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On Friday, Brookings hosted Bob Litt, the General Counsel to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
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Listen to Alan Liotta, a senior Defense Department official who focuses on the United States' detention policies worldwide on, unsurprisingly enough, the present and future of U.S.
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On May 31, 2013, the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution hosted Rached Ghannouchi, co-founder and president of Tunisia's Islamist ruling party, Al Nahda, for an address on th...
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This week, I interviewed CDR Walter Ruiz, a lawyer for accused 9/11 co-conspirator Mustafa al-Hawsawi.
Our discussion touched on, among other things: the fairness of military commission rules; Ruiz's co...
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UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counterterrorism, Ben Emmerson, came by the Brookings Institution this morning for a wide-ranging discussion on his investigation of drone strikes. We had planne...
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On April 24, Ben gave a talk at Britain's Parliament. The Henry Jackson Society organized the event, which was entitled "Are Drones the New Guantanamo?"
A lively question-and-answer session followed Be...
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On Monday, my Brookings colleague Bruce Riedel held an excellent discussion with Philip Mudd, former deputy director of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center and author of the new book Takedown: Inside the H...
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The Federal Public Defender Office for the Districts of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island has said it expects to represent Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, according to Mir...
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The subject of lethal autonomous weapons has been one of considerable debate on this site---following a
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Here is video of the plenary panel from last week's ASIL conference, entitled "International Law in the Obama Administration: The First Four Years." Moderated by Donald Donovan, the panel included former...
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What a useful contribution to the debate! From the Washington Post.
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As you no doubt already know, Kentucky's junior Senator, Rand Paul, on Wednesday filibustered John O. Brennan's nomination to be CIA Director for thirteen hours (with help, in part, from his Senate colle...
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Congratulations to Duke Law School's Charlie Dunlap, who as executive director of the Center has organized another outstanding LENS conference. You can follow it live streaming from the link at the webp...
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Fawzia Koofi (website, Twitter) is an Afghan Member of Parliament and Vice President of the Afghan National Assembly. She is also running for President of Afghanistan in the planned April 2014 elections,...
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Voice of America Urdu produces a weekly webcast called "Access Point with Ayesha Tanzeem," which, this week, focused on U.S. drone policy and the legality of targeted killing in light of President Obama'...
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Speaking of the John Brennan confirmation hearing, here's the video, courtesy of CSPAN:
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This morning, my Brookings colleagues Michael O'Hanlon and Bruce Riedel held an excellent event with General Stanley McChrystal on the evolution of JSOC and his new book, My Share of the Task.
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A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of sitting at a dinner next to Stephen Krasner, a Stanford political scientist who used to head the State Department's policy planning staff.
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Rezwan Ferdaus, a 26-year-old U.S.-born citizen of Bangladeshi origin, was arrested in September 2011 for plotting to attack the Pentagon and the Capitol Building with remote-controlled model airplanes c...
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In this special episode of the Lawfare Podcast, Military Commission Chief Prosecutor Brigadier General Mark Martins discusses his decision to recommend dropping conspiracy charges against Khalid Sheikh M...
