The New America Foundation has released a fact sheet listing the identities of Guantanamo Bay detainees who are "confirmed to be or suspected of engaging in militant activities against either U.S. or non...

From Harold Koh’s speech to the Oxford Union the other day: Suppose we are back at Sept 18, 2001, and Congress has just passed the AUMF against Al Qaeda. Suppose the President –let’s assume it for the sa...

Big news out of the House Armed Services Committee: Representative Mac Thornberry (a graduate of the University of Texas School of Law, I proudly note) is going to introduce a bill enhancing oversight of...

Curtis Bradley and I have a casebook on foreign relations law that includes a heavy dose of national security law (including chapters on covert action and targeted killing) that might be of interest to L...

Earlier today, former State Department Legal Adviser Harold Koh gave a talk at the Oxford Union, entitled "How to End the Forever War?"  His remarks begin as follows: Thank you, Mr. President and Members...

As Paul noted, a new Pentagon Report to Congress states: In 2012, numerous computer systems around the world, including those owned by the U.S. government, continued to be targeted for intrusions, some o...

While we are on the subject of Mark Mazzetti’s The Way of the Knife, and for that matter while we are speaking of Mali, check out this Washington Post report on U.S.

Carrie Cordero, Georgetown’s Director of National Security Studies and a former Justice Department official, writes in with this piece on the Boston attacks and possible improvements to our approach to c...

Brian Foster of Covington & Burling, responds to my comments on his earlier guest post as follows:

Peter Margulies recently discussed the effect of the Supreme Court's recent decision in Clapper v. Amnesty International USA denying standing to plaintiffs challenging the NSA's warrantless wiretapping p...

Jess Bravin of the Wall Street Journal, the author of the recent book, The Terror Courts: Rough Justice at Guantanamo Bay, has posted the following statement on the Facebook page associated with his new ...