There is an increasing amount of talk about judicial review for at least some decisions to place specific persons on targeting lists for the use of lethal force outside of a combat zone (drones are not t...

I asked the other day what was becoming of the persons who presumably were being captured by French, Malian, or other forces fighting the Islamist extremists in Mali.  Turns out there are a couple of ans...

There's certainly a lot to say about the DOJ white paper on targeted killings, much of which has been said already (and well) by others (see Raff's "Headlines and Commentary" post for links).  At the ris...

I missed this week AEI's panel on Zero Dark Thirty and the reality of coercive interrogation at the CIA, though I have been meaning to watch the video.

Although our own coverage of this week's pre-trial proceedings in the 9/11 military commission trial at Guantánamo already covered the issue in some detail, I couldn't help but be taken by Amy Davidson's...

A while back, I posted about a forthcoming article by Carlos Vázquez (Georgetown) and me on the relationship between Bivens remedies and state law, especially in national security cases.

As readers probably already know, the Senate ended an otherwise largely legislation-light 2012 by approving a controversial five-year extension of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 (FAA), which the House h...

John Brennan, nominated by President Obama to become the next CIA director, will apparently face some tough questioning from Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) at his Senate confirmation hearings (reportedly set f...

Last week saw several new developments in the Bradley Manning case. Prosecutors announced on Wednesday that they intend to offer evidence that Osama bin Laden received some of the classified information ...

Back in October, I wrote about the claim in this Washington Post story that John Brennan supports shifting the CIA's operations involving the use of lethal force over to the military.  Now that he is abo...

As Raffaela posted earlier, the government has won a substantial victory in the FOIA litigation in which the Times and the ACLU sought disclosure of information about CIA drone strikes, including the leg...