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That was the subject of a debate the other day put on by a group called Intelligence Squared--which was attended and summarized by Lawfare reader John Mattiace. Mattiace is an attorney practicing in New ...
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Bruce Ackerman has an interesting piece at Foreign Policy this week, arguing that the “congressional resolutions authorizing combat in Afghanistan and Iraq no longer justify military operations in either...
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The appellant and appellee briefs for Alsabri v. Obama, a Guantanamo habeas case in the D.C. Circuit, are now available. You can read Ben's thoughts on the District Court's decision here and Bobby's thou...
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That's what somebody in the government is saying today, on reading this Washington Post story about a contract dispute between two aviation companies involved in CIA renditions--a dispute that seems to i...
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Mark Mazzetti had a piece yesterday in the Times covering the important news that CIA once again has located and killed al Qaeda's top officer for operational planning (Atiyah abd al-Rahman, who took ove...
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The New York Times is reporting that the CIA has demanded "extensive cuts from the memoir of a former F.B.I. agent who spent years near the center of the battle against Al Qaeda." Ali Soufan has been a v...
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Thomas Drake, the former NSA employee who was charged with leaking classified information, in a case that collapsed last month, has this oped in the Washington Post today. Money quote:
From 2001 through ...
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Yesterday the Justice Department filed a memorandum (h/t Charlie Savage) in support of its motion to dismiss the lawsuit by ten members of Congress against President Obama over the Libya operation. The ...
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As Raff notes, the Washington Post has an editorial this week drawing attention to the important case of Ali Mussa Daqduq, the Lebanese Hezbollah commander who entered Iraq to participate in the insurgen...
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Paul Starobin, whose New York Times piece this weekend was the subject of these earlier thoughts, writes in with the following response:
I agree with Benjamin Wittes that there is an important, even a vi...
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Paul Starobin has a piece in the New York Times pondering the flip-flop of Harold Koh on war powers:
During the Bush administration, he was legendary for his piercing criticisms of “executive muscle flex...
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Here is the July 29 opinion in which Judge Brinkema explains why NYT reporter James Risen will not have to testify, in the Jeffrey Sterling leak prosecution, about whether Sterling was Risen’s source for...
