Senators John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and Kelly Ayotte---who jointly filed an amicus brief in the Hedges appeal---are asking for argument time in the coming Second Circuit oral argument.

The Washington Post has an excellent article by Sudarsan Raghavan on civilian casualties in drone strikes in Yemen and the ways in which the Yemeni government tries to mask the U.S. role in these strikes...

So what exactly is in the NDAA conference report that is prompting the agitation for a presidential veto? Here is a quick and dirty summary of "Subtitle D---Counterterrorism"---along with an explanation ...

Another noteworthy development in the conference version of the NDAA is section 1025.  Think of this as a new direction in the congressionalization of detention operations in Afghanistan. What do I mean...

Politico reports that Senate and House negotiators have reached an agreement on the NDAA, with votes in both houses expected later this week...and then, on to the White House.  The full text is available...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit recently issued a decision that has the effect of both limiting political branch control over human rights suits against foreign officials while at the sa...

I may be exiled from the blog for saying this, but the New York Times has an excellent analysis of the recently concluded WCIT treaty meeting in Dubai in today's paper.  It begins: At the global treaty c...

Here is the White House's supplemental consolidated report regarding the deployment of U.S. armed forces.  The report is addressed to the Speaker of the House, and was---in the President's words---"prepa...

Today, lawyers for Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, and other federal officials sued in their individual capacities, filed a motion to dismiss in the case of Al-Aulaqi v.

As you may have read by now (reports from the New York Times and Washington Post are pretty good),  that the WCIT conference has ended in disarray.  The United States and a number of other Western countr...

The Times has an op-ed today on the WCIT conference in Dubai.  Who knows, maybe this is one Ben will agree with.

For those who have been following the ITU's conference in Dubai on international internet governance (about which both Jack and I have written previously), this interesting bit of news:  Apparently the m...