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Drone strikes in Southern Yemen killed nine members of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) on Friday, including Ibrahim al-Bana, the terrorist organization's media chief, and, according to tribal el...
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That is the headline from ABC News. The War Powers Resolution notification to Congress states in part:
I have authorized a small number of combat-equipped U.S. forces to deploy to central Africa to prov...
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Jack highlighted a Wired story last week about a computer virus infecting the Air Force's drone fleet, including the virtual "cockpits" at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada.
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The first thing to say about today's long-belated New York Times editorial on the Al-Aulaqi killing--and the memo justifying it--is that it is not a ridiculous document, and I'm not going to ridicule it....
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Better late that never, the New York Times has finally run an editorial on the Al Aulaqi strike.
This makes it impossible to accept new entries in the Write the New York Times Al-Aulaqi Editorial Compet...
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This is a pretty remarkable development. Authorities have arrested a dual US-Iranian citizen on charges that he conspired with a senior official of Iran's Qods Force (of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionar...
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Jacob Sternberger, a political science and security studies major at Dickinson College, has the distinction of sending in the first entry in Lawfare's Write the New York Times Al-Aulaqi Editorial Competi...
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Reading the blogs today, you might think Marty Lederman and David Barron had gotten deeply in touch with their inner John Yoo when they wrote the Al-Aulaqi memo. Spencer Ackerman, to cite a typical examp...
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Next Tuesday, October 18, at The Heritage Foundation:
[T]he House and Senate have proposed additional detainee-related legislation in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2012. Both have pro...
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Columbia law professor Philip Bobbitt, author of Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century, writes in with the following comments in response to my comments on the Charlie Savage story:
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A second Sunday paper has come and gone since the Anwar Al-Aulaqi strike, and still no New York Times editorial about it. I guess the killing of two U.S.
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I was planning to write a piece this morning pointing out that Charlie Savage's story--to which I linked last night and which describes in some detail the legal rationale in the OLC opinion authorizing t...