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Greg Miller on Roger
Greg Miller of the Washington Post has this excellent profile of Roger, the enigmatic head of the CIA Counterterrorism Center and a principle architect of the drones program. -
Philip Bobbitt on the Individual Mandate and . . . Bioterrorism
Columbia legal scholar Philip Bobbitt just sent in this fascinating article on the constitutionality of the individual mandate as justified by biosecurity. If that sounds like a bit of a non-sequitur, we... -
Senator Feinstein on the Obama Administration and Targeted Killing
Earlier this week I published a piece on the Foreign Policy page that defended the legal infrastructure for the Obama’s administration’s targeted killing program. At the end I made the following proposa... -
Appellant Brief Filed in ACLU v. CIA (Drone Program FOIA Request)
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed its opening brief in its appeal of the District Court of the District of Columbia's granting of a motion for summary judgment for the Central Intelligence Age... -
The Onion Drones Debate
No commentary necessary: Could The Use Of Flying Death Robots Be Hurting America's Reputation Worldwide? -
Three More (Ambivalent) Reflections on the Holder Speech
The more I think about Attorney General Holder's defense of targeted killings in his speech @ Northwestern last Monday--and the various reactions thereto--the more confused I become. To be sure, this con... -
Biosecurity License Plate
Those who liked Lawfare graffiti (here and here) or my license plate (here and here) might find amusing this picture, taken on my street: -
Klingler on Holder's Speech: Does Due Process Require LOAC Compliance?
Former NSC Legal Adviser Richard Klingler, now a partner at Sidley Austin, writes in with the following important observation in relation to Holder’s speech and my commentary thereon. He raises a really ... -
The Holder Speech and the <i>Mathews</i> Test
One brief (but significant) point that thus far has gone largely unnoticed in the wide coverage of yesterday's speech by Attorney General Eric Holder is his invocation of the Supreme Court's Mathews v. -
The Washington Post on Holder's Speech
My former colleagues on the Washington Post editorial page have weighed in quickly on Eric Holder's speech yesterday with an editorial entitled, "It's Time to Release the Drone Memos." The gravamen of th... -
Holder on Targeted Strikes: The Key Passages, with Commentary
In this post, I focus on the portion of the speech addressing the targeted use of lethal force, including against US citizens. To cut to the chase, the heart of the discussion comes when the Attorney Gen... -
Text of the Attorney General's National Security Speech
As promised, Attorney General Holder delivered an address on law and national security today at Northwestern Law. The speech covered an array of topics, including a defense of the legitimacy of military...
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