* David Kris as AAG for the National Security Division?
The Legal Times Blog reports that David Kris may soon be nominated to run the National Security Division at DOJ. I forward Orin Kerr’s comments on the pick below, where you also will find a link to the original LTB story and a link to David’s indispensible treatise on the law of national security investigations and prosecutions. I agree with Orin; this is very good news indeed.
David Kris To Be Nominated to Head National Security Division of DOJ:
According to the Legal Times Blog, President-Elect Obama is planning to nominate David Kris as the head of the Justice Department’s National Security Division. If that’s true, it’s terrific news. Kris is a lawyer’s lawyer and one of the world’s foremost subject-matter experts in national security law. He literally wrote the book, or at least co-wrote it: His treatise, National Security Investigations and Prosecutions, is an extremely impressive work. Plus, Kris has a great deal of practical experience in the area: He was the Associate Deputy Attorney General from 2000 to 2003, where he supervised the government’s implementation of FISA and represented DOJ at the National Security Council. If someone asked me who I thought should head the DOJ’s National Security Division, I would probably have named David Kris. Bravo to President-Elect Obama for such an inspired pick.
By Robert M. Chesney
Robert M. Chesney is Charles I. Francis Professor in Law at UT-Austin School of Law. Chesney is a national security law specialist, with a particular interest in problems associated with terrorism. Professor Chesney recently served in the Justice Department in connection with the Detainee Policy Task Force created by Executive Order 13493. He is a member of the Advisory Committee of the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Law and National Security, a senior editor for the Journal of National Security Law & Policy, an associate member of the Intelligence Science Board, a non-resident senior fellow of the Brookings Institution, a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the American Law Institute. Professor Chesney has published extensively on topics ranging from detention and prosecution in the counterterrorism context to the states secrets privilege. He served previously as chair of the Section on National Security Law of the Association of American Law Schools and as editor of the National Security Law Report (published by the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Law and National Security). His upcoming projects include two books under contract with Oxford University Press, one concerning the evolution of detention law and policy and the other examining the judicial role in national security affairs.
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