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Welcome back. I hope you ate your fill of turkey and pumpkin pie, and if you were one of the fearless souls who braved the Black Friday mobs, that you returned home triumphant, in one piece, and without ...
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Four Five amicus briefs have been filed in the D.C.
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I had an op-ed over the weekend arguing that last week’s Defense Department report to Congress – which announced for the first time a policy of using offensive cyber weapons in response to threats or use...
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Lawfare Book Review Editor Kenneth Anderson is planning, in short order, to launch a new feature flagging and recommending must-read scholarship in the world of national security and law--a matter on whi...
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Over the past month, according to data from Google Analytics, Lawfare's readership has hailed overwhelmingly--as always--from the United States (nearly 86 percent of visitors). Readers from the United Ki...
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Senator Mark Udall of Colorado is pushing an amendment to the NDAA to strip the bill of its detainee-affairs provisions and require further study of the relevant issues from both the executive branch and...
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I missed this before Thanksgiving, I'm afraid, but fortunately, the invaluable Josh Gerstein did not:
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper is joining the chorus of Obama administration voices ...
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I am going to take a blogging break over the next 24 hours to confront a profound Thanksgiving challenge: What one feeds vegetarians that is somehow in keeping with the thematic spirit of a dinner whose ...
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I have one thought to add to Bobby's observations yesterday about the legal implications of finishing off the Al Qaeda core in Pakistan. House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon has taken a be...
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Tomorrow you may gorge on turkey, but you're about to go on a four-day news and commentary diet. So here's your fix before the fast.
Let's start with last night's GOP debate on national security, which ...
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Greg Miller of the Washington Post has an important story this morning addressing the possibility that the original al Qaeda network is but a drone strike or two away from eradication:
The leadership ran...
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The Republican presidential candidates debated national security and foreign policy issues last night in Washington. Ritika teed up the debate here with links to the Post’s preview of issues to watch and...
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The eight Republican candidates for president will gather tonight for their trillionth twelfth debate at 8 PM tonight, in an event that will focus on national security and foreign policy.
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More developments in the Jose Pimentel case: The Associated Press reports on how this case ended up in New York state court, rather than as a federal case:
The NYPD’s Intelligence Division had sought to ...
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As readers no doubt are aware, the NYPD has arrested Jose Pimentel on an array of terrorism-related charges. The case is distinctive in that it is not a federal prosecution, which is occasioning some co...
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A thwarted terrorist plot to kick-start your week: the New York Times reports that a Manhattan man by the name of Jose Pimentel, a convert to Islam, was approximately an hour away from completing at leas...
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Having now returned from my undisclosed location, here's a transcript of the Senate floor debate on the NDAA.
The Senate debated the bill on Thursday and Friday. This transcript, helpfully includes only...
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Daphne Eviatar of Human Rights First writes in with the following comments on Latif and the detention provisions of the NDAA:
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Ben wrote last week about the Administration’s threat to veto the Defense Authorization Bill, in large part because of its detainee transfer and related provisions.
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What do you think the chances are that the New York Times editorial folks could have managed to produce this editorial--and without any glaring factual errors--without having read this post and this one ...
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