On Thursday, Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper released the Statistical Transparency Report Regarding Use of National Security Authorities for Calendar Year 2013. The introduction reads:...

The Stimson Center released today the report of its Task Force on US Drone Policy. The ten-member task force, of which I was a member, was chaired by General John Abizaid and Rosa Brooks. The report m...

The Second Circuit has just released a redacted version of the OLC Drone Memo--here is the memo; here is the panel's full, revised April 21, 2014 decision with the memo appended at page 67. You'll recal...

President Obama will make a statement on Iraq, beginning at 1:15 p.m. Live-streaming video and the transcript of his remarks can be found below. THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everybody. I just met wi...

Because Curtis Bradley and I have a new edition of our Foreign Relations Law casebook, we only have a slim summer update, here.   It has an excerpt of B

Today the government filed its response opposing Abdul Rahim Abdul Razak al Janko's petition for an en banc rehearing. Back in January, a three-judge panel of the D.C.

Today's ruling in Smith v. Obama grants the government's motion to dismiss, and thus bats away a Fourth Amendment-based challenge to NSA telephone metadata collection---for the reasons one would expect. ...

Senator Corker has an op-ed in the WP on the need to update the AUMF.   He documents the growth of extra-AUMF terrorist threats and then argues: These incidents seem to suggest that the September 2001 Au...

A remarkable development out of a grand jury in the Western District of Pennsylvania: five named members of the Chinese military have been indicted for economic cyberespionage.  Details from the DOJ pres...

How very unpleasant: Rand Paul announces, only semi-coherently, that he is filibustering David Barron's First Circuit nomination. The statement reads: "I've read David Barron's memos concerning the lega...

IC on the Record released this important announcement and new trove of declassified documents: DNI Announces the Release of Additional Documents Related to Collection Activities Authorized by President G...

Now available: a six-strong batch of