Marty Lederman has a long post picking apart the errors in last week’s AP story on last December’s drone strike in Yemen.  Along the way he carefully parses the covert action statute, and has interesting...

The estimable Benjamin Weiser of the excellent New York Times news staff wrote me this afternoon response to my post earlier today about the government's motion for pseudononymous testimony in the Sulaim...

I'm not sure what, but I'm sure it stands for something important:

Remember how I said Lawfare would return tomorrow, to cover further proceedings in the commission case of United States v. Al-Nashiri?  Well, we won't be doing so after all; it turns out today's closed s...

The afternoon session kicks off with AE 171, a motion that would allow members of the defense team to visit the facility in which Al-Nashiri is housed, referred to as Camp 7, in order to assist the defen...

Those who leak classified information violate their contracts, the public’s trust, and the law. As for those who publish the leaked information - it’s “complicated,” according to FBI Director James Comey...

Pre-trial proceedings continue today down at Guantanamo---but on a closed basis.  Lawfare thus won't be there, but will pick up with coverage of the military commission case of United States v. Al-Nashir...

David Sanger reports that the Pentagon and the NSA planned a sophisticated cyberattack aimed at “the Syrian military and President Bashar al-Assad’s command structure” that “would essentially turn the li...

Speaking of the Sulaiman Abu Gayth case in Judge Lewis Kaplan's courtroom in New York, check out this briefing.

For those interested in that order the other day by Judge Lewis Kaplan's giving defendant Sulaiman Abu Gayth access to KSM, here's the motion that led to it.

The last matter for the court this morning is AE 187, a defense motion seeking to move the location of the military tribunal from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to Norfolk, Virginia. Commander Mizer, for the defe...

The next motion before the court is AE 181, a defense motion to dismiss the capital punishment referral for all the charges against Al-Nashiri on Due Process and Eighth Amendment grounds because he will ...

The morning's proceedings begin with a return to Al-Nashiri's alleged role in the attack on the French oil tanker the M/V Limburg in Yemen in October 2002. In AE 168, CDR Brian Mizer, counsel for Al-Nash...

After Saturday’s closed hearing and a Sunday recess, the military commission for United States v. Al-Nashiri is back in business today to work through numerous pre-trial motions at Guantanamo. As Wells m...

The New York Times has an editorial today about the need for data privacy legislation and about the report that president adviser John Podesta is putting together on big data and privacy. "The president ...