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I have a lot of regard for Jeffrey Goldberg, and partly for that reason, I'm a little taken aback by these comments made to Mother Jones concerning Anwar Al-Aulaqi. Goldberg has been on overdrive recentl...
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Responding to my earlier post on Buck McKeon's detention bill, Adam Serwer says the following, on which I cannot improve:
I still maintain that there's less difference between Republican and administrati...
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Not too many folks are familiar with the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, a body Congress created in 2000 to report periodically on, well, economic and security issues associated with ...
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In his speech yesterday, incoming House Armed Services chairman Buck McKeon promised that his committee would work in the coming Congress on a "legal framework" for detention. Here's hoping he is more se...
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William Greider argues in an interesting essay in The Nation that President Obama’s political difficulties are tied to his failure to exercise the full powers of the presidency.
Given the election result...
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An interesting new issue has landed at the D.C. Circuit: Whether courts retain habeas jurisdiction even after a detainee leaves U.S. custody.
Last week, two former Guantánamo detainees filed their merit...
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In posting earlier this evening this speech by Republican Rep. Buck McKeon, the incoming chair of the House Armed Services Committee, I promised thoughts on its virtues and vices. The short version is th...
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A fascinating story in the Guardian today concerning objections within the human rights community to the ACLU/CCR lawsuit on behalf of Anwar al-Aulaki. Most notably, the story quotes a member of CCR's B...
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Republican Rep. Buck McKeon, who will chair the House Armed Services Committee in the new Congress gave a speech today at the Foreign Policy Initiative that touched on, among other things, detainee polic...
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This article in GQ has generated a fair bit of unfavorable buzz about Attorney General Eric Holder. The article is, in my judgment, rather unfair--both to Holder and to the Bush administration folks who ...
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President Bush’s new book Decision Points, and the interviews Bush has given in connection with the book, have caused some commentators from different parts of the political spec
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The Washington Post is reporting this morning that the administration's solution to the problem of how to try KSM and his buddies may be, well, not to bother:
Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed m...
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Today the government made available the public version of its brief in Warafi v. Obama. Readers may recall that this case is the petitioner's appeal from Chief Judge Royce Lamberth’s March opinion denyin...
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Links and abstracts for some recent scholarship and events relating to national security law:
Audio from UVA Panel on Targeted Killing
On November 1, the Federalist Society and the J.B.
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A story on NPR's All Things Considered tonight ("Al-Qaida, Affiliates Showing Greater Coordination") conveys a claim by U.S.
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The bulk of the fighting in World War I ended in 1918 when an armistice took effect at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month -- i.e., at 11 a.m.
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This afternoon, the Brookings Institution was honored to host Justice Stephen Breyer for a lively discussion, which I moderated, on his new book: Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View.
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I’d like to draw attention to a handful of Mexico-related items this afternoon. First, Tracy Wilkinson at the L.A. Times has a terrific piece discussing the degree of cartel control in Reynosa (across t...
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Mark Erickson, author of the Norwegian Shooter blog sent me a thoughtful note objecting to Bobby and my discussion of the D.C. Circuit's Salahi decision. I invited him to write up his thoughts as a guest...
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They say you can't tell where an appeals panel is headed based on the oral argument. Sometimes you can. I will go out on a limb on the one I attended today: I will eat my computer if the D.C. Circuit aff...