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Intelligence Studies Essay

The Intelligence Studies Essay: "After you, Alphonse," or Why Two Different Intelligence Agencies Now Attend National Security Council Meetings, Whether It Matters, and How to Mitigate the Potential Hazards

Steve Slick   Thu, Jul 27, 2017, 10:37 AM

What impact will we see from President Trump's revised executive order requiring both the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the CIA to participate in National Security Council deliberations?

Presidential Policy Guidance

"Areas of Active Hostilities" and Authority to Authorize Attacks Without White House Involvement

Robert Chesney   Thu, May 18, 2017, 10:50 AM

A recent U.S. News article on “‘Areas of Active Hostilities’: Trump’s Troubling Increases to Obama’s Wars"  correctly identifies what could be a very important policy problem, but confuses the issue by focusing on the legal dimension.

Guantanamo

On the Latest Draft of the Trump Administration Guantanamo Detention Executive Order

Robert Chesney   Wed, Feb 8, 2017, 11:18 AM

The indispensable Charlie Savage has just posted the latest iteration of the Trump Administration’s planned Executive Order on detention issues, along with an article placing that draft in context (including helpful insights from Jack Goldsmith and Ryan Goodman).  

Podcast

Episode 2 of the National Security Law Podcast: Immigration Constraints, Ground Ops in Yemen...

Robert Chesney   Thu, Feb 2, 2017, 10:50 AM

Still no music, but Steve Vladeck and I have posted Episode 2 of our new National Security Law Podcast, “If You Thought That Last Executive Order Was Controversial…”

In it, we discuss President Trump’s new Executive Order on immigration, last weekend’s use of military force in Yemen, and . . . our predictions for the Super Bowl and President Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court (we recorded yesterday afternoon; Steve's predictions are better than mine, it turns out).

Annals of the Trump Administration

Annals of the Trump Administration #4: The Statute Needed for Gen. Mattis to be SecDef

Robert Chesney   Tue, Nov 22, 2016, 1:40 PM

Over at War on the Rocks, I have a post explaining that a new statute will be needed in order for General Mattis to serve as Secretary of Defense.  It's been done once before, with George Marshall during the Truman Administration.

Annals of the Trump Administration

Annals of the Trump Administration #3: Refusing to Add Waterboarding to the Field Manual?

Robert Chesney   Tue, Nov 22, 2016, 1:32 PM

In a prior post I discussed the Trump administration's apparent interest in reviving waterboarding as an interrogation method, noted that a federal statute forbids resort to any interrogation method not listed in the relevant Army Field Manual, and explained that the Trump administration might try to overcome that barrier by pushing to have the manual amended to include a classified annex authorizing waterboarding.

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