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C-SPAN's Washington Journal had two lengthy segments on the AUMF controversy this morning.
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Last week Amy Zegart noted the rapid rise of cyber in the DNI Annual Threat Assessment. As she observed,
Cyber is listed as threat number 1 but it's only been number 1 since 2012, suggesting just how fas...
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On Thursday of this week, Lawfare’s Benjamin Wittes and Bobby Chesney, along with General Jack Keane, appeared before the House Armed Services Committee to provide “Outside Perspectives on the President’...
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Even casual readers of this blog are likely aware of the longstanding (and thoroughly joined) debate between Ben and me with respect to how Congress ought to update / revisit the 2001 Authorization for t...
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Prepared Testimony of Robert Chesney
Charles I. Francis Professor in Law
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Director, Strauss Center for International Security & Law
The University of Texas at Austin
Be...
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At 10 am, Lawfare's Benjamin Wittes and Bobby Chesney, along with General Jack Keane, will provide testimony before the House Armed Services Committee today regarding the Obama administration's proposed ...
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Last night, Laura Poitras’s Citizenfour received an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, a win I have been anticipating since Glenn Greenwald won the Pulitzer Prize back in April for breaking the ...
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It is a common perception that Americans care less about privacy than Europeans, especially after the attacks of September 11, and the Snowden revelations only seemed to reinforce that perception. Last w...
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[Cross-posted at Just Security]
With congressional hearings on the Obama Administration’s proposed Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) for the Islamic State on the horizon, we propose six...
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Last Friday, as part of the Cybersecurity summit at Stanford, President Obama announced a new information sharing initiative, and issued an Executive Order that was tied to the initiative. The EO will, ...
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The New York Times thinks President Obama's draft AUMF is dangerously broad:
The parameters of a proposed war authorization the White House sent to
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Jack ends his excellent and comprehensive post this morning, a post which I will not try to summarize, with the following statement:
I just don’t get the calculation. It seems that the President could h...