I have largely refrained from commenting on the machinations over this year's NDAA--in part because I'm still a little worn out from last year's NDAA, and in part because the issue seems to me a bit of t...

The White House SAP on HR 4310 (NDAA FY'13) also has a brief reference to the proposed "military activities in cyberspace" provision, but it does little more than flag that the White House intends to eng...

The White House has issued a SAP (Statement of Administration Policy) threatening to veto HR 4310 (the NDAA FY '13) on various grounds, including objections to the detainee provisions found in sections 1...

Over at DefCon Hill, Jeremy Herb shares a letter written by former Attorneys General Edwin Meese III and Michael Mukasey and former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff to House Armed Services...

I have thus far stayed fairly mum on the FY2013 National Defense Authorization Act, if for no other reason than the 150 exams (now 80) that I have to grade.

As Bobby noted previously, Rep. Adam Smith and others are proposing amendments to this year's NDAA that would make certain changes to the detention-related provisions implemented by last year's NDAA.  Am...

[UPDATE: If one looks at the draft NDAA provisions approved by the HASC Emerging Threats Subcomittee (Chairman Mac Thornberry, Hook 'Em), there is at section 942 a provision calling for quarterly reporti...

A quick note updating readers on the progress of the draft NDAA FY'13:  Chairman McKeon's bill passed HASC last night in the wee hours.  Next stop: the floor, where we are likely to see, among other thin...

The other day, David Rivkin and Cully Stimson had this oped in the Washington Post on the recently-passed Virginia law that seeks to prohibit state cooperation with detentions of American citizens under ...

[UPDATE 5/10/12: Whoops.  Careful readers will note that the new bill omits the congressional-notification language from last year's bill...at least in the text of the statute, though not in the explanat...

Yeesh.  Yesterday I noted that Chairman McKeon's NDAA draft includes a "Daqduq rule" -- i.e., a provision requiring the Defense Department to notify Congress before transferring certain detainees held at...

I received the list below (of "Significant Cyber Attacks" on Federal systems since 2004) from sources on Capitol Hill last week.  After reading through it and checking the data, it seemed worth making th...