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Jack gave a terrific rapid reaction to the DNI's 2015 annual threat assessment, delivered last Thursday. Here, I wanted to add a few more brief thoughts comparing this assessment to previous ones.
First,...
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Motion AE319J is next. In it, the defense asks to postpone the government’s bid to admit hearsay, pending the Court of Military Commission Review’s (“CMCR”) resolution of an interlocutory appeal concerni...
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Describing his actions as part of a “fateful, even historic, mission,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has arrived in the United States in preparation for his address to Congress on Iran’s nucl...
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The lunch hour comes to a close and we go back in the record in United States v. Al-Nashiri.
What’s the way forward? We wonder, given Judge Vance Spath’s prior ruling on unlawful influence, which exc...
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At the top of the hour, Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper, Jr. will discuss the state of the intelligence community, and outline the major challenges and successes experienced throughout...
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The military judge, Air Force Col. Vance Spath, ascends the bench. Our proceedings return to order.
And they begin with a bang: That is, with the court partially granting defense motion AE332, regardin...
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We today resume with Lawfare's almost-live coverage of pretrial proceedings in the military commission case of United States v. Al-Nashiri. Our two-week hearing's second week is set to commence today so...
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[Cross-posted at Just Security.]
A real consensus is developing on the contours of an appropriate AUMF---at least among academics and other commentators. It wasn’t always this way. For months, we, amon...
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It happened Friday. Here's the White House Statement:
In January 2014, President Obama directed an end to the Section 215 bulk telephony metadata program as it then existed, and called for the establishm...
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
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Last Friday's sessions in the Al Nashiri military commission case were quick. The first came quite early in the morning to resolve an outstanding issue from Thursday's closed session: whether the defense...
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I'm excited to announce three new additions to Lawfare's roster of contributing editors---all of whom have written for the site before and will be familiar to our readers.
Timothy H. Edgar is a visiting...
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Editor’s Note: Autonomous weapons systems—or, as it is much more fun to call them, killer robots—are a controversial weapon of war. Critics worry that they make war more likely because they do not put so...
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On Thursday of this week, Lawfare’s Benjamin Wittes and Bobby Chesney, along with General Jack Keane, appeared before the House Armed Services Committee to provide “Outside Perspectives on the President’...
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Lawfare’s own Bobby and Ben trekked to the Hill this Thursday, to testify alongside Gen. Jack Keane before the House Armed Services Committee on the Obama administration’s AUMF. Ben testified that, while...
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Do you worry that the NSA, perhaps in a joint program with the U.S.
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The number of Assyrian Christians kidnapped by the Islamic State continues to rise. The New York Times reports that, according to one local Assyrian leader, 287 people have now been captured by the milit...
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At the outset of Wednesday's session in the Al Nashiri military commission---the criminal proceeding against a Guantanamo detainee accused of plotting, among other things, the 2000 attack on the USS Cole...
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I’m very happy to announce the call for proposals and attendees for the 8th Annual National Security Law Workshop, which will take place in Houston on May 14th and 15th this spring. Geoff Corn and I are ...
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That's the word from the Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg. I reckon this will mean the 9/11 case will be swiftly unpaused. From Rosenberg's piece:
In an abrupt retreat Friday, the Pentagon withdrew an o...
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