Having now returned from my undisclosed location, here's a transcript of the Senate floor debate on the NDAA. The Senate debated the bill on Thursday and Friday. This transcript, helpfully includes only...

The UK for some time has been wrestling with the problem of civil litigation that implicates states secrets.  Foreign Minister William Hague addressed the issue eloquently in this speech, which in releva...

The full Seventh Circuit has granted the government’s motion to rehear en banc Vance v. Rumsfeld, a suit by two U.S. citizens alleging that they were detained and tortured by U.S. forces in Iraq.

Oral arguments in Lebron v. Rumsfeld took place before the Fourth Circuit on Wednesday.

Tomorrow, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit will hear oral arguments in Lebron v. Rumsfeld, in which Jose Padilla and his mother, Estella Lebron, appeal a district court's dismissal of a B...

The text of the speech that Jeh Johnson, General Counsel of the Department of Defense, gave at the Heritage Foundation earlier today is available here. We will post the video of the event, including the ...

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...

My colleague Noah Feldman has an interesting essay on Bloomberg that draws connections between the controversial Bush-era legal opinions on interrogation and President Obama's targeted killing policy.  T...

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan has released its report on the treatment of detainees in the custody of the Afghan government. Here is the executive summary: From October 2010 to Au...

I want to put discussion of whether the government should publicly disclose the full legal framework behind its targeted killings program, including the killing of Al-Aulaqi, an American citizen, in a la...

Columbia law professor Philip Bobbitt, author of Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century, writes in with the following comments in response to my comments on the Charlie Savage story: ...