The American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Law and National Security has released audio recordings of its recent conference in Washington. Here they all are:

Day 1 – Thursday, November 29, 2012

Conference Overview and Welcome
Harvey Rishikof
Laurel

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Ken and Ben have recently commented on the national security speeches of Obama Administration officials, including most recently the remarks of CIA General Counsel Stephen Preston.  As a former Bush Administration official who would like to encourage more bipartisanship on … Read more »

How should we understand CIA General Counsel Stephen Preston’s speech at Harvard Law School the other day? It is not, like earlier speeches by senior administration lawyers and counterterrorism officials, an effort to spell out the legal framework in which … Read more »

My old colleague Daniel Klaidman from days of yore at Legal Times writes in with a guest post on CIA General Counsel Stephen Preston’s speech at Harvard Law School. Klaidman, now of Newsweek and the Daily Beast is the … Read more »

Yesterday’s speech by CIA General Counsel Stephen Preston has generated criticism from Deborah Pearlstein, on Opinio Juris. I want to address a couple of the points she raises.

Deborah first addresses Preston’s comments relating to the domestic law authority of … Read more »

CIA General Counsel Stephen is giving the following remarks today at Harvard Law School:

Remarks of
The Honorable Stephen W. Preston
General Counsel
Central Intelligence Agency

Harvard Law School
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Tuesday, April 10, 2012

“CIA and the Rule of

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Congratulations to the Harvard National Security Journal for a fruitful conference yesterday on the covert action and the law.  It was an intensive seminar all day long on the domestic and international law issues surrounding all things covert, and special … Read more »