The White House has issued the following statement announcing that--and why--it will not veto the NDAA: Statement from the Press Secretary on the NDAA Bill    We have been clear that “any bill that chall...

Check out this post from Josh Gerstein of the Politico describing FBI Director Robert Mueller's fears about how the NDAA conference report--even with the latest changes--will still "muddle the roles of t...

Here is a letter  from Congressman Adam Smith (D-WA), the ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, defending and clarifying the detention provisions in the NDAA  and advocating for its passa...

For reasons I plan to elaborate upon in this and subsequent posts, I'm not at all convinced that the conference version of the NDAA is substantially better than the House or Senate version (or that eithe...

I've created concise PDF versions of the NDAA bill and the accompanying explanatory statement, cutting out all the non-detainee materials from both documents.

Section 1022 of the Conference version of the NDAA carries forward section 1032 of the Senate version, which has been widely described as a mandatory military detention provision for a subset of detainab...

[UPDATE (12/13/11, 9:45): A careful reader points out that in the earlier Senate bill, there were no commas after the words "United States citizens" and "lawful resident aliens of the United States".  So...

I am still digesting the new NDAA language, and I'm not yet ready to say how come out on it. It is, without question, significantly better than either the House or Senate bills. Yet some of its provision...

The conference report for the NDAA is now available. Subtitle D, entitled "Counterterrorism," begins on page 653 and runs through page 685. The conferees' explanation of their choices begins on page 158 ...

Canadian forces may be largely on their way out of Afghanistan, but for a Kabul-based contingent focused on training Afghans, but the prospect that they might nonetheless in the position of capturing a p...

A host of recent events--Iran's shoot-down of a U.S. drone, the downward spiral in US-Pakistani relations, and rumors of peace talks between the Pakistani government and Pakistani extremist groups--combi...

Whatever else one might say about the D.C. Circuit's jurisprudence in the Guantanamo litigation, it's certainly been a jobs program...