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Not to be outdone by Amnesty International, which responded earlier to my post on reports by Amenesty and Human Rights Watch, Letta Taylor of Human Rights Watch writes in with the following response as w...
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Here's the news, from The Daily Beast's Dan Klaidman:
The White House has settled on a former high-ranking Pentagon official to replace Janet Napolitano as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Secu...
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Mary DeRosa and Marty Lederman, both of whom were senior national security lawyers in the Obama administration, have a helpful if somewhat hopeful post at Just Security on the significance of the recent ...
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A few weeks ago the NYT had a piece by David Sanger about how the Snowden revelations will hurt if not kill the NSA’s ambitious plans for cybersecurity defense in the U.S. homeland. “Administration offi...
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Just as the great post-2008 wave of GTMO habeas litigation winds down, it appears to be time, at last, to revive the Periodic Review Board system at GTMO.
DOD breaks the news here (text reprinted below ...
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When it comes to detention and drone strikes, both critics and supporters of the status quo assume that abandoning the armed-conflict model would have not just diplomatic and legal effects but also a sig...
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Two pieces in the news worth noting on the issue of secrecy v. transparency in the U.S. intelligence world.
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James A.
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The morning’s second session picks up where the first left off: with Bin Attash attorney Cheryl Bormann, with her witness, Air Force Col. Karen Mayberry, the Chief Defense Counsel, and with a discussion ...
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The most puzzling line in the President’s strange speech last night was this:
[E]ven though I possess the authority to order military strikes, I believed it was right, in the absence of a direct or immin...
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Congratulations to John Carlin, who has been serving as the acting head of NSD since this past March. From the White House comes the formal announcement of his nomination:
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the ...
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Julian Ku is right to poke fun at the administration for conveying its vague and conclusory legal rationale for intervening in Syria through the reporting of the NYT’s Charlie Savage. But vague and conc...