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Today, Hachette is publishing the paperback edition of my history of Obama-era national-security legal policymaking, Power Wars, which is also replacing the text future e-book buyers will receive. I have systematically updated and revised the book since its hardcover publication in November 2015.
A few months ago, over coffee in Cambridge, Jack Goldsmith generously proposed that when this edition came out I should write something for Lawfare explaining what is different about it. So below I will briefly explain its navigational, cosmetic, and substantive improvements, including its new Trump-focused preface .
The TLDR takeaway is that this is a much-refined director’s cut, and going forward it should stand as the definitive edition of Power Wars.
NAVIGATIONAL
Some scholars, journalists, and national-security lawyers have been using Power Wars as a reference. Two structural enhancements to the paperback should make it more useful for this purpose. First, its table of contents now incorporates the 20 or so subchapter headings from each chapter, making it easier to jump around in. Second, the paperback includes a printed index. The hardcover has an index, too, but it only exists online, which is cumbersome – and some people do not realize it is there.
COSMETIC
Hachette has added a picture of the White House to the cover, and where the hardcover is subtitled “Inside Obama’s Post-9/11 Presidency,” the paperback has a less time-pegged subtitle: “The Relentless Rise of Presidential Authority and Secrecy.” Between the covers, I massaged and smoothed out the writing in numerous small ways after re-reading it from a distance and discovering flaws, like referring to people only by their last names even though they had not been mentioned for many pages.
SUBSTANTIVE
The main text is also salted with improvements based on more or better information that became available after the hardcover went to print. (In order to preserve the existing index, these additions required tightening the text on the same pages.) Among the categories of such revisions:
Stories have endings: The hardcover leaves off with events as they stood in the summer of 2015. For example, Guantanamo has 116 detainees and it’s not yet clear whether Obama will succeed or fail in closing the prison; at Fort Leavenworth, Chelsea Manning is staring down 30 more years of hard time; and the F.B.I. is refusing to make public its contemporaneous “302” reports showing what the underwear bomber told interrogators about Anwar al-Awlaki in January 2010. The paperback, revised in the spring of 2017, completes such narratives with events through the final 18 months of Obama’s presidency and a bit beyond.
Accounts are more complete: After the hardcover text closed, the government declassified more information about some of the episodes it recounts, and participants in the behind-the-scenes meetings and conversations it describes read the book and told me additional details. For example, in response to one of my Freedom of Information Act lawsuits, the government disclosed a third legal problem the Justice Department had identified in the spring of 2004 about the Stellarwind surveillance and bulk data collection program, meaning the hardcover’s account of the “hospital room” crisis, which describes only two – one the public already knew about, and one that Power Wars first reported – is missing something important. The paperback is enriched with such subsequently available information.
Errors are corrected, nuances adjusted: Inevitably, there were places where I came to believe that I had missed the mark in the hardcover, so the paperback fixes those problems. For example, when the four lawyers working on the hypersecret planning for the Osama bin Laden raid cleared the way for Obama to order it as an explicit kill mission, subject to a requirement that the SEAL Team Six operators accept any surrender offer if feasible, it was not those lawyers who construed feasibility so narrowly that the administration did not bother to come up with a real disposition plan in case bin Laden survived and was taken prisoner. Rather, that narrow construction came from existing military rules of engagement for Special Operations Forces raids on potentially booby-trapped terrorist compounds.
THE NEW PREFACE
There is a now-glaring omission in the hardcover edition: while most of the serious G.O.P. contenders for the 2016 nomination make cameo appearances, Donald Trump’s name does not appear in it. That is because in 2014 and early 2015, when I wrote the book, Trump looked like a novelty candidate and it was beyond my imagination that he would succeed Obama as commander-in-chief. The paperback edition opens with a new 3,000-word preface that frames the book’s account of Obama-era national-security policymaking in terms of what came next. It recounts what Trump said and did about national-security legal policy issues both during the campaign and the chaotic first months of his administration, while analyzing differing views about how to assess the Obama administration’s record in hindsight, drawing on post-election interviews I conducted with Obama legal team veterans like Greg Craig, Avril Haines, and Marty Lederman, and critics like Anthony Romero of the A.C.L.U.. Here is a taste:
…It is the story of how and why Obama, a liberal constitutional law teacher who was widely expected to roll back George W. Bush’s war on terror, ended up instead merely adjusting it — and in the process curated an immense arsenal of presidential powers and legal precedents that he then found himself handing off to Trump. And it is the story of Obama’s team — a group of national security legal policy specialists who believed that they were looking around corners to take into account future risks and put into place safeguards against them but did not anticipate that Trump and his team would inherit their handiwork. …
With no prior government experience, Trump surrounded himself with advisers who appeared ready to open the throttle on hard-power approaches to fighting terrorism, including accepting greater risk of civil-liberties violations at home and civilian casualties abroad. As a result, Trump’s rise created a new and unexpected vantage point from which to understand the legacy of Obama’s post-9/11 presidency. … The results of the 2016 election significantly raised the stakes of what happened on Obama’s watch — and the need to understand it.
In sum, there are enough improvements that if you make ongoing use of Power Wars, you may wish to acquire a paperback version. Certainly, if you already own it in e-book format, there is every reason to delete it from your device and then re-download the latest version. If you are a professor considering assigning excerpts to your students – thank you! – you may wish to ask them to get the paperback specifically. 

