The in-court audio gadgets having been satisfactorily adjusted, the hearing picks up again.  Some more odds and ends noted for the record: the court raises the recent Rule 706 examination requested by th...

The proverbial gavel sounds; the military judge, resplendent as ever in his robes, returns; Al-Nashiri’s case resumes.  He is in the courtroom, seated at the far left of counsel table.

Your correspondents return to Fort Meade in order to observe---via almost live, closed circuit television---four days of pretrial proceedings in United States v. Al-Nashiri.  The hearing in the capital m...

Americans deeply distrust power and secrecy and are right to do so.  Intelligence agencies are powerful and secret---but necessary. Reconciling these propositions is a fundamental task in a democracy. We...

With all the recent discussion of surveillance law and policy, it is easy to forget that we had recently been focused on other matters such as the scope of the still-operative 2001 AUMF. On that topic, ...

The President intends to nominate CIA General Counsel Stephen Preston to take over for Jeh Johnson as General Counsel of the Defense Department---or so, at least, I am hearing. I have not yet seen an off...

You can find it here.  The Chief Prosecutor's statement begins as follows: Good evening, and welcome to those here for the first time. Welcome back to those who have previously been to Guantanamo Bay to ...

So we learn from these charging documents, and from the Department of Defense's press release.

Many, of course, will doubt the power of data mining, geolocation and other cyber techniques to resolve ambiguities.  One would have thought, however, that Edwards Snowden the (in)famous NSA leaker would...

We interrupt the week's Snowden-related coverage with this tiny reminder: at 9 a.m. tomorrow, hearings resume in the military commission case of United States v. Al-Nashiri.   As always, we'll follow the...

From FishbowlDC: Noah Shachtman of Wired's Danger Room will be Foreign Policy's new Executive Editor of News after Susan Glasser stepped down last week. And Shane Harris of Washingtonian magazine will al...

Pardon the interruption from all-things-surveillance, but pursuant to our back and forth with Bobby, Jack, Matt, and Ben on the merits of a new AUMF, Representative Adam Schiff, a senior member of the Ho...

The New Republic has just published an essay we wrote over the weekend on the late unpleasantness involving surveillance. It opens: Former NSA contractor Edwards Snowden sure does know how to change the...

I had some hesitancy writing this blog since so many of the writers at the Post are acquaintances.  But it really must be said.  By now, readers are familiar with the Post's story on the NSA Prism progra...

You can't make this stuff up.  The Guardian has revealed its source to be NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who (not surprisingly) appears to be a fierce advocate of online freedom and privacy and who (perh...

This memorandum from the Secretary of Defense, came across my screen the other day.  It will give the reader some insight into how DoD is trying to build its cyber capabilities. MEMORANDUM FOR SECRETARIE...

Published by Free Press (2012) Reviewed by Stephen C. Neff