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The question before a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Tuesday morning: can a group of detainees held by the United States at Bagram airfield, in Afghanistan, challenge their detentions by petitioni...
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Mark Twain supposedly said "History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes." President Obama and Secretary John Kerry must hate the rhyme, as their frustrating experience confronting Assad and Syria echo...
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For those interested in arguments about international law and possible military intervention in Syria, I highly recommend great essays by two authors from the United Kingdom (as readers may recall, the U...
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The most puzzling line in the President’s strange speech last night was this:
[E]ven though I possess the authority to order military strikes, I believed it was right, in the absence of a direct or immin...
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Julian Ku is right to poke fun at the administration for conveying its vague and conclusory legal rationale for intervening in Syria through the reporting of the NYT’s Charlie Savage. But vague and conc...
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Sam Tanenhaus had an essay over the weekend in the NYT that I think is at bottom a “little c” conservative critique of President Obama’s Syria push. But the essay makes little sense, at least to me.
Ta...
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I normally let our podcast posts speak for themselves, but I want to say a particular word about the event Brookings held on Thursday, which Wells just posted as the latest episode of the Lawfare Podcast...
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Senators Manchin and Heitcamp are working on an alternative Syria Resolution that tentatively provides:
The failure by the government of Bashar al-Assad to sign and comply with the [Chemical Weapons] Con...
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The rhetoric of “punishment” has been a ubiquitous justification for intervening in Syria.
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Steven Aftergood from Secrecy News has helpfully posted new and updated Congressional Research Service reports on the conflict in Syria:
Possible U.S. Intervention in Syria: Issues for Congress, Septembe...
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Last Saturday President Obama said he had “decided that the United States should take military action against Syrian regime targets,” and that he had made that decision “as Commander-in-Chief based on wh...
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Among the documents that Edward Snowden released are reports showing that the NSA had been picking up email and phone conversations by and among foreign leaders. Among the alleged targets were officials...
