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I'm excited to announce three new additions to Lawfare's roster of contributing editors---all of whom have written for the site before and will be familiar to our readers.
Timothy H. Edgar is a visiting...
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Editor’s Note: Autonomous weapons systems—or, as it is much more fun to call them, killer robots—are a controversial weapon of war. Critics worry that they make war more likely because they do not put so...
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On Thursday of this week, Lawfare’s Benjamin Wittes and Bobby Chesney, along with General Jack Keane, appeared before the House Armed Services Committee to provide “Outside Perspectives on the President’...
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Lawfare’s own Bobby and Ben trekked to the Hill this Thursday, to testify alongside Gen. Jack Keane before the House Armed Services Committee on the Obama administration’s AUMF. Ben testified that, while...
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Do you worry that the NSA, perhaps in a joint program with the U.S.
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The number of Assyrian Christians kidnapped by the Islamic State continues to rise. The New York Times reports that, according to one local Assyrian leader, 287 people have now been captured by the milit...
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At the outset of Wednesday's session in the Al Nashiri military commission---the criminal proceeding against a Guantanamo detainee accused of plotting, among other things, the 2000 attack on the USS Cole...
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I’m very happy to announce the call for proposals and attendees for the 8th Annual National Security Law Workshop, which will take place in Houston on May 14th and 15th this spring. Geoff Corn and I are ...
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That's the word from the Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg. I reckon this will mean the 9/11 case will be swiftly unpaused. From Rosenberg's piece:
In an abrupt retreat Friday, the Pentagon withdrew an o...
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Even casual readers of this blog are likely aware of the longstanding (and thoroughly joined) debate between Ben and me with respect to how Congress ought to update / revisit the 2001 Authorization for t...
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On Monday, a New York jury found the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinian Liberation Authority responsible for a series of terror attacks that killed and maimed American citizens in Israel from 2002...
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I highly recommend that Lawfare readers peruse the annual the Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community, as well as DNI Clapper’s opening statement before the SASC yesterday. I read b...
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Such is this gist of this quite important Motion to Grant Petition For Writ of Habeas Corpus, filed last night by attorneys for Guantanamo detainee Mukhtar Yahia Naji al Warafi. His filing opens as foll...
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Yesterday, after determining Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work's requirement that military commission judges live at Guantanamo Bay may improperly interfered with the case, Col. James Pohl halted pret...
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Last week, Ben’s NSA Constitution Day speech emerged after a long “declassification” process. One puzzle Ben grapples with in this speech is why reasonable, educated Americans have--and will continue to...
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The New York Times has an editorial today, calling for an arms control effort in cyberspace. The Times effort is, honestly, a bit simplistic, as is its conclusion:
The tougher challenge is on the global...
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The number of Syrian Christians kidnapped by ISIS in northeastern Syria over the past three days has increased to 220, according to activists.
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In our new book, Whistleblowers, Leaks and the Media, my co-editors and I talk at some length about what we characterize as the "fundamental tension" that lies at the heart of news reporting today involv...
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Prepared Testimony of Robert Chesney
Charles I. Francis Professor in Law
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Director, Strauss Center for International Security & Law
The University of Texas at Austin
Be...
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Prepared Statement of Benjamin Wittes
Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution
before the
House Committee on Armed Services
