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...

As Raffaela noted in today's news summary, it is being reported today that EU naval forces attacked pirate bases on the Somali mainland.  Several people have asked: "The EU has a navy?" The background h...

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...

An important story from Ben Weiser at the New York Times, from this morning, describes an interesting new development in the prosecution of Mohamed Ibrahim Ahmed--a case that receives little attention, b...

Peter Margulies of Roger Williams University School of Law writes in with the following summary of a recent Naval War College and Roger Williams workshop: John Brennan’s recent speech on targeting away f...

[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 ...

Now sooner did I complain about the lack of editorial response to John Brennan's speech on drones than the Washington Post has published this editorial on drone strikes in Yemen.  The editorial goes on t...