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Even though it feels like its been well over a century since Donald Trump took the oath of office and officially became the president of the United States, weve only just reached the end of his first 100 days.

In approximately three months, Trump has managed to begin the construction of a border wall between the US and Mexico, issue an executive order that temporarily banned citizens of seven Muslim nationsfrom entering our country and helaunched the first ever direct attack against the Syrian government.

Hes done plenty more than that since entering the White House back in January, but my post-election anxiety is starting to flare upagain, so we can just stop there for now.

If youre feeling like the country is going to absolute shit, theres still a glimmer of hope.

The resistance against Trump has been tireless in reminding us that he and his administration are not normal, and thatits more important than ever to stand up for your rights.

And whos leading that resistance?

GIRLS.

Here are 100 amazing women who have stood up to President Trump during his first 100 days in office.

1. Lauren Duca

Her Teen Vogue op-ed rightfully tore Trump to shreds for gaslighting America.


2. Barbara Lee

As a US Representative for Californias 13th congressional district, Lee is one of many elected officialswho boycotted Trumps inauguration.

Shes also made it a point to call attention to Trumps hateful rhetoric and his divisiveness.


3. Sally Yates

The former Attorney General who was fired by Trump after she refused to enforce his travel ban.

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4. NydiaVelzquez

Velzquez is a Puerto Rican Congresswoman, who swiftly made her way to John F. Kennedy International Airport to help travelers affected by the travel ban.


5. Cecile Richards

The president of Planned Parenthood said, If women are assessing the first 100 days of this president, its been a big zero.


6. Melanie Watson

A woman who considered herself a lifelong Republican, but has since said she cant stay in a party that didnt stand up to Trump, and thats willing to support him as president.


7. Elizabeth Warren

Lets be real; the list wouldnt be complete without her. Shes both relentless and fearless in her resistance against Trump.

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8. Desiree Kane

Shes a badass Native American activistwho has dedicated her time to protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline.


9. Leslie Knope

Yeah, whatever, she may be a fictional character, but her letter to America after Trump won the election was absolute gold.


10. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto

I will be one hell of a check and balance on him.


11. Representative Linda Snchez (CA-38)

When Trump issued an executive order rolling back the Clean Power Plan, she fired back, Today is another example of how President Donald Trumps policies are not helping Americas working families.


12. Representative Judy Chu (CA-27)

She may have boycotted Trumps inauguration, but when she attended his address to both houses of Congress,she brought alongan Iranian student affected by the travel ban.


13. Chelsea Handler

Who could forget this hilarious picture?


14. Tamika Mallory

A national co-chair of the Womens March on Washington.


15. Alicia Garza

A co-founder of Black Lives Matterwho has said Donald Trump is not about law and order.


16. Bonnie Watson Coleman

The Congresswoman called thetravel ban an illustration of how unfit Trump is.


17. Kamala Harris

In her newly elected role as a junior US senator from California, Harris hasvowed to protect immigrants, both legal and illegal, on all fronts in the era of Trump.


18. Megyn Kelly

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Even though she used to work for Fox News, Kelly has since called attention to Trumps attempts to bribe journalists into publishingfavorable coverage of him.


19. Rosie ODonnell

This woman will troll Trump until the day he dies.


20. Teresa Shook

The Hawaiian grandmotherwho started the Womens March with a simple Facebook event.


21. Gloria Steinem

Yall know this queen. Shes always been a force to be reckoned with, but since Trump took office, shes made it her mission to resist everything he stands for.


22. Phoebe Pearl

The beautiful Rockette who made sure everyone knew she was completely and utterly embarrassed to perform at Trumps inauguration.


23. Tricia Kelly

The freelance hairstylist stood her ground and refused toprovide her services to the Trump women for the inauguration.


24. Rebecca Ferguson

She was asked to sing at Trumps inauguration, but said shed only do so if she could sing a song called Strange Fruit, which is a protest song about the lynchings of African Americans.


25. Letitia James

Shes a New York City Public Advocate who recentlyunveiled a plan to block business and pension dollars for companies that would help Trumps construction of the wall.


