When my daughter was in day care and I would pick her up in the evening and ask her what she did during the day, she would sometimes respond, a little alarmingly, "I sat in a dark room and stared at a wa...

Raffaela earlier posted the President's implementation procedures for Section 1022 of the NDAA--that is, the not-so-mandatory military detention provision. I have only had a chance to read it over quickl...

This just in from the Department of Justice: Today at 6:30 pm, the White House issued the following Fact Sheet and a Presidential Policy Directive that sets forth procedures implementing Section 1022 of ...

The narrow question presented in the Kiobel v.

There's been a lot of buzz in the press on the plea bargain reached between Majid Khan and the prosecution in his Military Commission case--and a lot of it has focused on the mere four years before Khan ...

Ellen Nakashima of the Washington Post reports that the White House thwarted NSA attempts to seek legislation that “would have required hundreds of companies that provide such critical services as electr...

I've blogged before about S.

Along with the earlier reading on drones in Pakistan by Pia Zubair Shah in Foreign Policy, also check out Council on Foreign Relations fellow Micah Zenko's short piece in the same March-April 2012 issue,...

Brookings scholars Kenneth Lieberthal and Peter W. Singer have just released a paper entitled "Cybersecurity and U.S.-China Relations." It opens as follows: There is perhaps no relationship as significan...