Anthony Clark Arend

My wife Tracy and I are excited to be in San Francisco again! Tomorrow night I will be giving a talk for the Georgetown University Alumni Club of Northern California entitled “Terrorists: Criminals or Combatants?” I will post comments about the evening.

As numerous posts have noted, Erin Conaton’s nomination to be Under Secretary of the Air Force had been “on hold” for some time. Yesterday, the Senate finally confirmed her. The Air Force Times reports:
The Air Force has a No. 2 civilian leader for the first time since August 2007.
The Senate confirmed Erin Conaton as undersecretary of the Air Force on …

The Huffington Post is reporting today:
In a potential reversal, White House advisers are close to recommending that President Barack Obama opt for military tribunals for self-professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four of his alleged henchman, senior officials said.The review of where and how to hold a Sept. 11 trial is not over, so no recommendation is yet …

An editorial in Saturday’s Los Angeles Times notes:
When most Americans hear that it’s illegal to supply “material support” to foreign terrorist groups, they probably assume that the prohibition involves financial or technical support — sending money to pay for hijackers’ air fares or providing wiring for a bomb (or advice about how to use it).
In fact, the law also seems …

Georgetown University has just announced that Michael Hayden has been brought on as a senior advisor to work on cybersecurity issues. Rob Mathis of Georgetown’s Office of Communication writes:
Gen. Michael Hayden, former director of the National Security Agency has joined Georgetown University as a senior advisor to its new project that integrates law, policy and technology to tackle the issue …

In case you missed this– Charlie Wilson, the colorful congressman from Texas, passed away yesterday. The New York Times reports:
Charlie Wilson, a 12-term Texas congressman who was best known for his playboy ways until he masterminded a covert effort to funnel billions of dollars in arms to Afghan rebels fighting the Soviets in the 1980s, died Wednesday in Lufkin, Tex. …

My friend and Georgetown University colleague, Matthew Kroenig has a provocative piece in the New Republic. He writes:
As President Obama begins a push to impose harsher economic sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, his success will be determined largely by the answer to a single question: Will China and Russia get on board? In order to bite, sanctions must …

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