26. US Representative Maxine Waters

The California Democrat has been anything but silent in calling for Trumps impeachment.


27. Senator Patty Murray

President Trump should work with us to focus on actually keeping our families safe, not on dangerous, divisive, and hateful actions that betray our American values.


28. Meryl Streep

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We bowed down to this queen when she called out Trump at the Golden Globes.


29. Paulina Helm-Hernandez

The queer femme artist and co-director of the queer liberation group Southerners on New Ground has been a strong advocate for sanctuary cities threatened by Trump.


30. Sophie Theallet

She called for a fashion boycott of Melania Trump.


31. Christine Ahn

Ahn is a peace activist and organizer for WomenCrossDMZ, who has called for Trump to de-escalate tensions with North Korea.


32. Emily Gallagher

Shes the co-organizer of the Williamsburg chapter of Solidarity Sundays, which is an activist meet-up program that aims to resist the president.


33. Ryan Kuonen

Kunoen joins Gallagher as another co-organizer of Solidarity Sundays.


34. Carmen Perez

A national co-chair of the Womens March on Washington.


35. Janet Mock

Mock has been a leader in the transgender community for a while now, but shes recently focused her efforts on helping transgender kids navigate the Trump era.


36. Jennifer Holliday

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The Dreamgirls star backed out of a scheduled performance at Trumps inauguration. Yaaas, queen!


37. Linda Sarsour

A Brooklyn-born Palestinian-American-Muslim racial justice and civil rights activist who also serves as the national co-chair of the Womens March on Washington.


38. Mirriam Seddiq

An attorney who helpedincoming travelersat Dulles airport who were affected by Trumps travel ban.


39. Ann Donnelly

The first federal judge to officially block Trumps travel ban.


40. Leonie Brinkema

A federal judge who blocked Virginias enforcement of the travel ban.


41. Allison Burroughs

Another fearless federal judge who wasnt afraid to block the executive order banning citizens of seven Muslim nations from entering our country.


42. Judith Dein

Yet another federal judge who stood up against the hateful executive order. As you can clearly see, female judges beat their male counterparts to the punch on this front.


43. Patrisse Cullors

As a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Global Network, Cullors is doing everything in her power to mobilize the BLM movement against Trump.


44. Kirsten Gillibrand

TheUS Senator has made her opposition clear by voting against nearlyevery single one of the presidents Cabinet picks.


45. America Ferrera

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The actress delivered an incredible speech at the Womens March on Washington, in which she passionately rejected Trumps hateful agendas.


46. Assemblywoman Sheila Oliver (D-Essex)

Oliver is part of the newly formedWomen Against Sexual Harassment coalition, and continues to resist this continuing saga involving Trump and his attacks on and against women is extremely troubling.


47. Winnie Wong

The co-founder and Internet MOM of #FeelTheBern (People For Bernie) has repeatedly called attention to Trumps lies to the American public.


48. Kozue Akibayashi

The International President of Womens International League for Peace and Freedom has calledfor peace on the Korean peninsula in the wake up of Trumps threats of nuclear war.


49. Rihanna

She called Trump an immoral pig after he issued the executive orderenforcing the travel ban. She also showed up to protestat New York Citys womens march.


50. Leslie Dotson Van Every

The California activist was one of the many women behind Solidarity Sundays.


51. Kate Schatz

Another female brainchild behind Solidarity Sundays.


52. Jennye Garibaldi

She also helped expand Solidarity Sundays after Trump was elected.


53. Munira Ahmed

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The face of the Trump resistance.


54. Jessica Sabogal

This Colombian-American muralist helped design the prints used forthe We the People campaign.


55. Illma Gore

She protested Donald Trump with a haunting, bloody mural.


56. Jennifer Pierotti Lim

The co-founderof Republican Women for Hillary who planned a dinner for conservative women who felt left behind following Trumpselection.


57. Stephanie Schriock

Shes thepresident of EMILYs List, a womens political action group, and shes announced she will present her organizations annual award to the Womens Resistance to President Donald Trump.


58. JK Rowling

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Leave it to our favorite female author to come up with the best insults about Trump.


59. Raquel Willis

Willis is a black, transgender queer activistwho referred to Trump as someone who was once a threat but is now a painful reality.


60. Evan Greer

Shes a queer activist who has made it her goal to make the Womens March movement more inclusive for the transgender community.


61. Kelly Ramirez

An ecologist who helped draft an open letter from scientists defending inclusivity and the scientific process, including the pressing need to fight climate change.


62. Jane Zelikova

A co-founder of 500 Women Scientists,a movement with the same mission.


63. US Representative Grace Meng

Another elected official who decidedto boycott Trumps inauguration.


