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(Updated and extended.) The White Paper's reference to imminence has occasioned some heated rhetoric about the Obama administration stretching the notion beyond all possible ordinary meaning or bounds, ...
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It’s just one breaking story after another these days for us national security law folk! Kind of reminds us why we even bother.
The White House will provide congressional intelligence committees with th...
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That's the word from James Connell III, an attorney for 9/11 accused Ammar al-Baluchi.
The commission's ruling---issued yesterday in connection with the case's much-discussed "who pressed the button" ep...
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Amid the flurry of writing about the White Paper’s approach to “imminence” – an important conversation, to be sure – little attention has been paid to a paragraph in the White Paper that seems to establi...
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They can be found here, and (as is typical, and from the nominee’s perspective, desirable), they contain little news.
In response to Question 7 on the CIA’s paramilitary role, Brennan says: “The CIA, a ...
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So reports Politico's Jennifer Epstein and Josh Gerstein:
President Obama has reversed course and agreed to provide the congressional intelligence committees with classified Justice Department legal advi...
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All of us have been so fixated on the DoJ White Paper and the drone controversy at home that we overlooked an important and eponymous development for this blog: lawfare in the Hague.
On January 30, a co...
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#ReplaceSongTitleWithDrone is going bananas.
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And I thought all those Google alerts about drones taking over the world were annoying. Well, they're nothing compared to the reactions to the Justice Department's White Paper on the lethal targeting of...
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While the brouhaha over the White Paper rages, Sarah Goodyear writes in The Atlantic Cities about a novel concept from one Asher J. Kohn which might, in the near future, moot the whole discussion:
"Archi...
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The central substantive issue, legally and morally, in the administration's Targeted Killing White Paper is how the concept of an "imminent threat" should be understood. This is where much of the debate ...
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Eric Posner and Jeff Rosen have sharply different takes on the White paper.
Jeff is outraged:
The Justice Department white paper released on Monday by NBC News is the public's first direct glimpse at t...
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We don't disagree with Jack that the filling in of details in the White Paper is important---and didn't mean to suggest otherwise. But the importance Jack assigns to this aspect of the White Paper is dec...
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I agree with Ben and Susan that there is little new of substance (but more detail) on imminence and other issues in the DOJ White Paper on targeted killing, and I said as much in my reaction to the White...
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Okay, everyone, take a deep breath. Chill out. The DOJ’s “White Paper” on targeted killing is no big deal. Really.
You wouldn’t know this from reading the somewhat breathless press coverage of the docume...
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That is the title of an op-ed I have coming out tomorrow in the Washington Post, which is already available on line. The premise of the piece is that, contrary to President Obama’s inaugural speech clai...
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As Steve mentioned last night, a Department of Justice White Paper (not the famed OLC memo, that is) is now out.
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We’re back, and the parties jointly request a discussion of AE56---the government’s request for oral depositions.
Regarding those, the dates the government proposed earlier are no longer feasible, for o...
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The commission is called to order, with all parties present---including the accused. The witness, Dr. Iacopino, also is “here,” albeit only virtually: he appears today by video teleconference ("VTC"), w...
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This afternoon, we continue with a second day of almost-live, CCTV-broadcasted hearings in the military commission case of United States v. Al-Nashiri. As always, Lawfare is in the house---Fort Meade's ...