This evening, the Senate voted on two GTMO-flavored amendments to the FY2014 National Defense Authorization Act. One amendment was put forth by Senators Carl Levin and John McCain, and would have (among...

On Monday, the Senate approved in a 91-0 vote to proceed to debate on the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act, and floor debate began today. We've covered the competing bills on Lawfare, one passed ...

The President has just nominated Caroline Krass to be General Counsel of the CIA, to succeed Stephen Preston. Although late in coming, this is an excellent appointment.   Caroline is currently the Princ...

As I’ve discussed previously, I am finishing a forthcoming paper on constitutional war powers and “The Power to Threaten War.”  In the meantime, the Yale Law Journal Online has published my essay, drawin...

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Not to be outdone by Amnesty International, which responded earlier to my post on reports by Amenesty and Human Rights Watch, Letta Taylor of Human Rights Watch writes in with the following response as w...

Here's the news, from The Daily Beast's Dan Klaidman: The White House has settled on a former high-ranking Pentagon official to replace Janet Napolitano as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Secu...

Mary DeRosa and Marty Lederman, both of whom were senior national security lawyers in the Obama administration, have a helpful if somewhat hopeful post at Just Security on the significance of the recent ...

A few weeks ago the NYT had a piece by David Sanger about how the Snowden revelations will hurt if not kill the NSA’s ambitious plans for cybersecurity defense in the U.S. homeland.  “Administration offi...