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June 12, 2013 | Advancing a Free Society
April 9, 2013 | Hoover Institution
February 25, 2013 | Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)
January 28, 2013 | Advancing a Free Society
October 25, 2012 | Global Public Square (CNN.com)
June 2, 2011 | Foreign Policy
Six reasons why it's been so tough to get Qaddafi to quit...
January 21, 2009 | Foreign Policy
Today, U.S. President Barack Obama suspended military commissions at the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba...
October 28, 2007 | Washington Post
In July 2005, I joined a group of senior policymakers at the White House for a review of administration policies on the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Blogs
June 1, 2012 | Lawfare
Let me add to the comments so far on David Sanger’s extensive report in today’s NYT about U.S.-Israeli cyber-attacks against Iran’s nuclear program...
May 31, 2012 | Lawfare
In all the last two days’ coverage of the Obama administration’s targeting program...there’s a remarkable lack of discussion of Congress. It’s remarkable for several reasons...
May 15, 2012 | Lawfare
Several people have asked: “The EU has a navy?” The background here is legally, operationally, and diplomatically interesting...
April 27, 2012 | Lawfare
I’d draw readers’ attention to Jack’s Washington Post op-ed, in which he discusses how candidate Romney might to try to differentiate himself from President Obama on counterterrorism policy...
April 26, 2012 | Lawfare
Lethal autonomous weapons systems – the “robot soldiers” of our title – are going to come to the battlefield, sooner or later. So we should be asking now how they can and should be regulated within the law of armed conflict...
March 5, 2012 | Global Public Square (CNN.com)
Holder’s remarks are unlikely to satisfy either the most vocal civil libertarians or security-hawks, but they reflect this administration’s pragmatic approach toward national security law issues...
October 27, 2011 | Global Public Square (CNN.com)
For the foreseeable future, progress toward [a vision of cyber security and freedom] will be incremental and achieved through multiple arrangements hammered out with a wide array of state and private actors rather than through a global accord...
March 9, 2010 | New York Times
Efforts that are purportedly about transparency of government service and adherence to conflict-of-interest policies are, unfortunately, being used to paint detainee lawyers as disloyal to the country. . . .
Interviews
June 15, 2011 | American Morning (CNN)
Does the United States' military involvement in Libya violate the War Powers Resolution...
December 1, 2012 | Policy Review
May 4, 2012 | Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)
Why are the principles of federalism absent from national security policy?...
December 5, 2011 | Council on Foreign Relations
The National Defense Authorization Act, facing intensifying debate this week on Capitol Hill, contains complex and controversial detainee provisions...
April 1, 2011 | Yale Journal of International Law
Suppose that the United States, in opposing Iran's suspected development of nuclear weapons, decides that the best way to halt or slow Iran's program is to undermine the Iranian banking system...
March 28, 2011 | Council on Foreign Relations
With the UN Security Council-authorized military strikes on Libya in full swing, legal debate in the United States is focused on whether, as a matter of U.S. constitutional law, the president may unilaterally order U.S. forces to participate in those operations without going to Congress for permission...
June 10, 2010 | Future Challenges in National Security and Law
In the new online volume, Future Challenges in National Security and Law, members of the Hoover Institution’s Koret-Taube Task Force on National Security and Law and guest contributors offer incisive commentary on the controversies that have erupted over national security law in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, laying the foundations for understanding such future issues...
