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Today the New York Times editorializes on the latest details of NSA surveillance programs unearthed by Charlie Savage in the paper.
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I was sufficiently puzzled by Charlie Savage's story yesterday about NSA email monitoring that I waited a day to write anything about it. I'm still pretty puzzled by it, so I'm going to use this post to ...
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Last Friday I asked how NSA Director Alexander’s claim that “we can audit the actions of our people 100%” was consistent with USG uncertainty about what Snowden stole and with its claims that it was “put...
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The reply was filed yesterday by counsel for Guantanamo detainee. En banc briefing in the appeal of his military commission conviction is now seemingly complete.
In the reply's "Summary of Argument" se...
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Calling all Lawfare readers: We are looking for an undergraduate or a recent graduate to intern with us during the fall semester, and will be accepting applications until the end of the month. The announ...
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From the Department of Still More Surprises Here: Charlie Savage of the New York Times informs us that the NSA “is not just intercepting the communications of Americans who are in direct contact with for...
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Monday's ruling in United States v.
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Eli Lake and Josh Rogin have an amazing story at the Daily Beast about how last week’s closure of embassies was prompted by a USG intercept of a conference call of “more than twenty” leaders of AQ and af...
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Yesterday, I posted posted this little piece objecting to a Daily Mail story's account of its interview with Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense William Lietzau, in which it describes a "jaw-dropping U...
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The BBC reports that at least 11 people were killed and 24 injured this morning when a bomb exploded in a packed Pakistani soccer stadium. The apparent target was a provincial government minister; young ...
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My Brookings colleague Allan Friedman, an expert on cybersecurity, has this essay on the Atlantic's web site:
In the coming weeks, Congress and the civilian defense leadership will have to ask a lot of q...
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I saw this breathless story in the Daily Mail by reporter David Rose a few hours after seeing William Lietzau, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee matters, at a social event:
The Penta...
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"Does it really matter, from a legal perspective, whether the U.S.
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Here are the reports from the Federal agencies on the new incentive programs I mentioned:
Department of Treasury [this is the official link -- but it isn't working just now]
Department of Homeland Secu...
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The other day, Jack posted an excerpt from a Foreign Policy article by Professor Bruce Ackerman, advocating for Senator Wyden to take advantage of the Speech and Debate Clause and disclose classified inf...
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Consistent with the earlier cybersecurity Executive Order, the Administration has been working on ways of incetivizing the private sector to adopt the Cybersecurity Framework under development by NIST. ...
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Let’s begin with all things Al Qaeda. Sources revealed that Ayman al-Zawahiri allegedly told Nasir al-Wuhayshi, leader of AQAP and Al Qaeda’s number two, to “do something.” Barbara Starr of CNN reports t...
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Three Guantanamo detainees filed their opening brief yesterday in Aamer v. Obama. Shaker Aamer, Nabil Hadjarab and Ahmed Belbacha are appealing the D.C. District Court’s denial of their motions for a pre...
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This story from Ellen Nakashima and Anne Gearan, in the Washington Post, reports that the threat leading to the closure of so many embassies and consulates involves a direct order from Ayman al-Zawahiri ...
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The New York Times editorial page is annoyed, though not surprised, that
some politicians are trying to exploit the [embassy closure] episode by arguing that it proves the value of the National Security ...
