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Raha Wala of Human Rights First has written in with an in-depth response, printed below in full, to my post the other day expressing disappointment in Senators Durbin and Feinstein’s op-ed on closing Gua...
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I cannot decide if I am more annoyed at the Washington Post or more annoyed at the Obama administration for the way this latest cache of Snowden-leaked NSA documents is playing. I have now gone through t...
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Edward Snowden and the NSA continued to dominate Lawfare this week.
Matt mused on how one might measure the value of the NSA surveillance programs.
Lawfare hosted a debate between Carrie Cordero and St...
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Monday at 9 a.m., Lawfare returns to Fort Meade, for a week’s worth of CCTV-broadcasted-from-Guantanamo pre-trial hearings in United States v. Mohammed et al. When we have the docketing order we'll shar...
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Robin Simcox, a research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society in London, writes in with the following thoughts on the hunger strike currently taking place in the United Kingdom on behalf of Shaker Aamer, ...
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Yesterday, Guantanamo detainee Ahmed Adnan Ajam filed a motion for partial summary judgment and for declaratory relief in his habeas suit before the D.C.
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. . . you will hear on a security-related theme.
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The uncommonly busy month of August chugs forward.
The Washington Post posted some more Edward Snowden-leaked NSA materials last night, as Sean mentioned.
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Over at the Washington Post, Barton Gellman has a Snowden-sourced piece revealing that the NSA "has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress gra...
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This afternoon, Judges Karen LeCraft Henderson, Janice Rogers Brown, and Thomas B. Griffith of the D.C. Circuit filed a per curiam order granting the government’s motion to stay the district court’s July...
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The government has filed its reply in support of its July motion for a stay pending appeal in Hatim v. Obama.
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Egypt is a giant, chaotic, deplorable mess. The death toll, as of this writing, has risen to 525, reports the New York Times. President Obama has canceled next month’s planned joint military exercise jus...
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Like David Remes, but with different assumptions and for different reasons, I was disappointed with Senators Durbin and Feinstein’s op-ed purporting to offer a plan for closing Guantanamo. As I’ve argue...
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At a little before seven am yesterday morning, police and military stormed the two sit-ins where supporters of ousted Muslim Brotherhood President Mohamed Morsi have been encamped for the last six weeks....
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Susan Landau has a new piece at Computing Now called Making Sense from Snowden: What’s Significant in the NSA Surveillance Revelations:
Did Snowden cause irreparable harm, or did he reveal facts that sho...
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David Remes, the longtime GTMO defense lawyer, wrote in with comments on Senators Feinstein and Durbin’s op-ed in today’s L.A. Times entitled, “How to close Gitmo”:
The oped is quite disappointing. In br...
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Cairo is in chaos. Two journalists are dead.
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Given Steve's critiques of my Monday post, both here and here, I thought it worth briefly clarifying a few points.
First, Steve somehow draws the conclusion that I am not interested in the legality of s...
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One immediate consequence of Snowden’s various revelations about massive USG surveillance – at home and especially abroad – was to put a chill on the loud U.S. campaign against Chinese cyber-snooping. (...
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I must confess to being somewhat vexed by Ben's reply this morning to the exchange between Carrie Cordero and me on FISA reform--not for what Ben says, but for why he thinks that leaves him in a "very m...
