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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.
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China’s declaration of an Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) in the East China Sea on November 23 confounded many observers, including veteran China-watchers. The move alarmed China’s neighbors and w...
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The NSA is not exactly known for engaging with the public. The old “No Such Agency” joke more or less captured the agency’s traditional posture: the less said, the better.
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Let's start with Guantanamo: This year's NDAA has taken its final form, and Raffaela posted an initial summary of the provisions germane to detention. Ben linked us to the full text of the bill once it c...
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The White House today released a "Report Consistent with the War Powers Resolution," concerning deployments of U.S. force equipped for combat. Nothing too exciting or novel here, on first glance at least...
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Next week's session will be a bit shorter than usual, so far as Lawfare's coverage is concerned: though the pre-trial motions hearing will commence on Monday, that day's proceedings will be closed.
The ...
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Shane Harris reports over at Foreign Policy:
Chris Inglis, the deputy director of the National Security Agency and its highest-ranking civilian leader, stepped down from his post this week and will form...
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Ryan Lizza’s piece in this week’s New Yorker, “State of Deception,” is essential reading for those interested in surveillance and civil liberties. It is a gripping account of the history of the NSA tele...
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My friend Stewart Baker has likened the privacy requirements of the draft NIST framework to a "privacy tax." His fear, which has sound economic force, is that the imposition of privacy protective requir...
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What is the status of a long-pending report on the CIA's counterterrorism interrogation methods? According to the The Atlantic, the Obama Administration has been sitting on the 6,000-page tome, in which...
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It is precarious to comment on a leaked version of broad conclusions from a government report. But I think the NYT and WSJ accounts of the recommendations by the President’s Review Group on Intelligence...
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The Onion ranks this year's "Top 2 Tsarnaevs of 2013."
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From the department of Not a Joke, Appearances Notwithstanding comes this article from Forbes. My only explanation for this is that the folks over at the National Reconnaissance Office must be having a l...
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On Wednesday, the Solicitor General filed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to grant, vacate, and remand (“GVR”) the Samantar case to the Fourth Circuit after that Circuit’s surprising decision la...
