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Today's Headlines and Commentary
A light news day today. William Saletan has a new Slate piece about the "new face of a faceless global war." The Washington Post has coverage of the prison break in Yemen reported yesterday. Charlie S... -
House and Senate NDAA Differences on Transfers
I promised earlier this week to explore the differences between the House and Senate language in their respective versions of the National Defense Authorization Act concerning retrictions on transfers of... -
Koh on Koh
Last Friday I speculated on why Legal Advisor Harold Koh, a leading academic critic of presidential war unilateralism, supported President Obama’s constitutional arguments for the Libya intervention, as ... -
House Fixes Anti-Libya Bill
The Anti-Libya Bill the House of Representatives will consider is here. The Bill would cut off all funds for the Libya intervention except for specified support operations. Unlike the Resolution floate... -
Duke Law Discussion of Theater Detention Operations
Some time back, I spoke at a panel at Duke Law School on detention policy alongside, among others, Michael Gottlieb, who had just completed a fourteen month tour as the top civilian official in Task Forc... -
The Legally Useless House Resolution to Stop the Libya Intervention
I realize that the two Libya Resolutions being considered in the House are more for political than legal effect, but the Resolution that seeks to check the President's Libya intervention is an especially... -
The Kentucky-Iraq Defendants Waived Miranda and Presentment, and the Government "Conducted Extensive Interrogation" Thereafter
In response to my post earlier today on Senator McConnell's call for the defendants in the Kentucky-Iraq case to be transferred to GTMO, the spokesman for DOJ's National Security Division (Dean Boyd) sh... -
House Resolutions on Libya Available
Lawfare readers may be interested in reading the two competing resolutions under consideration in the House this week. The first is a resolution requiring the President to withdraw U.S. forces from comb... -
Response to Senator McConnell's Op-Ed on Civilian Trials for Iraqis Arrested in Kentucky
Senator McConnell has an op-ed in the Washington Post sharply criticizing the Obama administration for pursuing a civilian court prosecution of two Iraqi men who were arrested in Kentucky recently on cha... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
As the House plans to vote on two Libya resolutions (one authorizes the use of force, while another demands an end to U.S. engagement in combat activities), Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer is voicing his opp... -
Move to Quash Risen Subpoeana
The invaluable Steve Aftergood, over at Secrecy News, is reporting: Attorneys for New York Times reporter James Risen yesterday asked a court to quash a subpoena requiring him to testify in the case of f... -
Kerry-McCain Resolution on Libya [Updated]
Senators Kerry and McCain, and eight other prominent Senators, introduced a Resolution on Libya today. The Resolution authorizes the President “to continue the limited use of the United States Armed For...
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