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We’ve returned from a lunch recess. So has Ramzi Bin Al-Shibh, along with his four co-accused, lawyers for both sides, and the military judge. Tension hangs in the air as the court attempts to question ...
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Well, that will teach us to post podcast interviews with NSA officials!
We have been experiencing intermittent outages this morning. They appear to be the result of cyberattacks coming from IP addresses...
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46C is on deck now---at least so far as it relates to the might-get-argued-might-not AE008.
In it, Cheryl Bormann asks the court to revisit a related and earlier decision not to compel discovery. She de...
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Will Bin Al Shibh be staying or going?
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It’s go time down at Guantanamo.
Per the court’s usual practice, all five accused are present for this first day of open proceedings, along with their lawyers---and, it appears, some new ones. Capt. Tod...
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Today begins the open portion of a week-long slate of hearings in the 9/11 military commission case, United States v. Mohammed et al. Your Lawfare correspondent is caffeinated, rested, and ready to provi...
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It's Day 2 of “Inside NSA: We Brought in a Recording Device So You Don’t Have To”—a special series of podcast interviews with senior NSA officials that we conducted last week.
In today's episode, we sit...
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Analyses of District Court Judge Richard Leon's opinion requiring the government to cease telephone metadata collection under Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act against two plaintiffs are proliferating: ...
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I have now read through Judge Richard Leon's opinion enjoining bulk metadata collection under Section 215 of the Patriot Act. It's an odd document. For one thing, it's focused on a constitutional matter ...
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More back-and-forth in the force-feeding case Aamer v. Obama, on appeal before the D.C. Circuit. Last Wednesday, the government filed a response to the detainees' Dec.
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Ben has already linked to Judge Leon's remarkable opinion today, holding that the NSA metadata collection program is unconstitutional. The critical passages from the opinion begin on page 43, when Judge...
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That is the title of a recent essay in International Security by Lucas Kello, a post-doctoral fellow at the Kennedy School at Harvard. The essay is a rare effort to understand how international relation...
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This today from Judge Richard Leon of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Judge Leon appears to have stayed his opinion pending review. I haven't read it yet. But it concludes:
In the m...
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The nearly-singular focus of last week's oral argument in Hatim v. Obama, the counsel access case, was the intrusiveness of JTF-GTMO's genital-area searches. That focus hasn't at all shifted, judging by ...
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The Associated Press is reporting that Harvard University has evacuated its campus after unconfirmed reports of explosives in four of its buildings--"out of an abundance of caution." Yale University issu...
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The two detainees, Saad Muhammad Husayn Qahtani and Hamood Abdull Hamood, are both Saudi nationals, and were transferred to the Saudi government. A total of six Guantanamo detainees have been transferred...
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Welcome to "Inside NSA: We Brought in a Recording Device So You Don't Have To"---a special series of podcast interviews of senior NSA officials that we conducted last week.
As we described on Saturday, ...
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They got remarkable access both to people and to facilities
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Here it is; its introductory paragraphs follow below.
By way of reminder, this week's pre-trial motions hearing in United States v. Mohammed et. al. commences tomorrow, with a closed session.
