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Omar Khadr Appears To Be Back in Canada
Or, at least, that's what CTV News is reporting: After years of detention at the U.S. -
Lessons from the Smackdown
Most of the press coverage of the Lawfare Drone Smackdown has focused, understandably enough, on the FAA's intervention in the event. In this post, however, I want to focus on some of the lessons of the ... -
Trio of Cooperative Robot Quadrocopters Play Catch
You can’t make this stuff up. -
Would a President Romney Bring Back Enhanced Interrogation?
Jack linked yesterday to this Charlie Savage story about this internal Romney campaign draft memo urging a full-throated embrace of “enhanced interrogation”---written a year ago by Romney’s “national sec... -
Is It Legal For the U.S. To Use Force Against Iran?
My law partner (and former CIA General Counsel) Jeff Smith and I have an op-ed in today's Washington Post (entitled "Is It Legal to Hit Iran?" in the print edition) discussing the U.S. and international... -
Stay Briefing Completed in Hedges
Briefing is now complete on the government’s motion to stay pending appeal in Hedges v. Obama. (You’ll recall that a circuit judge already stayed the district court’s order temporarily, pending resoluti... -
Implied Consent in Drone Strikes, Congressional Briefings, Dorm Rooms, and Property Disputes
This remarkable Wall Street Journal story came out over Yom Kippur, so I'm late in commenting on it. But it's worth everyone's attention. It opens: About once a month, the Central Intelligence Agency sen... -
Charlie Savage on Romney Team Memo on Interrogation
Charlie Savage of the NYT has an interesting piece on a memorandum entitled “Interrogation Techniques” that Savage reports was circulated last year among the Romney campaign’s “National Security Law Subc... -
NYT's Scott Shane on Cyber Ops and Secrecy
Scott Shane raises important questions in his article today about transparency and offensive U.S. cyber capabilities and operations. There are lessons to be learned from the U.S. experience with respect... -
Shane Harris on the Smackdown
Washingtonian writer and respected, strict-constructionist Smackdown judge Shane Harris has this piece on last Sunday's Main Event. Here's how it begins: Sunday was a great day for flying. Flying drones... -
NPR on the Lawfare Drone Smackdown
Carrie Johnson had this piece about the Smackdown on NPR’s “All Things Considered” yesterday. It begins: National Security Experts Go Rogue For 'Drone Smackdown' -
John Villasenor: Thoughts on the Smackdown
John Villasenor---a Brookings colleague who is also a professor of electrical engineering at UCLA---has done a lot of policy work on domestic drone use. He writes in with the following thoughts on the Sm...
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