Jack's reading of the 2002 AUMF is more than plausible. And I wouldn't be surprised if the executive branch adopted that reading, in searching out a statutory basis for military action against ISIS.

The other day, I linked to the first two contributions to Cato Unbound's forum, “The Snowden Files: One Year Later.” Now Carrie Cordero has added an essay, which opens: There is no

Following up on a parenthetical near the end of my last post, the 2002 Iraq AUMF states in part:  “The President is authorized to use the Armed Forces of the United States as he determines to be necessar...

The march of ISIS across Iraq (and in Syria), and the Obama administration’s scramble to react to it, and the new round of drone strikes in Pakistan, and continuing and growing Islamist terrorist threats...

If you believe Glenn Greenwald's new book (which I reviewed here), the NSA's appetite for gobbling up communications is unlimited. Legal controls on its behavior are trivial. Its much-repeated claim that...

I’m sure that I and others will have more to say about this in the future, but in the meantime, here is the summary and 88-page Vodafone transparency report  that has been widely

A few weeks ago, Ben posted some comments about a Der Spiegel article that suggested the tensions between the United States and Germany were likely to die down. Not so fast, it appears. Germany’s top pro...

I laughed when I heard former Vice-President Cheney on the Laura Ingraham show (approximately the 8:15-9:10 mark) criticizing President Obama for not notifying Congress under Section 1035 of the 2014 NDA...

Over at Point of Order, Michael Stern has an amusing and informative reflection on how President Washington might have responded to a House inquiry into a military defeat in the Northwest Territories, ha...

The Obama Administration has backed away from its suggestions over the weekend that it failed to comply with the notice requirement in Section 1035 of the 2014 NDAA on constitutional grounds.

From NBC News.