The latest public development in the long-running fight over the detention provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act occurred last Friday when a group of 13 Senate Democrats (all the Democrats...

An interesting story in the Post this weekend draws attention to the fact that about 7,000 detainees currently are held without criminal charge in various locations throughout Libya, and with varying deg...

Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, Kenneth Anderson writes of my post yesterday, "What should most concern the Times are the couple of emails I’ve received from several eminent professors, smart and intellec...

I awoke this morning to a genuine marvel: An actual real-live correction to a New York Times editorial on a national security issue. It reads as follows: This article has been revised to reflect the foll...

The invaluable Josh Gerstein of the Politico offers these important pieces of the legislative politics puzzle surrounding the Kelly Ayotte amendment, which I wrote about here and here: The vote, taken ju...

As you probably have heard already, negotiations to extend the U.S.

The Kelly Ayotte amendment I discussed yesterday was voted down late last night, reports the Associated Press: WASHINGTON — The Senate voted early Friday to reject a Republican effort to prohibit the Uni...

Another unpleasant proposed spending restriction related to trying suspected terrorists--this time from Senator Kelly Ayotte. This is a proposed amendment to an appropriations bill for the Justice Depart...

I had been waiting for the video of Pentagon General Counsel Jeh Johnson's speech at the Heritage Foundation to be released to post thoughts it. But I awoke this morning to press coverage of the speech t...

The text of the speech that Jeh Johnson, General Counsel of the Department of Defense, gave at the Heritage Foundation earlier today is available here. We will post the video of the event, including the ...

Jeh Johnson, the General Counsel of the Department of Defense, is currently speaking about detention legislation at the Heritage Foundation. The livestream is available here.

Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker of the NYT report that the Obama administration considered using offensive cyber-weapons in the war in Libya, but in the end did not use them.  Schmitt and Shanker give seve...