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18 Mar 2016, 12:29 pm by Alex R. McQuade
Salah Abdeslam, the most wanted fugitive behind the Islamic State’s terrorist attacks in Paris last November, was arrested today after a shootout with police in Brussels. [read post]
28 Mar 2016, 1:07 pm by Alex R. McQuade
At least 72 people were killed, including many children, and hundreds more were injured in Lahore, Pakistan on Sunday when a suicide bomber attacked a park targeting Christians celebrating Easter. [read post]
16 Jan 2019, 11:09 am by Bob Bauer
Jack Goldsmith, among others, has identified how those who who flout norms in answering the president's own norm-busting chart a dangerous path from which there will be no simple or certain return. [read post]
4 Apr 2016, 9:30 am
The author of “Engines of Liberty” talks with the ACLU about the power of citizen activists to change the law. [read post]
14 Sep 2016, 11:44 am by Timothy Edgar
 As Jack Goldsmith observes wryly, “These are but some of the public services for which the U.S. government has Snowden to thank. [read post]
19 Nov 2018, 6:00 am by Nathaniel Sobel
American companies are getting hacked, and the Securities and Exchange Commission wants corporate executives to do something about it. [read post]
8 Mar 2016, 1:22 pm by Alex R. McQuade
Yesterday, the U.S. military announced that it had successfully targeted and killed over 150 al Shabaab militants in Somalia in a series of airstrikes against a training camp. [read post]
14 Feb 2018, 1:12 pm by Justin Florence, Allison Murphy
 As Jack Goldsmith detailed on Lawfare: The Executive branch, and most notably the Office of Legal Counsel, has through its legal opinions developed an elaborate set of constitutional justifications for unilateral presidential military action. [read post]
3 May 2016, 2:02 pm by Alex R. McQuade
A United States Navy SEAL was killed today after Islamic State militants broke through the front line of Kurdish peshmerga forces in northern Iraq. [read post]
17 Jan 2017, 9:14 am by Benjamin Wittes
Third, the question of whether Comey did, in fact, err back in July and in October is a very complicated one in my view, one that Jack Goldsmith and I treated in some depth at the time and on which I think criticism is warranted. [read post]
11 Jun 2018, 4:30 am by Quinta Jurecic
Whether or not the president can pardon himself is, as Jack Goldsmith recently noted, a question to which there is “no obvious right answer. [read post]
24 Jun 2019, 6:28 am by Scott R. Anderson
For the past two months, the Middle East has teetered on the edge of war. [read post]
16 Sep 2011, 7:52 pm by Kenneth Anderson
Jack Goldsmith notes (at Lawfare):Johnson appears to take the view that if the group falls under the AUMF (the domestic basis of authority), the President is legally authorized to target all its members in a country unwilling or unable to suppress them (which is the U.N. [read post]
14 Jan 2013, 2:29 pm by Kenneth Anderson
John Brennan, nominated by President Obama to become the next CIA director, will apparently face some tough questioning from Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) at his Senate confirmation hearings (reportedly set for Thursday, February 7, 2:30 pm). [read post]
27 Oct 2014, 10:46 am by Benjamin Bissell
While the US midterm elections are still a week away, democratic contests elsewhere in the world are ongoing or have just concluded. [read post]
26 Feb 2015, 7:00 am by Robert Chesney
Prepared Testimony of Robert Chesney Charles I. [read post]
9 Jan 2009, 6:04 am
Among the books which extensively detail the matters written of here are Jane Mayer's The Dark Side, Philippe Sands' The Torture Team, Jack Goldsmith's The Terror Presidency (Goldsmith is a former head of the Office of Legal Counsel), and Steven Wax's Kafka Comes To America. [read post]
27 May 2011, 11:16 am by Deborah Pearlstein
As I think I can safely say based on past discussions (not to mention recent posts), neither Bobby Chesney, nor Ben Wittes, nor Jack Goldsmith, nor Marty Lederman, nor I (all oft-times on opposing sides of these issues) think such a ban is a good idea. [read post]