From The Onion: MIRANSHAH, PAKISTAN—According to CIA officials and sources on the ground in the region, an unlikely friendship has developed between a 9-year-old Pakistani boy and a U.S. MQ-1 Predator dr...

I’ve had a chance to read the draft Executive Order on cybersecurity now and several thoughts spring to mind. For those who like the bottom line up front: I am, honestly, of two minds about this effort....

Well, here's the "publicly circulating" draft of the executive order on cybersecurity, helpfully entitled: White House Draft Executive Order (Publicly Circulating Copy - 11-1-12).  Note however that is d...

Over at Opinio Juris, Kevin Jon Heller notes a new draft article he has posted on SSRN regarding the legality of signature strikes under international law. Kevin assures me that "Lawfare types certainly ...

Gabor Rona of Human Rights First took some time out from today's hurricane to send me the following thoughts on my post from Friday engaging Glenn Greenwald on the subject of counting civilian casualties...

I am hereby ending my boycott of Glenn Greenwald. I'm doing it not because his latest post about me refrained from personal attack or adopted the sort of civil tone to which I think the public debate sh...

I agree with Bobby’s analysis of this morning’s Washington Post profile by Karen DeYoung of John Brennan, and would add these thoughts: Eliminating CIA’s Drone Capacities.  Count me as skeptical that we...

[Note: I'd originally indicated that Greg Miller wrote this second piece in the Post series, but in fact it was Karen de Young -- my apologies to Karen!

Splayed across the front page of the Washington Post this morning is the headline "U.S.

There were basically none. No discussion of Guantanamo, of habeas, of the NDAA, of interrogation, of military commissions, of targeted killing---and only the most cursory mention of drone strikes. This i...