The Washington Post has an interesting editorial today largely in support of Senator Lindsey Graham's new habeas bill. Like me, the Post expresses sympathy for Graham's basic project, and objects to the ...

As Scott Shane reported in today's New York Times, the panel of independent psychiatric experts who reviewed the behavioral health history of Dr. Bruce E. Ivins--the person believed to be responsible for...

Charlie Savage reports that the Obama administration’s “legal team appears to be distinguishing between a full war and a more limited military operation, on the theory that the Libyan intervention falls ...

Today President Obama sent this letter to Congress, “as part of [his] efforts to keep the Congress fully informed, consistent with the War Powers Resolution,” about the recent operations in Libya.  After...

I make the case, mostly drawing on arguments previously made on this blog, in Slate.  I also make the obvious point that just because it is lawful does not mean it is a good idea.

This is the final installment in my series of posts on the post-Executive Order spree of legislation emerging from Capitol Hill. It concerns the interrogation bill introduced by Sen.

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I have now had the chance to go over a transcript of Thursday's House Armed Services Committee hearing on detention policy, at which Pentagon General Counsel Jeh Johnson and Deputy Defense Secretary Will...

Adam Serwer has a very thoughtful piece on yesterday's House Armed Services Committee hearing, which I could not attend. Like me, Adam has come to the conclusion that there is quite a bit of common groun...

It looks like the Obama Administration is planning to deploy some form of U.S.

Michael Stransky’s email led me to reread the questions Charlie Savage asked Senators Obama and Clinton in late 2007.  The question and answers are worth considering in full.  Savage asked: In what circu...

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