Last week, the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) approved its version of the National Defense Authorization Act for FY2014.

The following is a guest post from Jeff Powell, a Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law.  He twice served in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, as Deputy Assistant Attorney Gen...

As the Supreme Court's October 2012 Term enters its climactic closing week, I've been thinking a lot about the most important national security decision of the Term--the 5-4 February 26 decision in

There is a subtle connection between the unfolding NSA metadata controversy and the controversy that has long plagued the administration's position on drone strikes, involving the impact of transparency ...

Last week I noted that Ayman al Zawahiri, head of AQ, issued a statement directing that AQI and al Nusrah remain separate entities within the AQ system, and I pointed out various questions this raised fr...

It is dated this Friday, and begins as follows: Dear Mr. Speaker: (Dear Mr. President:) I am providing this supplemental consolidated report, prepared by my Administration and consistent with the War Po...

Over the last 24 hours, the House debated and voted on nearly 200 amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act of 2014 (H.R. 1960). Many of these amendments were approved via "voice vote" (there ...

OMB has issued a Statement of Administration Policy (SAP) pointing out White House objections to various elements in pending NDAA legislation (H.R.

Wells already flagged yesterday's news re: General Martins' apparent skepticism about the availability of conspiracy and military commission charges in future military commission cases (at least those br...

Five years ago today, the Supreme Court handed down its 5-4 decision in Boumediene v. Bush, holding that the Constitution's Suspension Clause "has full effect" at Guantánamo Bay, and that the review sche...