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Over at the Brookings Iran@Saban blog, my colleague Daniel Byman---who has agreed to curate a foreign policy essay feature for Lawfare (more on that later)---has this interesting essay on "Iran's Terrori...
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A few weeks ago, Bobby and John reacted to a Washington Post story reporting that seven hundred Afghan detainees at Bagram Air Force Base whom the US transferred to Afghan custody earlier
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The Times is reporting that an American drone has hit an Islamic seminary in northwest Pakistan early this morning. This is the first American drone strike outside of Pakistan's more turbulent tribal reg...
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Next in the November NSA Trove: the filling in of some additional detail, and in five different FISC-related documents, regarding the collection and handling, by the NSA, of telephony metadata on a mass ...
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The NSA had come knocking. It sought judicial permission to obtain, by means of pen registers and trap and trace devices, vast swaths of internet metadata within the United States. That request’s stagg...
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The latest tranche of declassified NSA materials is pretty big. But not all of the materials rank equally, significance-wise; at the same time, many of the documents---though undeniably important---are...
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Let's begin with the rather-sudden developments in a future U.S.-Afghan security agreement: Afghans want President Obama to admit American military errors in exchange for compromise on American counter...
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I have previously vented a bit of spleen at Rep. James Sensenbrenner---the former House Judiciary Committee chairman who helped write the Patriot Act---for his CYA behavior with respect to bulk metadata ...
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Long War Journal reports an airstrike on three AQAP fighters in Hadramout, Yemen, earlier today. By LWJ's count, this would be strike number 23 for the year (suggesting 2013 might fall short of 2012's h...
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This evening, the Senate voted on two GTMO-flavored amendments to the FY2014 National Defense Authorization Act.
One amendment was put forth by Senators Carl Levin and John McCain, and would have (among...
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Lisa Monaco, President Obama's counterterrorism advisor, gave the following speech at NYU School of Law this afternoon at this conference put on by the NYU Center for Law and Security on "Law and Strateg...
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Today marks the 150th anniversary of President Lincoln's delivery of the Gettysburg Address.
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On Monday, the Senate approved in a 91-0 vote to proceed to debate on the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act, and floor debate began today.
We've covered the competing bills on Lawfare, one passed ...
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Yesterday afternoon, the DNI declassified an 87-page FISC opinion authored by Judge Kollar-Kotelly that had allowed a bulk Internet metadata collection under FISA's version of the Pen Register statute,
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This latest set of declassified documents is related to programs authorized by Sections 501 and 702 of FISA.
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That, at least, seems to be what Ken Roth---executive director of Human Rights Watch---is arguing in this essay on the New York Review of Books web site. Entitled "The NSA's Global Threat to Free Speech,...
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Two hearings in one week on bitcoin. On Monday, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a hearing on virtual currencies.
Panel I
Jennifer Shasky Calvery (Testimony)
Directo...
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The government has filed its brief in Al Laithi v. Rumsfeld and Celikgogus v. Rumsfeld, a case involving the consolidated claims of former Guantanamo detainees against former government officials in thei...
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The Supreme Court today denied the Electronic Privacy Information Center's request for mandamus review of telephony metadata collection under Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act.
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This weekend saw some logistical hurdles in an otherwise surprisingly smooth road to Syrian chemical weapons elimination. A newly developed plan to transport the weapons out of the country by roads that ...
