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Remember all that concern for our infrastructure that supporters of cybersecurity legislation have been mentioning in their pleas to Congress to get something done? Well it looks like computer networks ...
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Georgetown University law professor David Cole has this piece in the New York Review of Books blog. Cole argues:
In closing off yet another avenue of accountability for the wrongs US officials intentiona...
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It is surprising to me that neither the Washington Post nor the New York Times nor the Wall Street Journal has yet to run an editorial reacting to John Brennan’s extensive and thoughtful speech on drones...
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I received the list below (of "Significant Cyber Attacks" on Federal systems since 2004) from sources on Capitol Hill last week. After reading through it and checking the data, it seemed worth making th...
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In general, I have received very positive reader response to Lawfare's neurotically-detailed military commissions coverage over the past few months. But yesterday, the estimable Spencer Ackerman suggeste...
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HASC Chairman Buck McKeon today released a draft NDAA for FY '13, which will head to the full committee for markup on the 9th. The text of the bill as it currently stands is posted here, McKeon's announ...
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If Ben's and Wells's live-blogging of the 9/11 arraignment wasn't enough to satiate your undying hunger, here are a rash of news stories on the highlights of the trial: the New York Times here and here a...
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I only noticed this morning that New York Times Editorial Page Editor Andrew Rosenthal had this blog post in advance of the KSM arraignment--responding, in part, to my Washington Post oped of Friday:
Ben...
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Announcing the inaugural paper of the Lawfare Research Paper Series
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Lawfare is pleased to announce that it is beginning publication of occasional papers, under title of the Lawfare Research Paper Series. Papers published in this series are ones that the Lawfare editors ...
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In preparing Wednesday's news roundup, I came upon this story in The Express Tribune, a Pakistani English-language newspaper, about an interview that BBC Urdu did with Pakistani Defense Minister Chaudhry...
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Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins gave the following statement to the press this morning:
Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins
Remarks at Guantanamo Bay
6 May 2012
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The defense’s question-and-answer session is finally done. When asked by the court, prosecutor Mark Martins quickly waives any challenge to the judge from the prosecution’s side. There’s a quick legal di...
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It’s nearly 5:00 pm when the court reconvenes, and everyone is exhausted. The day has been long and contentious, and we are not even 40 percent of the way through the questioning of the judge. Fortunatel...
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Mohammed’s lawyer naturally isn’t the only one with questions for the court. Under the rules, each defendant is entitled to ask questions, and by the looks of it, every defense attorney in the courtroom ...
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We have come now to the part of the hearing where the lawyers get to question Judge Pohl to see if they want to move to disqualify him. This turns into quite a marathon. Each of the defendant's legal tea...
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The pattern of defense lawyers’ injecting their concerns about the treatment of the detainees--and their access to them--into their own qualification colloquies continues through the other defense lawyer...
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Our arraignment programming then shifts to the qualifications of defense counsel, which, under commission rules, must be recited on the record. There are some rules-mandated inquiries between Judge Pohl ...
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Martins has introduced the government lawyers and paralegals, but Nevin now gestures towards others in the courtroom--who, according to the government, are assisting but not appearing as counsel. Does th...
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In the next few days, the Naval War College will be devoting a workshop to the topic of the legal geography of the battlefield. That includes the question of whether there is one, separate from where th...
