series of guest comments on Mark Mazzetti's New York Times Magazine ar...

This morning, U.S.

In response to my post contending that the United States is party to an armed conflict in Yemen pitting AQAP and the government of Yemen against one another, Daphne Eviatar of Human Rights First writes i...

This op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal is part of the Administration's push for comprehensive cyber legislation.  Here's a taste of his views: It doesn't take much to imagine the consequences of a suc...

Late last night Senators Lieberman and Collins introduced revised cybersecurity legislation.  A short summary of the revised Cybersecurity Act of 2012 suggests that the major changes are 1) elimination o...

Over at Forbes.com, the estimable Gregory McNeal has this article about a new Army manual on preventing harm to civilians.

As I noted yesterday, the highest court in the U.S. military justice system—the Article I Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (“CAAF”), a circuit-level court with mostly discretionary jurisdiction over...

Last week, security officials unsealed John Kiriakou's consolidated reply - in which the defendant takes on the government's opposition to his motion for a bill of particulars, and his motion to dismiss ...