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Midday yesterday, I ran into a prominent national security reporter on the street near Brookings. The conversation quickly turned, as conversations tend to turn in our circles in Washington these days, t...
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A couple of months ago, I noted an interesting law suit brought by several victims of terrorist attacks. They had secured default money judgments against Iran, North Korea and Syria for those country’s a...
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Via Secrecy News, I see that the CRS has summarized and analyzed the seven proposals in Congress for a New AUMF.
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Deb Riechman at AP is reporting:
Militant leaders from the Islamic State group and al-Qaida gathered at a farm house in northern Syria last week and agreed on a plan to stop fighting each other and work ...
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Editor's note: For quite a while now, social media enthusiasts have been using the hashtag #tbt (or, in long-form, “Throwback Thursday”) as a way to reminisce about the past. Now Lawfare has decided to g...
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We share the program this week with Orin Kerr, a regular guest who knows at least as much as we do about most of these topics and who jumps in on many of them. Orin, of course, is a professor of law at ...
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Breaking news flooding onto our Twitter streams today: the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria has released a new audio recording of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, accompanied by English translation of his remarks.
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The Pew Research Internet Project has released a new public opinion study that shows exactly what you would expect the public believes about privacy, surveillance, and related matters. The study seems to...
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I am (as I have previously noted) no expert on climate change. But reading the text of the much-vaunted U.S.-China Joint Announcement on Climate Change makes me think there is a large gap between how th...
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The order grants a motion filed by Al-Nashiri, and was handed down today by Circuit Judges Cornelia Pillard and Judith Rogers, over the dissent of Circuit Judge Brett Kavanaugh. It's gist is temporarily ...
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Twenty years ago, Adam Roberts made the following observation in his essay, "Land Warfare: From Hague to Nuremberg," in The Laws of War: Constraints on Warfare in the Western World (1994, pp. 116-139):
T...
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As Congress enters its lame-duck session, Foreign Policy outlines the nine ways that foreign policy will dominate the agenda.
Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) anticipates that the Senate will soon consider an A...
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As previewed by Charlie Savage in the New York Times this morning, the U.S. delegation appeared before the Committee Against Torture in Geneva today and announced a modest but important change in the U.S.
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The New York Times has a useful article today on autonomous weapon systems and debate about their regulation. The issue is also on the discussion agenda this week in Geneva for the UN Convention on Cert...
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Allow me to stress an issue perhaps in the capillaries, rather than at the heart, of the ISIS AUMF debate: language in the next AUMF’s preamble.
So far as I know, nobody is talking about this just yet.
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Streaming video is below.
As noted earlier, Senator Tim Kaine (D-Va) will give remarks on ISIS and congressional authorization; afterwards, Wilson Center Director and former Representative Jane Harman, ...
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It's ongoing now. Details are available here. and live streaming video is available over at C-SPAN.
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The New York Times' Charlie Savage has the scoop:
WASHINGTON — A treaty ban on cruel treatment will restrict how the United States may treat prisoners in certain places abroad, the Obama administration ...
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The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board is is an advisory body to assist the President and other senior Executive branch officials in ensuring that concerns with respect to privacy and civil libe...
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Two quick reactions to John Bellinger’s post on a new ISIL AUMF:
I agree that the new Congress and not the lame duck Congress is best suited to revise the 2001 AUMF (and, in my opinion, also to put the ...
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