We now have a collection of speeches from the past two years by the Obama administration's top lawyers in the national security agencies and departments on targeted killing and (hypothetically speaking) ...

The Rogers-Ruppersberger bill will come to the floor the week of April 23.  It's information sharing provisions are likely to be the crux of the debate on the House side.  Today, the Manager's filed a dr...

Yesterday’s speech by CIA General Counsel Stephen Preston has generated criticism from Deborah Pearlstein, on Opinio Juris.

In earlier posts I’ve written generally about the information sharing provisions of the Lieberman-Collins cybersecurity bill and the McCain bill.  Today I want to continue drilling down in comparing the ...

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.

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...

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...

No commentary necessary: Could The Use Of Flying Death Robots Be Hurting America's Reputation Worldwide?

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...

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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 ...