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Yesterday, I had the pleasure of recording a podcast discussion organized by the National Constitution Center on NSA, the President's speech on Friday, and the Review Group report. My interlocutor was Pe...
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Late last month Marty Lederman flagged the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies’ endorsement of the Front-Page Rule:
That informal precept, long employed by the leader...
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The estimable Gregory Johnsen has a lengthy article in Buzzfeed about the history of the AUMF. Entitled "60 Words and War Without End: The Untold Story of the Most Dangerous Sentence in U.S. History," th...
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Today is the fifth anniversary of President Obama’s executive order directing the closure of Guantanamo within one year.
I welcomed the President’s order at the time, but I commented on NPR and elsewher...
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The long-running habeas case of
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The New York Times reports today that former Representative Otis G.
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A few snow flurries have shut down the federal government, but they won't shut down the Lawfare news roundup---though it's a light news day anyway.
The New York Times and Washington Post report that the...
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That's the mixed message of this new poll from the Pew Center for the People and the Press, which also suggests---among other things---that President Obama's speech is not resonating all that much with t...
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Tomorrow morning at 9:30 a.m., a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit will hear oral argument in the Guantanamo habeas case of Abdullah v. Obama. Before Circuit Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson, and Senior...
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In his excellent analysis of the President's NSA speech and PPD-28, Ben suggests that there is less than meets the eye to the President's promise not to listen in on the conversations of foreign leaders ...
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Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day to all.
The news cycle belongs to Iran.
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President Obama's speech on Friday and its accompanying Presidential Policy Directive (PDD-28) cover a lot of ground, announce a bunch of reforms, announce plans and direction for more, and kick still ot...
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Yesterday’s New York Times editorial about the President’s speech faults the President for failing to give credit to Edward Snowden:
One of his biggest lapses was his refusal to acknowledge that his enti...
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The revolt against the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (greater Syria), usually referred to by its acronym ISIS, is the latest dramatic turn in the Syrian civil war. In the last few weeks, a range of r...
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Never was the phrase “the devil’s in the details” more apt than in describing President Obama’s instruction, yesterday, that the government query its bulk collection metadata only “after a judicial findi...
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President Obama’s address on Friday outlining surveillance reforms for the NSA hit the mark in both substance and tone. He defended without apology the necessity of intelligence gathering, outlined the ...
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This week Lawfare focused on the debate over surveillance reform.
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President Obama delivered a major policy address this afternoon---and the White House released an accompanying policy directive---in response to the recommendations of his surveillance review group, the ...
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I had two reactions to President Obama's address, one general and another specific.
First the general. President Obama made a good speech today, both for what he said and what he didn't say. He has a...
