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Y'all might have noticed: Lawfare was inaccessible, in an on-again, off-again fashion, for a good part of the day. We asked our hosting service, Blue Water Media, to resolve the problem and report back t...
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Robert Litt, the general counsel to the director of national intelligence, has emerged as one of the administration's point men on response to the Snowden revelations, the defense of the intelligence com...
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After weeks dominated by talk of surveillance reform, Lawfare is slowly returning to its usual eclectic self.
Wells flagged Guantanamo detainee Al Rahabi’s hearing with the Periodic Review Board.
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After months of good news, the mission to wipe out Syria’s chemical arsenal may have run into trouble. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which is charged with ensuring disp...
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That's the word from the NSA/CSS. From today's release:
GEN Keith Alexander – Commander, U.S. Cyber Command/Director, NSA/Chief, CSS – is pleased to announce that Richard "Rick" Ledgett is now the 15th ...
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As Ritika relayed yesterday, Navy Vice Admiral Michael S. Rogers has been tapped to be President Obama’s nominee to head up the U.S. Cyber Command and to serve as the next Director of the NSA. Obama’s no...
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Vice Admiral Michael Rogers will succeed Gen. Keith Alexander as the director of the National Security Agency, reports the New York Times:
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is set to announce that ...
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The DOJ has just announced it will seek the death penalty against 20-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev for his alleged role in the Boston Marathon bombings. Here's the notice the government filed today in feder...
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While NSA critics including David Cole have asserted that the Section 702 program is inconsistent with international privacy norms, the reality is far more complex. As I explain in a forthcoming Fordham...
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I've only just now had a chance to take a look at the memorandum from SecDef Hagel reorganizing DoD structures that was issued in December 2013. He're's a copy. For those following along, the big news ...
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Directors from five intelligence agencies appeared yesterday to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Although nothing earth-shattering was revealed at the public hearing, there were some tes...
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I don't normally write a post noting departures from our masthead. Our student contributors come and go with the turn of the seasons. They write for a while and then take clerkships, go to law firms, or ...
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That's the gist of today's ruling in this terrorism case, which is now pending in the Northern District of Illinois. The order opens as follows:
Defendant Adel Daoud is charged with attempting to use ...
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During my senior year of high school, the Thai military staged a coup d’état to overthrow the government of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. I remember tanks rolling past my house in Bangkok, and BBC a...
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In his speech earlier this month, President Obama announced interim changes to the handling of bulk telephony metadata---ones that he would seek to implement immediately, and that would not call for legi...
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This one will get underway at 10:00, too. The Attorney General will appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee; we'll post his testimony when it becomes available.
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The hearing will get underway at 10:00 a.m.. Video will be available via C-SPAN and other outlets.
The Director of National Intelligence will testify; his written statement can be found here.
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Last night, President Obama delivered his State of the Union Address. You can find the full video here. The speech focused on a strong call of action and a promise to go it alone if Congress doesn’t adva...
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I am not sure why this is a big deal, my knowledge of the British legal system being less than fulsome, but a British barrister has written a legal opinion calling into question large swaths of surveilla...
