Give anti-globalism a chance
“Globalism” is one of those Humpty Dumpty words that seems to mean whatever those using it “choose it to mean – neither more nor less.”...
John Yoo
The ‘Targeted-Killing’ Memos
Why shouldn’t the public get to read them?
Op-eds
Obama Administration to Congress: You’re Irrelevant
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta gave testimony in the Senate yesterday that was just breathtaking: asserting that the Obama administration believes it c...
Op-eds
The President, the Constitution, and National Security
A response to Lindsey Graham
Op-eds
Et Tu, Yoo?
I’m disheartened to find my friend John Yoo lending his voice to the bogus claim that opposition to U.S. intervention in Libya’s civil war makes one an “isolationist.” And...
Op-eds
‘Here’s to al-Qaeda’
Nearly 20 years ago, I asked the late William Kunstler about his philosophy of lawyering. A flamboyant leftist who proudly represented jihadists just as he proudly represented many other anti-Ame...
Op-eds
Killing and Grilling
Every now and again, publicly or privately, people are nice enough to thank me for putting the “Blind Sheikh” behind bars. It is presumptuous to accept such accolades, since the...
Op-eds
Not Unlawful, Not an Enemy Combatant
Is there a limit to the damage this government is willing to do to American credibility and security in its sudden haste to rid the world of Moammar Qaddafi — known until recently as a valu...
Op-eds
Another National-Security Flip-Flop
No sooner did Victor Davis Hanson compile a prodigious list of national-security flip-flops by the Obama Left (posted on the Corner under the title “If We Say It Is, It Is . . . ”) th...
Op-eds
Corker’s Case for START: As Convincing as ‘A Letter from My Mother’
Patting himself and his fellow Senate Republicans on the back for selling o...
Op-eds
Advise, Don’t Consent
President Obama is writing to the wrong people, and those wrong people are hopelessly confused about his power and their own. This is how bad agreements are born. Senate Republicans coul...
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
Saying No to Justice
I did something today that I’ve never done before. The Department of Justice, which I proudly served for a quarter century as an assistant U.S. attorney and a deputy U.S. marshal, asked me...
Op-eds
What Was the CIA Up To?
This is a delicate business involving some unpleasantness; it must be entrusted to the hands and tongues and pens of men who are completely above suspicion and without self-interest, for the weal...
Op-eds
Checked and Unbalanced
George Will's diatribe against the NSA program is meritless.