The amendment to the Senate NDAA by Senator Mark Udall to strip out the detention provisions of the bill has gone down. The vote, 37 for it, and 61 against, wasn't even close.

Lawfare Book Review Editor Kenneth Anderson is planning, in short order, to launch a new feature flagging and recommending must-read scholarship in the world of national security and law--a matter on whi...

I have one thought to add to Bobby's observations yesterday about the legal implications of finishing off the Al Qaeda core in Pakistan. House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon has taken a be...

Greg Miller of the Washington Post has an important story this morning addressing the possibility that the original al Qaeda network is but a drone strike or two away from eradication: The leadership ran...

The Republican presidential candidates debated national security and foreign policy issues last night in Washington. Ritika teed up the debate here with links to the Post’s preview of issues to watch and...

Having now returned from my undisclosed location, here's a transcript of the Senate floor debate on the NDAA. The Senate debated the bill on Thursday and Friday. This transcript, helpfully includes only...

Daphne Eviatar of Human Rights First writes in with the following comments on Latif and the detention provisions of the NDAA:

Ben wrote last week about the Administration’s threat to veto the Defense Authorization Bill, in large part because of its detainee transfer and related provisions.

What do you think the chances are that the New York Times editorial folks could have managed to produce this editorial--and without any glaring factual errors--without having read this post and this one ...