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Marty Lederman tries mightily to interpret Bergdahl’s release as consistent* not inconsistent with the wishes of Congress, but I don’t think he succeeds.
Section 1035 of the 2014 NDAA authorizes the Def...
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Some wonderful (and quite NDAA-relevant) news, here reported by Talking Points Memo:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The only American soldier held prisoner in Afghanistan has been freed and is back in U.S. custod...
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One of the nice things about major presidential speeches is that they often are occasions during which reporters separately get to grill unnamed "senior administration officials" for clarification. So i...
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Scooping his own speech tomorrow at West Point, President Obama today announced his decision on future US force levels in Afghanistan. Assuming that the winner of the Afghan presidential election will i...
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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...
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Raha Wala of Human Rights First writes in with some reactions to my posts last week on the AUMF hearings, to which I respond briefly at the end.
Jack’s posts on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SF...
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I find myself mostly agreeing with the essentials of Harold Koh’s testimony and post on "ending" the Forever War, especially his proposal for a new and narrowed AUMF. I hope this doesn’t cause my old te...
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Wednesday’s AUMF hearing underscored a point that I develop at some length in my paper Postwar: repeal of the AUMF would not require, as a legal matter, that the government forgo the use of lethal force ...
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A friend who is familiar with Obama administration thinking responds to my post on yesterday’s AUMF hearing:
The administration’s focus is not on ending the war, but on ensuring that future presidents do...
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There is much to say about today’s hearing on the AUMF, and I am sure my colleagues will weigh in with much more. But I have two quick reactions for now.
First, I suggest reading two recent Eli Lake ar...
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Over at the New York Times, Charlie Savage has a good story about civil libertarian irritation over the latest version of the "USA FREEDOM Act," H.R. 3361---which he has also posted.
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As Bobby noted earlier, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is holding a hearing entitled: "Authorization For Use Of Military Force After Iraq And Afghanistan."