My reactions to the President’s speech can be found in this essay at the CFR page.  The headline writers gave it the title of Obama Passes the Buck: The President's Empty Rhetoric on Counterterrorism.  T...

There are a number of areas in the president's speech yesterday in which Obama publicly aligns himself with critics of his administration, while promising in hard terms very little. As I described yester...

Perhaps the most puzzling and opaque aspect of President Obama's speech today involves the question of whether he did, or didn't, narrow the criteria for targeting in drone strikes.

One week ago, a senior Pentagon official went before the Senate Armed Services Committee, along with the Pentagon's top lawyers, and declared that the armed conflict with Al Qaeda and its associated forc...

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary May 23, 2013  Fact Sheet: U.S. Policy Standards and Procedures for the Use of Force in Counterterrorism Operations Outside the United States and Areas of Act...

There are many important strands to President Obama's national-security speech, but I want to focus on just one particularly noteworthy element. In clear terms, President Obama announced today that the s...

Watch President Obama's speech at National Defense University below:

I recently posted an essay, with co-author Sam Issacharoff, on what we conceive to be the key legal, institutional, and process issues concerning the use of drones for targeted killings -- and even more ...

In advance of the President's speech tomorrow, the Attorney General has just sent this letter to Senator Leahy, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, describing the Administration's legal basis for...

With President Obama's big speech tomorrow on counterterrorism policy at National Defense University in mind, Commentary Magazine has been nice enough to post today my June cover essay, "The Case for Dro...

Just in time for the President's speech on Thursday, the Hoover Institution has released Chapter 2 of our serialized book: Speaking the Law: The Obama Administration's Addresses on National Security Law....