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For those who are living in a cave and only getting news through Lawfare, we’ll start with an Edward Snowden update: As Wells noted over the weekend, the Justice Department filed charges against Edward S...
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We are pleased to announce that over the last few weeks, Lawfare---which began as a collaborative project of its three founders with no formal organizational structure---has become a non-profit corporati...
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We are very pleased to announce Lawfare's first e-book, Lawfare on the National Defense Authorization Acts, which is now available in Kindle format on Amazon for $4.99.
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Philip Bobbitt (Columbia Law School, and the author of, among many other things, Terror and Consent) writes in:
Three thoughts on the Snowden matter.
First, Snowden's strongest point: how can the govern...
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Earlier, I posted my read on the leaked NSA targeting and minimization procedures. Unsurprisingly, the ACLU has a rather different take.
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Edward Snowden is on the move, in Moscow and reportedly heading towards Ecuador, but I will leave coverage of that to the daily press.
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In his NDU speech, President Obama asserted that “there is no justification beyond politics for Congress to prevent us from closing a facility that should never have been opened.” As has become fairly t...
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The age of international and transnational terrorism came to prominence in the late 1960s and 70s, and then kicked into high gear in the 1980s, particularly where terrorists were supported by, and someti...
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Th Washington Post and New York Times report.The three-count criminal complaint---alleging theft of government property, unauthorized communication of national defense information, and willful communicat...
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Lawfare readers probably already know that we had a few technical difficulties this week that resulted in the site's being intermittently inaccessible for a couple of days. We hope we're past all of that...
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Here is Brig. Gen. Mark Martins's statement on this week's hearings in United States v. Mohammad et al.
It opens:
Good afternoon. I am pleased to have the opportunity to speak with you after five d...
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The evidence submitted, it falls to Edward Ryan to argue in support of AE18, the prosecution’s request for a written communications order.
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Defense re-direct of Welsh follows, and---the day having slogged on---we’ll summarize it ever briefly.
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Suspense: will we proceed with the prosecution’s examination of CAPT Welsh? We wait to find out. Prosecutor Edward Ryan has a few housekeeping matters, one having to do with the long pending AE18---the...
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The ELC conch passes to the Abaya-clad Cheryl Bormann, lawyer for Walid Bin Attash. She met our still-testifying witness, CAPT Welsh, in the summer of 2011. Before teleporting back to then, however, de...
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Anything to take up before we get the post-lunch proceedings rolling? Nope.
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The prosecutor Robert Swann returns to the podium; our JTF staffer returns to the witness stand, having run his needed errand. Al-Baluchi, the witness says, just told me that in fact, his teeth had shif...
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For those wondering how exactly the FBI acquired authorization to use drones for domestic surveillance, the Washington Post's Craig Whitlock has the answer, through some FAA documents released in respons...
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The commission is called to order. The accused are with us here, save two: Mustafa Al-Hawsawi and Ammar Al-Baluchi. Did the latter two men waive, knowingly and voluntarily, their rights to attend? Afte...
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A few years ago, when my then-research assistant Zaahira Wyne and I were trying to analyze what sort of people really made up the Guantanamo population---research that eventually went into both Chapter 3...
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