It's a chilly little day out at Fort Meade's Smallwood Hall---the closed-circuit television facility where, as per usual, Lawfare will be almost-live blogging pre-trial proceedings in the 9/11 case. Sam...

Caroline Krass had her confirmation hearings today before SSCI to become General Counsel of CIA.  Krass is, in my opinion, wildly qualified for the job, and I hope her confirmation process goes smoothly ...

They say that the lack of information sharing is one of the major exacerbating factors behind cyber-insecurity. So I've decided that Lawfare is going to be entirely transparent about the attacks against ...

It’s 3:34 p.m. when the gong sounds in the Expeditionary Legal Complex, Courtroom Two.  Its brassy (though of course imaginary) note signals official resumption of the afternoon’s fun, and further legal ...

The stage is set for a key defense challenge, AE008.  After a year and a half, its time to debate this enduring docket item. Doing that will be a job for Walter Ruiz, one of Al-Hawsawi’s attorneys. The t...

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 ...

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...

Will Bin Al Shibh be staying or going?

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...

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...

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: ...

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 ...

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...

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...