Not a lot new in here, but it's interesting to hear it all from the perspective of Jose Rodriguez, the former head of the CIA Clandestine Service and the man who supervised the agency's interrogation pro...

I’m very excited to join the Lawfare team. As a first post, I’d draw readers’ attention to Jack’s Washington Post op-ed, in which he discusses how candidate Romney might to try to differentiate himself f...

Defense counsel for the five alleged 9/11 co-conspirators  have filed several motions challenging the closed-door nature of some military commission proceedings. Although the filings haven't been releas...

How should we understand CIA General Counsel Stephen Preston's speech at Harvard Law School the other day? It is not, like earlier speeches by senior administration lawyers and counterterrorism officials...

My old colleague Daniel Klaidman from days of yore at Legal Times writes in with a guest post on CIA General Counsel Stephen Preston's speech at Harvard Law School.

Yesterday’s speech by CIA General Counsel Stephen Preston has generated criticism from Deborah Pearlstein, on Opinio Juris.

CIA General Counsel Stephen is giving the following remarks today at Harvard Law School: Remarks of The Honorable Stephen W. Preston General Counsel Central Intelligence Agency Harvard Law School Cambri...

Peter Margulies responds to Jameel Jaffer’s response: I appreciate Jameel’s response to my earlier post, as I appreciate the work that he and the ACLU have done in promoting transparency.  However, Jamee...

The ACLU’s Jameel Jaffer responds to Peter Margulies' post yesterday on “moving the goal posts”: Peter is mistaken.  We filed that suit because we thought the photos would help the public understand what...

Peter Margulies writes in with this response to my request for examples of NGOs moving the goalposts in their demands about counterterrorism legal policy. Administration critics “moved the goal posts” in...

Following up on his post yesterday on secret evidence in civil cases in Britain, Hugo Rosemont writes in this morning with a brief update:  In other recent developments....   i. The Secretary of State fo...