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: ...

I was planning to write a piece this morning pointing out that Charlie Savage's story--to which I linked last night and which describes in some detail the legal rationale in the OLC opinion authorizing t...

Charlie Savage of the New York Times has filed this FOIA suit in an effort to acquire a classified report issued by DOJ and ODNI to Congress "pertaining to intelligence collection authorities" under sect...

Steve Aftergood at Secrecy News reports that the government has filed a motion in the Sterling leak prosecution urging the court to “bar the defendant [Sterling] from presenting any evidence, argument or...

In response to some push back, and at the risk of some repetition, I would like to clarify a bit more why I think there is no serious bar to the government revealing more about the legal basis for its ac...

In the past couple of days, both Jack and I have called for greater transparency concerning the legal rationale for the drones program.

"God bless Ben," Spencer Ackerman writes, "he's really trying hard to think through what the rules ought to be for killing an American citizen accused of terrorist membership." My effort in that regard, ...