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I just received the following email from Air Force General Counsel Charles A. Blanchard in response to my correspondent from San Francisco, who had hypothesized that West Coast Lawfare readers might be t...
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I just received the following email from a loyal reader in the Bay Area complaining about the manner in which Google Analytics counts readers: I write in the spirit of the age-old outraged reader--th...
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Here’s a fun—and strangely evocative—factoid about Lawfare’s readership. Over this site’s nearly two years of existence, our readership has been heavily concentrated in Washington DC. Seventeen percent...
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Over at the Emptywheel blog, Ms. Wheel (aka Marcy Wheeler) has this response to former Justice Department official Carrie Cordero's guest post of this morning. She notes that Senator Wyden responded at y...
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Carrie Cordero, Georgetown's Director of National Security Studies and a former Justice Department official, writes in with the following account of a recent Cato Institute event (which, ahem, would have...
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Jonathan Horowitz of the Open Society Justice Initiative has largely positive comments on the new Army manual on avoiding civilian harm. It opens:
This month, Lawfareblog.com posted the U.S.
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I just received a very interesting email from Major John Harwood, USAF, whom I met recently at the MILOPS Conference in Singapore, in response to my post this morning about the coming Drone Smackdown:
I ...
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This Friday, I'll be joining Benjamin Powell from WilmerHale (and formerly, inter alia, the General Counsel of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence) for a Federalist Society teleforum on C...
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The Washington Post has more on who was behind the deadly attacks in Iraq and what they mean for country's stability.
Reuters reports that five female detainees linked to Al Qaeda have been released by ...
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The other day, Wells drew my attention to what could be the single most excellently eccentric national security-oriented project currently ongoing on the web: It is called Clausewitz for Kids. I am appar...
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Former Secretary of DHS, Michael Chertoff has this op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today, concerning Google's subversion of Safari's security settings. Here's the introduction:
In the cyber age, privac...
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I'm just going to link to it. There's some rhetoric I wouldn't use in here, but--as I said before and as Steve explained here--this is a provocative step the government has taken, and it shouldn't do thi...
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Laurie Blank, professor at Emory Law School and director of its International Humanitarian Law Clinic, gives Lawfare the last in the series of guest comments on Mark Mazzetti's New York Times Magazine ar...
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Over at Forbes.com, the estimable Gregory McNeal has this article about a new Army manual on preventing harm to civilians.
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The American Bar Association Standing Committee on Law and National Security has just released a new book, Patriots Debate: Contemporary Issues in National Security Law which will, I'm sure, be of intere...
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We will have two final posts in our discussion sparked by Mark Mazzetti's New York Times Magazine article, The Drone Zone. This one by Michael Lewis, a former Navy fighter pilot and now professor at Ohi...
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An important news analysis piece from Scott Shane of the New York Times. I'm glad Shane took the time to lay this out. Though the point seems very obvious to me, it is decidedly non-obvious to many peopl...
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Over at SCOTUSBlog, Lyle Denniston has a piece on the Esmail access to counsel issue I wrote about Wednesday. It opens:
For years, the federal government — in two administrations — has taken the view tha...
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Tom Junod wrote in with the following in response to Ben's earlier post:
Point taken on the "lecture from the principal" criticism: you either like that or you don't, and you didn't. But I don't think y...
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I have now had time to read Tom Junod's lengthy essay in Esquire to which Ritika linked the other day. Entitled "The Lethal Presidency of Barack Obama," it combines the form of a reported essay with a di...