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A Response to Human Rights Watch and Human Rights First
I promised yesterday that I would have more to say about Andrea Prasow's comments on the fairness of the Majid Khan plea agreement after I had a chance to stew on them a bit. In the meantime, I have lear... -
A Major Address on the Law of Targeted Killing? AG Holder to Speak at Northwestern Law on Monday Afternoon
In late January, Daniel Klaidman reported that the administration was inclined to have Attorney General Holder give a major speech specifying additional details regarding the legal framework governing th... -
CIA, Drones and Proxy Forces, and the Exit from Afghanistan
In a conversation several years ago about what was then simply a hypothesized US military exit from Afghanistan, a friend told me, think of the CIA as the French Foreign Legion. My friend meant by that ... -
Peter Berkowitz on the Legal Rationale for a Preemptive Strike Against Iran
In an interview with Jeff Goldberg late last week, President Obama stated that a U.S. -
Human Rights Watch Responds
Yesterday, I posed a question to Human Rights Watch in response to some comments in the Washington Post by an official of the organization, Andrea Prasow. -
Lawfare Podcast Episode #5: Missy Cummings on Drones, Drones, Drones
Missy Cummings, Director of the Humans and Automation Laboratory and a professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT discusses robots on our battlefields. Cummings is a bit of a force of nature. -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Raffaela has retreated to an undisclosed location, so I will be your one-stop-shop for all things news and commentary for the next week. We begin, naturally, with stories that mention our own people. -
A Question for Human Rights Watch
In today's Washington Post, Peter Finn has an excellent story on the comparative leniency of sentencing in military commissions to date compared with sentencing in federal court. In it, he reports the fo... -
Cully Stimson on the Majid Khan Plea
Before the terms of Majid Khan's plea deal emerged, some conservatives were preemptively outraged by its reported terms. Marc Thiessen denounced as "astounding" what he called "The idea that the Obama a... -
Gregory McNeal on the 1022 Procedures
Writing over at Forbes, Pepperdine law professor Gregory McNeal has this thoughtful piece about the President's policy directive. It contains some interesting ruminations on the breadth of some of the wa... -
TVPA Lawsuit Against Sri Lanka President Dismissed, after Administration Submits Delayed Suggestion of Immunity
On February 29, Judge Kollar-Kotelly of the District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed a lawsuit brought under the Torture Victim Protection Act against President Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka, based... -
Andrew Cohen on the 1022 Implementation Procedures
Over at The Atlantic, Andrew Cohen offers this analysis of President Obama's implementation procedures for Section 1022 of the NDAA.
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