As Raffaela notes below, the NDAA FY12 passed the House yesterday with the AUMF provision, section 1034, intact.  The action now moves on the Senate, and beyond that we have the prospect of negotiations ...

I have received two interesting responses to my post from last night suggesting tweaks to the AUMF reauthorization language.

I'm in the midst of grading exams for my National Security Law class, and keep finding myself thinking that I should have assigned the draft AUMF language in the NDAA FY12 bill as the basis for an essay ...

Politico has two pieces today of interest to Lawfare readers. The first is a lengthy Josh Gerstein & Charles Hoskinson analysis of this week's debate in the House on revising the AUMF. The second, an op-...

Ever since my exchange with Daphne Eviatar and Bobby's post last night, I have been wondering if there's an easy tweak to Rep. Buck McKeon's AUMF reaffirmation language. Specifically, could Rep. McKeon m...

The number of violent acts committed in Iraq by insurgents, terrorists, and militias over the past eight years in Iraq boggles the mind.

I confess that I'm a bit bewildered by the aggressiveness of the Statement of Administration Policy on the NDAA--about which Bobby just posted. As Bobby notes, the administration seems to be threatening ...

Very interesting.  The six-page Statement of Administration Policyrelating to HR 1540, the proposed National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2012, is here.  There are many objections, requests, and veto...

Over the dissent of Justices Breyer and Sotomayor (no separate opinions), the Supreme Court today denied cert. in Khadr v.

Josh Gerstein of the Politico is reporting a fascinating development in the rules of the Detainee Review Boards at Bagram: The Obama Administration has taken a step to have official representatives for U...

Anyone who wants to understand in a nutshell the difference between the New York Times editorial board and the Washington Post editorial board on counter-terrorism issues--and, actually, on a broader arr...

...the Iranians have announced that they are initiating human rights reporting about conditions in the West.