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Today's Headlines and Commentary
Let's start today's news roundup with drone news: First they replace soldiers with drones; now, as if the pressures on the media industry weren't bad enough, they're going after journalists. -
NDAA FAQ: A Guide for the Perplexed
The volume of sheer, unadulterated nonsense zipping around the internet about the NDAA boggles the mind. There was a time--only a few months ago--when the NDAA detention provisions were the obscure provi... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Ritika has decamped to an undisclosed location for a few weeks, so I have seized sole control of the Headlines and Commentary feature for a spell. Please send noteworthy articles I may have missed to wa... -
Senate Debate on the NDAA Conference Report
In our final installment of NDAA transcripts, we bring you the Senate's debate on December 15th on the conference report's detention provisions. Here are some highlights: Senators Carl Levin and John M... -
David Cole on President Obama's Backoff on the NDAA
David Cole, writing in the New York Review of Books blog, has this essay on the President's decision not to veto the NDAA. Key passage: the law as amended continues to contain extraordinarily dangerous p... -
Paul Rosenzweig on Cybersecurity and Public Goods
Former DHS policy official Paul Rosenzweig has this new contribution to a paper series published by the Hoover Institution's Task Force on National Security and Law--of which I am a member. The paper, en... -
Iran Hijacked U.S. Drone?
Scott Peterson and Payam Faramarzi at the Christian Science Monitor have an interview with an unnamed Iranian engineer who says that Iran took over the computer systems of the RQ-170 Sentinel UAV, cut of... -
Lawfare Traffic Update
Neat fact for Lawfare Traffic Nerds: Today, only 16 days into December, we passed our previous monthly record for traffic on this site. As of this hour, December has seen 69,810 visits--passing our Octob... -
Meanwhile, a Guilty Plea From Another Person Involved in the Iraq Insurgency
What an interesting day for the question of how to address cases involving participation in the insurgency in Iraq. Earlier today we learned that Ali Musa Daqduq, the last American military detainee in ... -
Daqduq Transferred to Iraq
Oh my. Ali Mussa Daqduq, a Hezbollah agent held by the U.S. military for many years in Iraq and believed to have been responsible for an episode involving the capture, torture, and murder of a group of ... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Rejoice Greatly! The Iraq War is officially over--"after nearly nine years, 4,500 Americans dead, 32,000 wounded and more than $800 billion," says the Associated Press. -
Transcript of House Debate on the NDAA
You can read the detention-specific portions of the December 14th House debate on the conference report here. Here are some highlights: Congressman Alcee Hastings (D-FL) presented a strident oppositio...
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