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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...
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This is the latest piece in the interview series I have done over the last few months with terrorism and regional experts about non-legal issues of pertinence to Lawfare readers.
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On Monday, October 29, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Clapper v. Amnesty International, which poses the question whether a group of human rights organizations, lawyers, activists, and journalis...
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This is the third in a series of interviews I am doing with scholars around Washington D.C. who have non-legal expertise that bears on the national security legal questions near and dear to the hearts of...
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Here's the video of all four rounds of the Lawfare Drone Smackdown. It's a crude cut, and I had to edit it very quickly. But anyone who doubts that the era of consumer drones---and consumer cyber-securit...
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Last month, I linked to an essay over at Foreign Policy by the mysterious Twitter phenom known as @drunkenpredator.
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This is the second in a series of interviews I am doing with scholars around town who have non-legal expertise that bears on the national security law issues Lawfare readers care about.
