Senator Rand Paul’s rumored detention amendment got me reminiscing about S.2003, better known as the Due Process Guarantee Act (“DPGA”). Remember this?

Speaking of responses to my comments on the New York Times debate, Andrea Prasow of Human Rights Watch---who participated in the discussion---sends in the following: Ben seems to find it boring that Huma...

In his post on Senator Rand Paul's proposal regarding citizens and the NDAA, Bobby highlights a recurring and important question: why is it so hard for ostensibly civil libertarian legislators explicitly...

Ben notes what appears to be a draft proposal from Senator Rand Paul to amend the NDAA so as to address situations involving American citizens captured inside the United States.  While the context sugges...

A source sent me a copy of this email, apparently from Senator Rand Paul's office last week to Republican Senate legislative directors about a coming amendment by the senator to restrict military detenti...

As I noted, yesterday the Senate returned, briefly to consideration of the Cybersecurity Act of 2012.  The rather half-hearted effort (I think that's a fair characterization) ended as was inevitable -- i...

As I noted yesterday, Senator Reid has announced that the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 will return to the floor for consideration sometime before Thanksgiving (possibly as early as tomorrow).   According to...

In remarks today on the Floor, Senator Reid promised that the Lieberman-Collins cybersecurity bill would return to the floor before Thanksgiving.  Here is the rough transcript of what he said: WE'RE GOIN...

While I am sure we differ in emphasis and details, I agree with the thrust of Trevor’s latest post.  As I argued in my last two books, the early Bush administration approach to presidential power was, in...

I appreciate Jack's follow-up post on the larger picture of the Obama administration's counterterrorism policies and their points of continuity with the Bush administration (though only the late Bush, as...

When I wrote on Friday about the “basic counterterrorism policies that Obama continued, with tweaks, from the late Bush administration,” I meant to refer only to policies that “Obama continued” from the ...

I agree with much of what Jack says in his recent post about the counterterrorism issues likely to face President Obama in his second term.