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Koh Letter to Wikileaks [Updated]
Late Saturday night the State Department released a strongly worded letter from Legal Advisor Harold Koh to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and his attorney concerning the apparently imminent publicatio... -
Lawfare Comments and Discussions on Facebook
Here at Lawfare, we don't take comments. Being very old-fashioned, we started this blog to express our opinions to a group of readers, not to create a bulletin board for those readers. We have gotten any... -
A Dispatch from Dulles
I traveled by air yesterday to be with my family for Thanksgiving. And to tell the truth I was kind of looking forward to the flight almost as much as I was the turkey and mashed potatoes. I've been dyin... -
Medill Discussion on Targeted Killing and the Law
Back on November 17, the Medill National Security Journalism Initiative held an excellent forum on legal issues surrounding targeted killing. The panel consisted of me and Gary Solis, author of the recen... -
John Bellinger on the Need for New Framework Legislation for Counterterrorism
John Bellinger argues in today's Washington Post for new framework legislation relating to counterterrorism - that is, for a new statute to supersede the AUMF. John concludes: Nearly 10 years after the ... -
The Gap Between the Public’s and the Government’s View of the Terrorism Threat
Marc Thiessen has taken a lot of heat for this argument in the course of defending TSA screening procedures: Can any of us imagine the debate we’ve had in recent weeks unfolding in the days immediately f... -
Thanksgiving Wishes
I'm going to take a break from blogging for the next twenty-four hours, but before I go dark, I want to wish Lawfare readers all over the world a wonderful holiday. In particular, in light of Brig. -
Lawfare: So Are We Waging It?
Parwan, Friday, November 19, 2010 -- The week’s posts up until now—written on a Blackberry while we moved or found small spaces of time between engagements—position me finally to move from the definition... -
Save the Date: 4th Annual National Security Law Junior Faculty Workshop/IHL Training - Charlottesville Edition
For the past three years, Geoff Corn and I have had the great pleasure of putting on a unique workshop event loosely directed toward a combination of JAGs and junior civilian scholars working on national... -
Andy Worthington Responds
I received the following note from Andy Worthington in response to my earlier post about his article. I appreciate very much his clarifications, which read in relevant part: My intention was not to descr... -
On the Admissibility of FISA-Derived Evidence in Criminal Prosecutions
United States v. Kashmiri, a recent decision by a district judge in Illinois, provides a nice illustration of the process by which defendants in criminal cases may object to the admission of evidence der... -
"Blind Vengeance and a Thorough Disdain for the Law"
This is how the always-entertaining British journalist, Andy Worthington describes critics of federal court trials, including--it seems--Jack and Bobby and me, which is kind of funny considering that we ...
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