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This is a very weird column by New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan. Sullivan, acknowledging that the Times has broken important stories about the CIA's drones program and has sought more infor...
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The following State Department teleconference on Libya took place the other day:
Office of the Spokesperson
Background Conference Call With Senior State Department Officials
Washington, DC
October 9, ...
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I'm very pleased to announce that the 6th Annual National Security Law Workshop will take place May 16-17, 2013, at the U.S. Army JAG School in Charlottesville, VA! The call for papers and attendees is ...
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Brigadier General Mark Martins, the Chief Prosecutor for the military commissions at Guantanamo, has released this statement regarding this week's motions hearing in United States v. Mohammed et al.
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Well, that didn't take long. Yesterday, I posted a wiki job board on Lawfare so that people who are hiring in the field of national security law could reach those looking for work in the field. I expecte...
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Majority Leader Harry Reid issued the following statement today:
REID: SENATE WILL HAVE ONE MORE CHANCE TO PASS CYBERSECURITY LEGISLATION
Washington, D.C. – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid issued the ...
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In today's New York Times is this article by Ben Weiser about some information that has come to light in a memorandum written by District Court Judge Kevin Thomas Duffy this week.
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Earlier today, lawyers for Abdullah Bin Omar Al-Hajji moved to dismiss his appeal to the D.C. Circuit voluntarily, and without prejudice.
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Yesterday was a big day:
As Ben already noted, SecDef Panetta spoke to business executives in national security on cybersecurity yesterday in New York.
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Here's a transcript of Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's speech yesterday on cybersecurity in New York:
Remarks by Secretary Panetta on Cybersecurity to the Business Executives for National Security, New...
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People looking to hire in national security law often send us job announcements to post, and folks looking for jobs frequently get in touch thinking---usually wrongly---that we can help. We should do mor...
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Remember the defense's request, in U.S. v. Mohammed et al, to postpone next week's motions hearing on account of an infestation of rodents, rodent poop, and mold in the defense's offices? Well, earlier ...
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Lots of coverage of the House hearing on the security lapses that led to the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. State Department officials admitted that requests for additional security were denie...
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One focus of Ken’s response to Eric Posner’s Slate piece is Eric’s claim that “the United States has invoked a new idea of the ‘unable or unwilling’ country, one that outside powers can invade because th...
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Here's the latest fromthe Washington Post,on the Espionage Act, Intelligence Identities Protection Act, and false statements case against John Kiriakou, the former CIA officer who helped capture Abu Zuba...
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Two more amicus briefs were filed, today and yesterday, respectively, in the case of Al-Nashiri v. MacDonald.
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Ahmed Al Haj of the Associated Press reports that Yemeni authorities have detained a possible U.S. citizen with alleged ties to Al Qaeda:
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As you've by now read, Congress issued a report the other day condemning Huawei and ZTE for potential security concerns in the telecom hardware they manufacture. Others have, not inaccurately, suggested...
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Senator Lieberman has an op ed in the Washington Post today calling for a move forward on his cybersecurity legislation. Meanwhile, Senator Collins (one of the cosponsors of Lieberman's bill) has called...
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Jack mentioned Eric Posner's new article in Slate announcing that US drone strikes in Pakistan are illegal under the UN Charter because, among other things, they lack genuine consent from Pakistan and th...
