In September, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals began hearing oral arguments for United States v. Hasan, the case of five Somali men who...

At a media roundtable in Miami on November 8, 2011, William Brownfield, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of International...

As the days leading up to the Republican nomination in the 2012 presidential election begin to dwindle, the number of Republican debates...

Written by Zsofia Young, American University National Security Law Brief, with editorial assistance from Aileen Thomson. Muammar Qaddafi...

One of the primary goals of the Obama administration’s new immigration reform policy is to increase the number of “high priority”...

In 2005 Democratic Congressman John Salazar pushed the Stolen Valor Act easily through a bipartisan Congress.  Clay Calvert and Rebekah...

Israel has been implementing both a naval and land blockade on the Gaza Strip for a number of years. The naval blockade first began in...

President Obama has announced that by the end of 2011 every U.S. troop will leave Iraq, ending the eight years of American occupation....

Is the Government Lying? A Look at the FOIA and Protections of National Security Documents The Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) was...

The American Bar Association, Standing Committee on the National Security & the Law will hold the 21st annual review of the field of...

Although the current laws of war can account for drones, technology may quickly outpace the law. Unmanned military technology — of which...

Adam Entous, Siobhan Gorman, and Julian Barnes of the Wall Street Journal’s national security reporting team have a front page article...

On October 14, 2011, President Obama sent a letter to Congress regarding the deployment of U.S. troops to central Africa to hunt down...

On October 14, 2011, President Obama sent a letter to Congress regarding the deployment of U.S. troops to central Africa to hunt down...

Umar Farouk Adbdulmutallab, the “Underwear Bomber”, plead guilty to eight counts related to an attempt to blow up a jetliner on Christmas...

Attorney General Eric Holder announced today that the U.S. foiled a plot by factions supported by the Iranian regime to kill the Saudi...

By Kenneth Anderson Jack Goldsmith and Benjamin Wittes have been arguing for several days now at the Lawfare blog that the Obama...

Reports that U.S. born cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki, has been killed in Yemen are surfacing this morning. Al-Awlaki, credited with influencing...

The American Bar Association Standing Committee on Law & National Security is holding a breakfast on Friday, October 14 from 8:00 am to...

As the Palestinians seek U.N. support for a state of their own, Washington has advanced two arguments to dissuade them: first, that...