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FBI Director Robert S.
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Senator Mark Udall of Colorado is pushing an amendment to the NDAA to strip the bill of its detainee-affairs provisions and require further study of the relevant issues from both the executive branch and...
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I missed this before Thanksgiving, I'm afraid, but fortunately, the invaluable Josh Gerstein did not:
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper is joining the chorus of Obama administration voices ...
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I have one thought to add to Bobby's observations yesterday about the legal implications of finishing off the Al Qaeda core in Pakistan. House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon has taken a be...
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Greg Miller of the Washington Post has an important story this morning addressing the possibility that the original al Qaeda network is but a drone strike or two away from eradication:
The leadership ran...
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The Republican presidential candidates debated national security and foreign policy issues last night in Washington. Ritika teed up the debate here with links to the Post’s preview of issues to watch and...
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Having now returned from my undisclosed location, here's a transcript of the Senate floor debate on the NDAA.
The Senate debated the bill on Thursday and Friday. This transcript, helpfully includes only...
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Daphne Eviatar of Human Rights First writes in with the following comments on Latif and the detention provisions of the NDAA:
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Finally, the administration has spoken clearly, directly, and with direct references to consequences--a veto--about the detainee provisions of the NDAA. The White House's Statement of Administration Poli...
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Well, apropos of my prior post, the White House has in fact now issued a veto threat in relation to the detainee provisions in the NDAA. The full text of the SAP is here, and the detainee-relevant langu...
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I was just reading a piece by Adam Serwer (Mother Jones) regarding the NDAA detainee provisions, and came across this pithy line from Ben:
"If Congress is going to take the president seriously, it has to...
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The Senate's new NDAA language changes almost nothing. Yes, there are some technical adjustments, which Bobby has described in detail, and some of these may serve to lessen slightly the irrational burden...