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The following guest post is from Professor Geoffrey Corn (South Texas College of Law), in response to a post in which I raised the possibility that, in light of the non-battlefield targeting standards ar...
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Christof Heyns, the UN's special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings and other bad stuff has issued a statement reiterating his call for a "moratorium" on the use of lethal autonomous robots.
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Hearing few objections (and indeed many expressions of support!), I forge ahead with Lawfare's newest feature: the Week That Was.
The week's big news was that President Obama plans to nominate James Com...
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Let’s begin with some good news about terrorists for a change.
Mansour J.
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In light of Jim Comey's reported selection as FBI director, this 2005 speech---published later in the Green Bag---is a matter of inherent interest. It's one of the things I'll be reading over the next fe...
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All you ham consumers should now be on alert: Chinese company Shuanghui International is proposing to acquire pork producer Smithfield Foods. According to the Washington Post's Howard Schneider and Brady...
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In the abstract, the last thing President Obama needs in a new FBI director is another (very) tall, white, male moderate Republican. But there are people who compel you to throw out the rule book. And Ji...
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I have written many posts about China's cyber exploitations that make two points (among others): (1) USG complaints about China’s cyber exploitations against USG databases (such as those in DOD) are hypo...
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So report the New York Times and the Washington Post.
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The Taliban’s second-in-command appears to have met the dangerous end of a Hellfire missile early this morning, reports Tim Craig of the Washington Post.
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Everyone seems to be talking about private sector active defenses these days -- but we all seem to be focused on domestic American law (witness the debate between Stewart Baker and Orin Kerr). That got ...
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The BBC is reporting that British forces have been holding up to 85 Afghan detainees at a base in Afghanistan, some for as long as 14 months. A British official is quoted as saying "Many are either sus...
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Robin Simcox, research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society in London---who wrote this guest post for Lawfare last year about control orders in the UK---writes in after last week’s horrific terrorist atta...
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As many of you might have read, the Department of Justice announced a large scale money-laundering indictment against Liberty Reserve yesterday. I will have some analysis of this development (and the re...
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The case is Federal Trade Commission v.
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Many thanks to all of of those readers---all 505 of you---who took the time to fill out our readership survey. While the survey is not a scientific instrument, the data it collects will be hugely valuabl...
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Washington Post national security reporter Greg Miller has an excellent story in Sunday's paper on the operational role of the CIA in drone warfare. Back at the time of the Brennan confirmation hearings...
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Welcome back. Here’s hoping your Memorial Day Weekend was restful and relaxing.
The biggest news item of the day is this story by Ellen Nakashima of the Washington Post.
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Those who are fans of the classic Bill Murray movie Groundhog Day will be forgiven if they see echoes of that story line in the immigration reform bill. For much as Murray is seemingly doomed to repeat ...
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Bobby’s post from Friday argued that “the current shadow war approach to counterterrorism doesn’t really require an armed-conflict predicate–or an AUMF, for that matter.” Bobby’s point is that most if n...