Alas, Lawfare won't be live-blogging the session, which presumably will reveal a bit more about what one accused, Ramzi Binalshibh, told the judge on Monday: that the detainee recognized one of his trans...

Over at Just Security, Steve Vladeck and a group of scholars have posted a letter to President Obama asking him to include in his AUMF proposal not merely a sunset for the new ISIS AUMF but one for the u...

Jury selection in the trial of  accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has dragged on for over a month. Since January 5, over 150 potential jurors have been questioned, and still the judge proc...

If one thing was clear from Tuesday morning's 61-minute argument before the D.C.

At the Wilson Center, Lisa Monaco, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, delivered a keynote address about the evolving nature of the cyber threat and the Obama administr...

According to the Washington Post, the Obama administration is establishing a new agency to fuse intelligence from around the government when a cyber crisis occurs.

It is with great reluctance that I wade into Gabor and Steve’s debate about how to close the U.S.

On February 5, 2015, Anthem---a health insurance company---announced that hackers had been able to access records containing tens of millions of names, birthdays, Social Security numbers, addresses and e...

The Palestinian turn to the International Criminal Court has Israel’s supporters fretting over potential prosecutions and international delegitimization.

As we continue to read through documents released on February 3 that collectively detail the intelligence community's efforts to implement Presidential Policy Directive-28, (PPD-28), we thought it woul...

"By some estimates Google, Microsoft Bing, and Yahoo only give us access to around 5% of the content on the Web." The Dark Web is vast and difficult to search -- you have to know where you are going to g...

Our session is once more called to order.  The defense and accused are here, but now the Special Review Team is not---its place having been taken by the ordinary prosecution team.

Earlier this year, Herb posted a nice summary of the FTC's report on the security of the internet of things.  Today, Senator Ed Markey joins the conversation with a staff report on the insecurity of auto...

The gavel bangs. The military judge, Army Col. James L. Pohl, calls the proceedings to order. Members of the prosecution are absent, their place taken by a Special Review Team that has been looking into ...

The Harvard National Security Journal just published an unusually good issue that will be of interest to many Lawfare readers. The piece I have read most carefully is Intelligence Legalism and the Natio...

Your correspondent returns to Fort Meade's Smallwood Hall---venue for closed circuit TV monitoring of courtroom proceedings down at Guantanamo.  At the base in Cuba, the military commission case against ...

This is interesting. From the Pew Research Center: About two-thirds of investigative journalists surveyed (64%) believe that the U.S. government has probably collected data about their phone calls, email...