Latest in Highlights
Published by The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With 
-
Most Detail Yet on Al-Aulaqi OLC Memo
A lot of new details in this Charlie Savage story on the OLC memo from last year on the legality of targeting Anwar Al-Aulaqi. -
Computer Virus Infects U.S. Drone Fleet
Noah Shachtman reports at Danger Room that a “computer virus has infected the cockpits of America’s Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots’ every keystroke as they remotely fly missions over Afghanis... -
FOIA and the Question of Secret Law
Charlie Savage of the New York Times has filed this FOIA suit in an effort to acquire a classified report issued by DOJ and ODNI to Congress "pertaining to intelligence collection authorities" under sect... -
Mitt Romney on Updating the AUMF
Today the Romney campaign issued a White Paper on Foreign Policy and National Defense. I have only had time to skim it, but this passage stood out as of particular interest to Lawfare readers: Update th... -
Daniel Bethlehem on Out-of-Theater Targeting
Daniel Bethlehem, who recently stepped down as principal legal adviser of the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office, has an interesting essay in the Harvard National Security Journal, on out-of-theater target... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Lots of stuff today. Yesterday afternoon, Senator John McCain pushed back on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's effort to stymie the NDAA over disagreements about detention policy. McCain is touting th... -
Members of Congress Demand Response to Chinese Commercial Cyber Espionage
Members of both the House and Senate this week criticized China for what Representative Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) called "a massive and sustained intelligence effort by a government to blatantly steal commer... -
Walter Russell Mead on Why the Libya Intervention Harms The Duty To Protect Norm
Walter Russell Mead argues (via Instapundit) that as a result of the Libya intervention, the world may be “farther from enshrining the duty to protect in international law than we were six months ago.” ... -
The Kill or Capture List
The oral argument for the Al-Zahrani case, about which Ben just posted, took up much of my morning, so expect Headlines and Commentary tomorrow. But in the meantime, I wanted to share this very interesti... -
Al-Zahrani Oral Argument Mini-Summary
I'm not going to do a full oral argument summary of this morning's case before the D.C. Circuit, Al Zahrani v. Rodriguez, since it was not a habeas merits case. And the issue it raises, whether the famil... -
Chang on Enemy Status, Detention, and the Law of Neutrality--and Responses from Ingber and Heller
The Texas International Law Journal has just announced the forthcoming publication of a very interesting set of papers on the law of military detention, exploring the relevance of the law of neutrality a... -
Government Argues Against the “Everyone Does It” Defense in Sterling Leak Prosecution
Steve Aftergood at Secrecy News reports that the government has filed a motion in the Sterling leak prosecution urging the court to “bar the defendant [Sterling] from presenting any evidence, argument or...
Topics
