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On August 19, Judge Boasberg of the DC District Court ruled that former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh enjoys immunity from suit for alleged human rights abuses of Sikhs in India while he was Prime...
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Editor’s Note: China’s establishment last November of an Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) shook many observers, who feared it was a first step in a more aggressive Chinese foreign policy. Here at t...
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Here's a novelty: Guantanamo detainee Abdul Razak Ali---whose case we have written about a fair bit---has filed a reply brief in response to his own cert petition.
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In the wake of Thursday’s statements by Joint Chiefs Chairman Martin Dempsey and Friday’s comments by Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes, it sounds like the U.S. Government is at least consideri...
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As Bobby has noted, Karen DeYoung of the Washington Post is reporting that the Administration is now considering more seriously whether to ask Congress for authorization to use military force against the...
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News broke yesterday that the Russian military has moved artillery units inside of Ukraine and that Russian troops are actively using them against Ukranian forces---a move with dramatic escalatory potent...
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Here's the government's response to the GAO report, to which Wells linked yesterday, concluding that the Bergdahl trade violated the law. A statement from Pentagon Press Secretary Rear Admiral John Kirby...
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If U.S. involvement in Iraq increases, can discussion of the President’s war powers under Article II be far behind? Jack noted the politics at play in the lack of congressional authorization for the use ...
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The Washington Post reports tonight that the White House is actively considering whether to go to Congress to seek an explicit authorization to use force against ISIL.
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There are two new NSA email metadata collection program documents on the DNI's Tumblr site, IContheRecord.
From the site:
Following a declassification review by the Executive Branch, the Department of ...
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"There is no simple answer on whether to submit to terrorist extortion," editorializes the New York Times today. Actually, there is a right answer---and it's a relatively simple one.
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NATO officials announced today that the Russian military has moved artillery units manned by Russian personnel inside Ukraine in recent days and is actively using them against Ukrainian forces, reports