At 10 am, Lawfare's Benjamin Wittes and Bobby Chesney, along with General Jack Keane, will provide testimony before the House Armed Services Committee today regarding the Obama administration's proposed ...

Per our usual practice, Lawfare will be posting digests of the Al Nashiri military commission proceedings---which resume today at noon---throughout the week. First up is the statement by Brig. Gen.

[Cross-posted at Just Security] With congressional hearings on the Obama Administration’s proposed Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) for the Islamic State on the horizon, we propose six...

The New York Times thinks President Obama's draft AUMF is dangerously broad: The parameters of a proposed war authorization the White House sent to

Yesterday, the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations received an "Update on Detainee Transfers from GTMO." You can read the testimony of the Department of De...

Jack ends his excellent and comprehensive post this morning, a post which I will not try to summarize, with the following statement: I just don’t get the calculation.  It seems that the President could h...

Before I get to analysis and criticism, let me give the Obama administration credit for proposing a draft AUMF yesterday.  The administration’s many promises about working with Congress to craft an AUMF ...

Here are the key policy judgments in the President's AUMF proposal: "The President is authorized . . . to use the Armed Forces of the United States as the President determines to be necessary and approp...

Over at Just Security, Steve Vladeck and a group of scholars have posted a letter to President Obama asking him to include in his AUMF proposal not merely a sunset for the new ISIS AUMF but one for the u...

If one thing was clear from Tuesday morning's 61-minute argument before the D.C.

It is with great reluctance that I wade into Gabor and Steve’s debate about how to close the U.S.