Winning an unconventional war
War is – and always will be -- hell. The Law of Armed Conflict is not meant to change that – only to make it a little less hellish. There are weapons you agree not to use. In exchange...
John Ashcroft
A Nasty Piece of Work
A tawdry new book accuses the late Christopher Hitchens of plagiarism—and worse.
Op-eds
The Times Swings Its Hatchet at Bush…and Hits Mukasey
Even by low Gray Lady standards, a journalistic abomination.
Op-eds
Why The al-Qaeda Seven Matter
My flight had been delayed, so I arrived late to a 2004 academic conference, a law school gab-fest exploring legal issues in the War on Terror. The professor giving the keynote address was well i...
Op-eds
The Al Capone Model of Anti-Terror Policing
AL CAPONE HAD BECOME a celebrity criminal by 1931. Everybody knew what he was up to: his litany of offenses included murder, bribery, and running illegal breweries. But the government would have...
Op-eds
Trial in Error
Could someone please explain to me why Scooter Libby is the only person on trial in the Valerie Plame leak investigation? Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald charged Vice President Che...
Op-eds
Reflections of an Attorney General
The United States Department of Justice is like a battleship of enormous size and storied traditions, patrolling familiar seas under time-honored rules of engagement. Modern Islamic radicalism, a...
Op-eds
Sentencing Day Arrives for Lynne Stewart
The radical attorney Lynne Stewart is scheduled to be sentenced in Manhattan today on her 2005 conviction, after a lengthy trial, for providing material support to terrorism. As pr...
Op-eds
The Culture of Obstruction
Imagine for a moment a public official of the highest order. He was a confidant of the vice president and the president. Entrusted with the most sensitive national defense information, he enjoyed...
Op-eds
The Intelligence Mess
(Editor's note: This article first appeared in April 2004.) Intelligence-gathering is something of a square peg in the round hole of contemporary political morality. It is about unearthing t...
Op-eds
Hamas More Don’t We Know?
Is the UAE guilty of providing material support to terrorism since 9/11?
Op-eds
Times Change
Remember when scholars thought presidents were "above the law"?
Op-eds
FISA Gotcha!
For the frivolous, war is scandal fodder any which way you choose.
Op-eds
Material Support to… “Business Professionals”
The Bush administration has some explaining to do on Hamas.
Op-eds
Judge Not
An Ignorant Analysis of the Lynne Stewart Case
Op-eds
G-Men’s Guilt
Review of Broken: The Troubled Past and Uncertain Future of the FBI
Op-eds
Symposium: Iraq: Fight or Flight?
Co-authored by: Jamie Glaznov, Greg Bates, David Lindorff and Jed Babbin. Where are we headed in Iraq? Is it crucial to stay and fight for victory, or, as some liberal-left crit...
Op-eds
Shoe Bomber 2.0; The Justice Department Indicts Richard Reid’s Accomplice
John Ashcroft reminded Americans Monday of how effective the government's post-9/11 effort to thwart Islamic militancy has been, announcing the indictment of a second conspirator in the most...
Op-eds
Beware of the Terrorist Moles
Last week's dire warning from Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller was deadly clear: Al Qaeda is alive and well and planning a large-scale attack in the U.S. and/or...
Op-eds
Red Tape Threatens to Cage Military Might
Co-Authored by Robert Andrews One lesson emerging from this week's 9/11 commission hearings is that confusion and lack of clarity can be disastrous in fighting terrorism. D...