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The hearing, entitled "Potential Changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)" is happening now. Watch the video below, and check out the prepared statements:
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Ike Skelton, defense policy expert and former Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, has died.
Today is the re-scheduled House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence hearing on NSA surveill...
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Count me as very skeptical about the suggestions in recent days that neither the White House nor the congressional intelligence committees knew about NSA collections against leaders in allied countries.
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I'm delighted to announce three new additions to Lawfare's masthead.
Orin Kerr, whose first post ran this morning, is the Fred C. Stevenson Research Professor of Law at the George Washington University ...
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The Justice Department recently changed its policy on notice to criminal defendants about the use of evidence derived from surveillance under Section 702 of FISA.
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I have not read these yet but will do so over the next few days and offer thoughts and summaries as I do.
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We're a long ways way off from a trial in United States v. Mohammed et. al.
That's the essence of my Security States piece, which went up today. It begins:
So when will the 9/11 case go to trial, any...
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Syria continues its cooperative streak. On Sunday, the country filed its initial plan to destroy its chemical weapons arsenal---three days ahead of schedule, no less---according to a statement released b...
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The "NSA Affair" still commands German headlines. Over the weekend, the news was dominated by the fit-for-a-spy-novel revelations that the top floor of the U.S. Embassy on Pariser Platz (overlooking the ...
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Back in early September, I discussed Germany’s deep concern about allegations that the United States had been conducting surveillance on foreign leaders’ email and phone conversations. At the time, Germ...
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...to my revised meta-study of drone strike casualties.
Ritika Singh's updated meta-study of drone strike casualties reaches exactly the right conclusion: the more we hear from non-government sources, t...
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On Thursday the Justice Department filed a letter notifying the D.C. Circuit that none of the four Guantanamo detainees protesting government force-feeding in Aamer v. Obama are any longer designated hun...
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Louise Arbour, president of the International Crisis Group, delivered a very powerful critique last week of existing doctrines and frameworks for promoting international justice, humanitarian protection,...
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In what could be a consequential move, federal prosecutors this week informed a man accused of providing material support to the Islamic Jihad Union ("IJU") that they intend to "offer into evidence or ot...
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This week, the uglier side of the U.S. targeted killing program received a few careful reviews: Ritika noted the release of two reports on drone strikes, one by Amnesty International and another by Human...
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Not to be outdone by Amnesty International, which responded earlier to my post on reports by Amenesty and Human Rights Watch, Letta Taylor of Human Rights Watch writes in with the following response as w...
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Here 'tis. The remarks of the Chief Prosecutor begin as follows:
Good evening. This week, the Military Commission convened to try the charges against Khalid Shaikh Mohammad, Walid Muhammad Salih Mu...
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I haven't watched this yet. Will publish thoughts on it after I have done so---if I have any. In the meantime, here are Josh Gerstein's from Politico:
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I've been thinking about the recent Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch reports in the context of my Meta-Study of Drone Strike Casualties from this summer, in which I examined the different met...
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Odds and ends are batted around, as some motions are deemed moot, and others are put off until the case’s December sitting. The whittling down takes us eventually to AE158, and to Ruiz’s bid to prevent ...
