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On March 12 of this year, Senator Ron Wyden asked James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, whether the National Security Agency gathers “any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of mi...
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A lot more Edward Snowden and surveillance news this weekend.
The EU is most displeased, as Jack noted this morning, to learn that the United States is using its spy agencies to . . . spy on them. On Sa...
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The emerging controversy about the USG spying on European allies brings to mind the ECHELON controversy a dozen years ago. (FAS has a page that collects information on ECHELON.) ECHELON was a signals i...
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This is an experiment---one that pushes the boundaries of what Lawfare is all about: We seem to have a correspondent in Cairo.
For those readers who haven't noticed, Egypt is exploding once again. I'm n...
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It's almost midnight here in Cairo, and Tahrir Square is full---again---as are the streets outside the presidential palace and a place called Rabaa el Adaweyah Square. The latter is full of Muslim Brothe...
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Raffaela has already posted on both the House of Representatives's and the Senate's versions of this year's NDAA--highlighting their differences with regards to Guantanamo detentions and transfers.
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Listen to Alan Liotta, a senior Defense Department official who focuses on the United States' detention policies worldwide on, unsurprisingly enough, the present and future of U.S.
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Lawfare topics took a backseat in the news this week, what with the Supreme Court's attention-grabbing week. The justices were too busy with same-sex marriage, the Voting Rights Act, and affirmative acti...
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A group of twenty-six senators yesterday wrote to DNI James Clapper, and inquired about the executive branch's application of the USA PATRIOT ACT---chiefly, it seems, the "business records" provision set...
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General James E. Cartwright, former deputy chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is the target of a Justice Department probe into the Stuxnet leak—so says an anonymous senior official, in this Washingt...
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I'm the subject of today's installment of the Council on Foreign Relations' otherwise excellent "Interviews" series--an effort to distill the nuances of hot-button legal issues for a more diverse audienc...
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Only a small number of Lawfare readers have ever heard of Michael Broukhim, but he has played an important role in the development of this site. Broukhim is an internet entrepreneur who was, when we were...
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Still leading the news: the story of Edward Snowden, his leaks of classified information about U.S.
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Last Thursday, Judge Gerald Bruce Lee of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia granted motions to dismiss the suit of a former Guantánamo detainee in Ameur v. Gates for lack of sub...
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A new development in the FISA/FAA world yesterday evening: Google and Microsoft have filed motions with the FISC (posted here on the FISC's public site) asking for permission to disclose to the public ho...
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Speaking of Laura Dean, she also sent me this morning the following account of ongoing and planned protests in Cairo:
It’s a hot muggy day in the restless Egyptian capital. A white haze of pollution brin...
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Here is the latest development in the Al-Bahlul appeal before the D.C. Circuit. Readers may recall that in May, the court received conflicting statements from detainee and counsel---one from Mr. Al-Bahlu...
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