64. Tammy Duckworth

Not only is she a member of the US senate, shes also an Iraq War veteran who lost her legs in combat. Shes been extremely vocal on multiple fronts in the resistance against Trump.


65. Elizabeth Zeldin

A protest organizer who made sure to call out Senator Chuck Schumer on his early support for Trumps Cabinet.


66. Nelini Stamp

The membership director of the Working Families Party once said, People are going to keep showing up to demand their lawmakers stand up to Trump and his agenda.


67. Lena Dunham

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The controversial actress has been anything but quiet in resisting the president.


68. Krista Suh

A co-founder of the Pussyhat Project.


69. Jayna Zweiman

Another co-founder of the Pussyhat Project.


70. Kat Coyle

The female brainchild behind the design of the famous pussyhats.


71. Melissa McCarthy

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Need I say more?


72. Wendy Davis

Davis is a lawyer and Democratic politician whos known for her legendary filibuster to prevent restrictive abortion regulations in Texas.

Shes weighed in on Trumps blatant misogyny on more than occasion.


73. Leslie Sudock

Sudock owns a textile studio in South Philadelphia, and she helped produce pussyhats in preparation for the Womens March on Washington.


74. Isabella Lovin

The deputy PM of Sweden totally trolled Trump and his white-and-male-AF administration with an amazing all-female photo.


75. Kerry Washington

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The Scandal star wore a safety pin to the Screen Actors Guild Awards as a show solidarity for people affected by Trumps hateful presidency.


76. US Representative Karen Bass (D-CA 37th District)

Among several other women, Bass wore white to Trumps address to Congress asa way to express unity with women who have protested against Trump.


77. Lady Gaga

The pop star protested outside of New York Citys Trump Tower after the election.


78. Evvie Harmon

Aglobal co-coordinator of the Womens March on Washington.


79. Mrinalini Chakraborty

She immigrated to the US from India almost a decade ago, and shes since become the state co-coordinator of the Womens March on Washington.


80. Susan Sarandon

The actress has called Trump so clumsy and so bad at putting together policies that now everyone is awake.


81. Danai Gurira

Gurira used her platform as an actress on The Walking Dead to implore women to run for office in the Trump era.


82. Breanne Butler

A global co-coordinator for the Womens March on Washington.


83. Janelle Monae

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The singer-songwriter spoke at the Womens March and demanded of the president, Get off our areolas; get off our vaginas.


84. Tabitha St. Bernard-Jacobs

As a fashion designer and the Womens March Youth Initiative Coordinator, shes kicking ass when it comes to both the resistance and life in general.


85. Shakira

She wrote an open letter calling on America to protect our people following Trumps travel ban.


86. US Representative Susan Davis (D-CA 53rd District)

Davis wore white in solidarity with women at Trumps address to Congress, and shes called the Muslim ban a policy based on fear, not strength.


87. Debra Sands

The middle school teacher was one of thousands of women to participate in A Day Without A Woman and delivered this powerful quote: This past years election made me realize that voting in November isnt enough.


88. Sherry Amatenstein

Amatenstein is a therapist who publicly admitted toadding her name to a petition calling for Trump to be removed from office for what many believe is his mental illness.


89. Samantha Bee

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The Full Frontal host has never held back from calling out Trumps many blunders, and her Not the White House Correspondents Dinner this weekend will surely carry on that resistance.


90. Bob Bland

A national co-chair of the Womens March on Washington.


91. Kristin Bronson

Kristin Bronson is a Denver city attorney, whos dedicated her actions to helping undocumented immigrants who are victims of domestic abuse and are afraid to pursue their cases in court for fear of being caught by ICE and thus facing deportation.


92. Shannon Coulter

Shes the co-founder of the #GrabYourWallet boycott, which encourages shoppers not to spend their money on any retailers who do business with the Trump family.


93. Susan Radant

A psychoanalyst, clinical psychologist and director of the Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute who signed the petition to remove Trump from office for his perceived mental illness.

Shes said theres too much at stake to be silent any longer.


94. Sophie Ellman-Golan

Shes a #JewishResistance activist who was arrested during protests at Columbus Circlein New York City.


95. Barat Ellman

Yep, those last names arent a coincidence. Barat is Sophies mom, and shes also been arrested while protesting against Trump.


96. Rabbi Jill Jacobs

Shes the executive director of Truah, a rabbinical group that organized the rabbisprotest against the president.


97. Judy London

Shes the Directing Attorney of Public Counsels Immigrants Rights Project, and she contributed her services to help people affected by the travel ban.


98. Melanie Zuch

Another amazing female attorney who fought Trumps immigration ban.


99. Vanessa Wruble

The Director of Operations for the Womens March on Washington.


100. Laverne Cox

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Shes used her platform to advocateto help protect the transgender community in Trumps America.

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