Jeh Johnson, the General Counsel of the Department of Defense, is currently speaking about detention legislation at the Heritage Foundation. The livestream is available here.

Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker of the NYT report that the Obama administration considered using offensive cyber-weapons in the war in Libya, but in the end did not use them.  Schmitt and Shanker give seve...

Cully Stimson (Heritage) has posted a very handy review of the pros and cons of the pending NDAA FY12 bills, highlighting both the useful and problematic aspects of that legislation.  And as a reminder, ...

Yesterday Jack linked to this piece by Noah Feldman, which among other things advances the argument that the Obama administration has resorted to drone strikes at least in part in order to avoid having t...

Drone strikes in Southern Yemen killed nine members of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) on Friday, including Ibrahim al-Bana, the terrorist organization's media chief, and, according to tribal el...

That is the headline from ABC News.  The War Powers Resolution notification to Congress states in part: I have authorized a small number of combat-equipped U.S. forces to deploy to central Africa to prov...

Jack highlighted a Wired story last week about a computer virus infecting the Air Force's drone fleet, including the virtual "cockpits" at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada.

The first thing to say about today's long-belated New York Times editorial on the Al-Aulaqi killing--and the memo justifying it--is that it is not a ridiculous document, and I'm not going to ridicule it....

Better late that never, the New York Times has finally run an editorial on the Al Aulaqi strike. This makes it impossible to accept new entries in the Write the New York Times Al-Aulaqi Editorial Compet...

This is a pretty remarkable development.  Authorities have arrested a dual US-Iranian citizen on charges that he conspired with a senior official of Iran's Qods Force (of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionar...