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Another unpleasant proposed spending restriction related to trying suspected terrorists--this time from Senator Kelly Ayotte. This is a proposed amendment to an appropriations bill for the Justice Depart...
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Here is the text of Pentagon General Counsel Jeh Johnson's comments on AUMF reaffirmation, which I discussed yesterday in this post:
CULLY STIMSON: . . . there are proposals on the Hill regarding reaffir...
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Jeh Johnson's speech at the Heritage Foundation, which Ben discussed in his earlier post, generated a lot of press today: the Washington Post's Peter Finn reports on Johnson's warning against the "over-...
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I had been waiting for the video of Pentagon General Counsel Jeh Johnson's speech at the Heritage Foundation to be released to post thoughts it. But I awoke this morning to press coverage of the speech t...
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Lots going on since the weekend:
Saudi Arabia is pushing for the alleged Iranian assasination plot to be brought to the United Nations in a bit of regional power play, and the Iranian Foreign Ministry d...
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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 ...
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Kim Zetter at Wired writes this afternoon of the discovery of a strain of malware that appears to build in significant part on components of Stuxnet--but that functions more as a reconnaisance tool enabl...
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Jeh Johnson, the General Counsel of the Department of Defense, is currently speaking about detention legislation at the Heritage Foundation. The livestream is available here.
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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...
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As I've noted before (including this morning), I’ve been at work for some time on a paper exploring the legal issues generated by the convergence of military and intelligence activities and institutions—...
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Cully Stimson (Heritage) has posted a very handy review of the pros and cons of the pending NDAA FY12 bills, highlighting both the useful and problematic aspects of that legislation. And as a reminder, ...
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Published by Hoover Institution Press (2011)
Reviewed by Kenneth Anderson
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The Supreme Court has granted cert in the Kiobel case, in which the Second Circuit held last fall that corporations may not be held liable for violations of the "law of nations" under the Alien Tort Stat...
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Yesterday Jack linked to this piece by Noah Feldman, which among other things advances the argument that the Obama administration has resorted to drone strikes at least in part in order to avoid having t...
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Peter Margulies writes in with an excellent summary of what sounds like a fascinating conference Friday at Boston University:
BU’s conf.
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Pardiss Kebriaei writes in with the following response to my admittedly harsh summary of her D.C. Circuit argument in Al-Zahrani, in which I suggested that she had no good answer to a pretty basic jurisd...
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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...
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Drone strikes in Southern Yemen killed nine members of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) on Friday, including Ibrahim al-Bana, the terrorist organization's media chief, and, according to tribal el...
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That is the headline from ABC News. The War Powers Resolution notification to Congress states in part:
I have authorized a small number of combat-equipped U.S. forces to deploy to central Africa to prov...
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Raffaela has decamped to an undisclosed location for a few weeks, so I'll be rounding up headlines and commentary for a spell. Feel free to email me noteworthy articles worth my including at singh.lawfa...
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