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Kenneth Anderson on Baumann v. Wittes
Over at Mother Jones, Nick Baumann offers a thoughtful response to my post yesterday, which in turn responded to his earlier post on Al Aulaqi. I don't mean to respond further, since I think the exchange... -
The FISC Is Hiring
We will not be in the habit of posting job opportunities, but this one is worthy of an exception. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court employs five attorneys as "counsels" who assist the court in... -
Realism 101 on Wikileaks
Secretary of Defense Gates on the significance of the latest wikileaks disclosures (via SWJ): But let me – let me just offer some perspective as somebody who’s been at this a long time. Every other gover... -
A Response to Nick Baumann
Over at Mother Jones, Nick Baumann accuses me of arguing against straw terrorists. Quoting a Lawfare post from a little while back in which I posited that the alternative to reserving the option of letha... -
Wikileaks on Guantanamo Resettlement
Larkin and I were planning to post a detailed account of what the Wikileaks cables say about Guantanamo resettlement efforts, but Charlie Savage and Andrew Lehren of the New York Times have beaten us to... -
Detainee Recidivism in Afghanistan
I’m surprised this statistic does not get more attention. The Pentagon’s annual report to Congress on “Progress Toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan” ( required by § 1230 of the National Defense... -
Can Wikileaks Be Designated an FTO? No, But What About IEEPA?
Representative Peter King has urged the State Department to consider designating Wikileaks a "foreign terrorist organization," which among other things would implicate 18 USC 2339B (the 1996 material sup... -
Is Wikileaks a "Foreign Power" for FISA Purposes?
Another interesting hypothetical raised by the Wikileaks situation is whether Wikileaks counts as a "foreign power" for purposes of FISA. 50 USC 1801(a) defines "foreign power" as any of the following: ... -
Would a Computer Network Operation to Disrupt Wikileaks Count as a "Covert Action" for Oversight Purposes?
The decision by Wikileaks to expose a massive collection of classified State Department cables, and the fact that Wikileaks seems today to be experiencing a DDOS attack, creates an occasion to think hypo... -
More from John Bellinger
Responding to my suggestion that Lawfare readers debate the parameters of a new AUMF--a discussion thread for which I have started over at our Facebook page--John Bellinger III writes in with the followi... -
The Latest Issue of Inspire
The latest issue of Inspire, the glossy English-language in-house magazine of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is available here, courtesy of a web site entitled Public Intelligence. The first issue is ... -
Updating the AUMF--A Discussion
It is hardly a surprise that John Bellinger III is being attacked (here and here, for example) for his modest suggestion in the Washington Post the other day that Congress should update the AUMF.
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