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I have little to add to Jack's excellent post yesterday about Charlie Savage's fascinating New York Times story on the latest dispute within the administration on the scope and reach of the AUMF. But I d...
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Charlie Savage has a story about a dispute between DOD General Counsel Jeh Johnson and State Legal Advisor Harold Koh over the scope of the president’s legal authority to target members of al Qaeda-affil...
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As noted previously, I testified in late July before House Armed Services regarding detention policy, with a focus on the Warsame situation. I've seen received a handful of QFRs from committee members, ...
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That was the subject of a debate the other day put on by a group called Intelligence Squared--which was attended and summarized by Lawfare reader John Mattiace. Mattiace is an attorney practicing in New ...
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A federal court in Washington ruled on Thursday that former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe enjoys residual immunity from being forced to testify as a witness in an Alien Tort Statute/Torture Victims Pr...
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Bruce Ackerman has an interesting piece at Foreign Policy this week, arguing that the “congressional resolutions authorizing combat in Afghanistan and Iraq no longer justify military operations in either...
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In the Fall of 2002, a month or so after I started work in the Defense Department General Counsel’s office, I had a chat with Rear Admiral Michael Lohr, who at the time was the Judge Advocate General of ...
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The appellant and appellee briefs for Alsabri v. Obama, a Guantanamo habeas case in the D.C. Circuit, are now available. You can read Ben's thoughts on the District Court's decision here and Bobby's thou...
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On August 30, the Eleventh Circuit decisively dismissed a classic lawfare lawsuit -- an Alien Tort Statute suit brought against the former President and former Defense Minister of Bolivia (Gonzalo Sanche...
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Another Mark Mazzetti story from the past week that deserves your attention: this piece, which sheds some additional light on the intelligence and logistical support that the United States is providing t...
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Mark Mazzetti had a piece yesterday in the Times covering the important news that CIA once again has located and killed al Qaeda's top officer for operational planning (Atiyah abd al-Rahman, who took ove...
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Matt Dahl is a 2009 graduate of the University of Richmond School of Law who works on legal and policy issues for a cybersecurity company in Virginia. We are pleased to welcome his guest post, which dis...