National Security Law, Lawyers, and Lawyering in the Obama Administration

Abstract

Thank you for this invitation, and thank you, in particular, Professor Hathaway, for your work in the national security legal field. Since we first met last fall, I have appreciated your scholarship and our growing friendship. I was pleased to welcome you to the Pentagon in December to introduce you to a number of my civilian and military colleagues there. I would like to count on you as someone with whom I can consult from time to time on the very difficult legal issues we wrestle with in national security.