Over at the Weekly Standard, Thomas Jocelyn of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies has this piece on the repatriation to Canada of Omar Khadr. Jocelyn is angry over the myths the international left...

Or, at least, that's what CTV News is reporting: After years of detention at the U.S.

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 ...

You can’t make this stuff up.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...