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Document: 2017 ODNI Transparency Report
On Friday, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released its 2017 transparency report. The full report is below: -
Law and Public Intuition on the Use of Force, Part 1: An Introduction
Tensions with North Korea have reinvigorated long-standing debates over when and how the United States should use military force. Legal experts have offered sometimes conflicting views on how domestic an... -
The Promise and Failure of the House Intelligence Committee Report on Russian Election Interference
What follows are a few thoughts on the House intelligence committee’s report dated March 22 and released April 27 by the majority—and the consequence of the process taken to release it. This is not a com... -
Document: Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court 2017 Annual Report
The director of the Administrative Office of U.S. Courts released the following report on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court’s activities during 2017. The report states that the FISC received 1,... -
Does the Corker-Kaine AUMF Bill Really Open the Door to War with North Korea and Iran?
That’s the remarkable claim purveyed this morning in a New York Times editorial. Here is the relevant passage: -
Newly Disclosed Documents on the Five Eyes Alliance and What They Tell Us about Intelligence-Sharing Agreements
The United States is party to a number of international intelligence sharing arrangements—one of the most prominent being the so-called “Five Eyes” alliance. Born from spying arrangements forged during W... -
R.I.P. Congressional War Power
President Donald Trump has ordered significant military strikes against assets of the Assad regime in Syria. -
A Fast Track to Nowhere: ‘Expedited Procedures’ and the New AUMF Proposal
On Monday evening, a bipartisan coalition of senators led by Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker (R.-Tenn.) and Sen. -
Document: White House Letter of Notice to Congress on Syria Strike
The White House has released the following text of a letter sent to the speaker of the House and president pro tempore of the Senate to serve as notice of military engagement in Syria on April 13, consis... -
Document: Draft Counterterrorism Authorization for Use of Military Force
Sens. Bob Corker, Tim Kaine, Jeff Flake, Chris Coons, Todd Young, and Bill Nelson introduced the following draft authorization for use of military force against designated terrorist groups on Monday: -
Is the U.N. Charter Law?
I think the question of whether the U.N. Charter is law is misleading or meaningless or both, for reasons that I hope this post will make apparent. But now that I have your attention, I want to sketch a ... -
The Trump Administration Should Do More to Explain the Legal Basis for the Syrian Airstrikes
In their post earlier today, Jack Goldsmith and Oona Hathaway argue that the Trump administration had no apparent domestic or international legal authority for last night’s air strikes against Syria. I h...
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