This is rich. An English-language Saudi newspaper, the Saudi Gazette, has an editorial entitled "Close Guantanamo" bashing President Obama for failing to keep his campaign pledge to close the detention ...

Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, the estimable John Elwood questions whether columnist Charles Krauthammer has got wrong whether the president has discretion not to deport large numbers of undocumented ali...

I actually don't have much to say, now that it's here, on the New York Times editorial on the detention case cert denials.

Steve's mention earlier that he was positively soft on the D.C. Circuit compared to the Times reminded me that we haven't seen any sign yet of the inevitable editorial bashing the justices for failing to...

Dawood I. Ahmed, a lawyer and doctoral candidate at the University of Chicago Law School, writes in with the following thoughts on Pakistani press coverage of the Shakil Afridi case: The conviction of Dr...

No, I am not going to attack the New York Times for factual errors in its editorial this morning concerning President Obama's personal approval of drone targets. While there may be some, none jumped out ...

The New York Times this morning has a lengthy, rich, and detailed feature story on President Obama's counterterrorism record. Reporters Jo Becker and Scott Shane have done a really terrific job of bringi...

Over at the Empty Wheel blog, The Estimable Ms.

As Raffaela noted earlier, Atlantic blogger Conor Friedersdorf has written in praise (sort of) of conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer for the latter’s opposition to domestic drones. I would consid...

My Brookings colleague Daniel Byman and I have a paper out on the Brookings web site on terrorism as an issue in the 2012 presidential campaign. The paper is high-altitude and not chiefly about law. It i...

I could pick factual nits with today's New York Times editorial on the referral of charges in the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed case. If I were in that sort of mood, I'd start with the first sentence, which rea...

President Obama, at his press conference yesterday, in response to republican candidates’ hawkish calls for a more aggressive posture toward Iran: Now, what’s said on the campaign trail -- those folks do...