Congressional Oversight

A guide to the humanitarian law conditions on U.S. arms sales and security assistance to Israel.

The HFAC hearing clarified the shallowness of the Biden administration’s conception of AUMF reform, divisions between the political branches and within the House, and the risks…

Emerging from the first of a planned series of listening sessions on AI on September 13, Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer reported that, during the closed-door meeting, every…

Congress should seek to determine how the executive branch interprets and relies on the 2001 AUMF and where the administration stands on proposed reforms that have been widely…

The SAFEGUARD Act provides a pathway for Congress to push for accountability for the violence linked to U.S. arms sales.

The executive branch, through noncompliance and defiance, has delayed providing Congress with sufficient information on the war on terror.

Will there be real oversight or more allegations of conspiracies and victimhood that drive political violence?

Must the president follow any specific procedures when declassifying government information? The answer is a resounding no.

As Congress works to reassert its authority over United States war making, it should improve its infrastructure and policies for handling sensitive information.

There was a time when the US didn't promote human rights or even consider it much of an objective in foreign policy at all.

An ambassador responds to a colleague: release, with appropriate redaction, would support, not inhibit, State Department accountability.

Forcing release of such material would chill candor, intimidate potential dissenters from speaking up, and inject an element of gamesmanship.