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Over at The Week, Marc Ambinder shares the following from a senior government official regarding the leaked FISA Court order for Verizon.
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[See below for an important correction to this post]
I confess myself at a bit of a loss to understand the FISA Court order that Steve discussed earlier and that Glenn Greenwald disclosed at the Guardian.
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This story from Glenn Greenwald is pretty alarming--but it pales in comparison to the FISA Court's order itself, a copy of which is posted on the Guardian's website.
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I haven't given you all a Moment of Zen in oh-so-long, but fear not dear readers, I haven't abandoned you in your thirst for national security snark.
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Today’s lead story is that National Security Adviser Tom Donilon is stepping down---and Susan Rice is taking his place---in one of President Obama’s more defiant gestures to Congress in recent memory. Sa...
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On May 31, 2013, the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution hosted Rached Ghannouchi, co-founder and president of Tunisia's Islamist ruling party, Al Nahda, for an address on th...
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President Obama and his team pledged in 2009 to work hard with Congress to close GTMO. There appeared to be little White House follow-up for the next four years, however. And indeed, the administration...
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On Monday, the Ninth Circuit heard argument in Hamad v. Gates and Al-Nashiri v. MacDonald, two civil cases involving Guantanamo.
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Apropos of Jack's post: here's the Chairman's mark of the National Defense Authorization bill for 2014.
Among many, many other things, the draft legislation requires the Secretary of Defense to notify c...
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One point of common ground in the debate at Lawfare over the continued viability of the AUMF (at least among Bobby and Matthew, Jen and Steve, and me – not sure about Ben) is that Congress should engage ...
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The House is taking a crack at revising post-9/11 counterterrorism legislation. One proposal would mandate information sharing with Congress for kill/capture operations.
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Last year, I posted this remarkable set of slides from the Chinese presentation at the MILOPS conference in Singapore, slides entitled "China has indisputable sovereignty over the islands in the South Ch...
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After over three years of pretrial and motions hearings, Pfc. Bradley Manning’s court martial begins today at Ft. Meade, report Julie Tate and Ellen Nakashima of the Washington Post. Manning faces 22 cha...
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Monday finds me in Bangkok---jetlagged and exhausted---at the 26th annual International Military Law and Operations (MILOPS) Conference, which is convened every year by U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM). I do...
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The following guest post is from Professor Geoffrey Corn (South Texas College of Law), in response to a post in which I raised the possibility that, in light of the non-battlefield targeting standards ar...
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Christof Heyns, the UN's special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings and other bad stuff has issued a statement reiterating his call for a "moratorium" on the use of lethal autonomous robots.
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Hearing few objections (and indeed many expressions of support!), I forge ahead with Lawfare's newest feature: the Week That Was.
The week's big news was that President Obama plans to nominate James Com...
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Let’s begin with some good news about terrorists for a change.
Mansour J.
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In light of Jim Comey's reported selection as FBI director, this 2005 speech---published later in the Green Bag---is a matter of inherent interest. It's one of the things I'll be reading over the next fe...
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All you ham consumers should now be on alert: Chinese company Shuanghui International is proposing to acquire pork producer Smithfield Foods. According to the Washington Post's Howard Schneider and Brady...
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