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On the Benefits of Transparency: Why So Long to Disclose Drone Memo?

Monday’s release of the previously secret July 2010 Justice Department memo laying out the legal case for killing US citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki, has sparked a wide range of reactions,…

Jun. 24, 2014 David Cole

Reflections on What the Drone Memo Does and Doesn’t Say

There is already a lot of commentary on the OLC drone memo, and likely more to come. Here, I just want to highlight three key issues that should be part of the mix: #1: Issues…

Jun. 24, 2014 Jennifer Daskal

The Constitutional Question the Drone Memo Didn’t—and Couldn’t—Answer

Yesterday’s release of the Office of Legal Counsel’s “drone memo” (which, at some point, we should stop referring to in the singular) has provoked an understandable…

Jun. 24, 2014 Steve Vladeck

DOJ OLC Targeted Killing Memo Released

This morning the 2nd Circuit published a redacted version of the long-sought Department of Justice OLC memo that authorized the killing of U.S. citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki. We’ve…

Jun. 23, 2014 Thomas Earnest

Backgrounder for Release of OLC’s Targeted Killing Memo

As Jameel discussed in an important post—“The Drone Memo Cometh”—the Second Circuit appears poised to publish the Office of Legal Counsel’s memorandum on the targeted…

Jun. 23, 2014 Ryan Goodman

GTMO Transfer Bans Run Amok

A few weeks ago, I wrote about a disturbing provision that was added at the last minute to the Senate Armed Services Committee’s version of the National Defense Authorization…

Jun. 23, 2014 Jennifer Daskal

The Drone Memo Cometh

“Severe Clear,” a project by artist David Birkin. Skywriting appears over New York City in a celestial “Glomar” response. For more, see Birkin’s post here. In…

Jun. 21, 2014 Jameel Jaffer

The Trial of Ex-Blackwater: An Overview of the Competing Stories

Opening statements in the trial of the four Blackwater members alleged to have carried out the killings in Nisour Square, Baghdad, Iraq ended in Washington D.C. this week. On Tuesday…

Jun. 20, 2014 James G. Stewart

10 Years of Drone Strikes in Pakistan–but do you know whether it’s an “area of active hostilities”?

Today marks the ten-year anniversary of the first reported US drone strike in Pakistan (punctuated by another one today). Yet there is still official silence about a crucial…

Jun. 18, 2014 Ryan Goodman and Thomas Earnest

U.S. Captures Suspected Benghazi “Ringleader” Ahmed abu Khattalah

The breaking news this morning is that the U.S. Special Ops forces have captured Ahmed Abu Khattala, a suspected ringleader of the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya. Government…

Jun. 17, 2014 Thomas Earnest

A Second Chance for the Obama Administration on “Battlefield” Contractor Liability

One of the stranger briefs filed by the Office of the Solicitor General during the Obama Administration was the brief filed in response to the Supreme Court’s request (“CVSG”)…

Jun. 16, 2014 Steve Vladeck

Autonomous Weapons Debate: Three issues for further consideration

As recently reported by Sarah Knuckey and Bonnie Docherty, the “Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) Informal Meeting of Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems” was held…

Jun. 13, 2014 Ian Scott Henderson

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