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...

In a conversation several years ago about what was then simply a hypothesized US military exit from Afghanistan, a friend told me, think of the CIA as the French Foreign Legion.  My friend meant by that ...

In her news roundup for last Friday, Ritika briefly mentioned that a drone strike had killed four al-Shabab militants in Somalia.  The New York Times had also cursorily mentioned the strike in this shor...

Ellen Nakashima of the Washington Post reports that the White House thwarted NSA attempts to seek legislation that “would have required hundreds of companies that provide such critical services as electr...

Here is your moment of Not-Zen for the day (with thanks to my student Daniel).  (With apologies to the senior editors of Lawfare for momentarily lowering the tone.)

The New York Times is reporting that a group of flu and public health experts at a WHO-convened meeting in Geneva have decided that the full research details will be released regarding the highly contagi...

I hope it is not snarkish to hope that by the time I hit "publish" on this post, the director of the National Constitution Center's "Peter Jennings Project," Todd Brewster, will have corrected his articl...

In a recent ABC News/Washington Post poll, seventy percent of respondents (including a majority of self-identified liberal Democrats) said they approve of keeping open the Guantanamo Bay detention facili...