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At last, you have reached the final post in Lawfare’s coverage of the motions hearing portion of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri’s arraignment.
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First off, happy New Year to all our readers.
The year 2014 was a great one for Lawfare--with continued growth in readership, and development of new content streams. I honestly did not believe we would ...
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Yesterday, the Pentagon released five Guantanamo detainees to Kazakhstan. The men---three Yemenis and two Tunisians---had been approved for repatriation in 2009; none of them had been charged with a crim...
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The Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg has the scoop; apparently the five men are headed for Kazakhstan.
The Pentagon freed five Guantánamo prisoners to resettlement in Kazakhstan on Tuesday, a day after the...
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Wells already flagged yesterday's D.D.C.
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Such is the gist of Judge Richard Roberts' order, issued yesterday in the context of the high-value Guantanamo detainee's habeas case in D.C.
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Last week a Lawfare reader brought this item to our attention:
Earlier this month, the Federalist Society's International and National Security Law Practice Group hosted a Podcast with The Wall Street J...
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One day following the official end of the International Security Assistance Force’s mission in Afghanistan, the Afghan Taliban declared the “defeat” of the United States and its allies.
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A few weeks ago I wrote critically of the FBI's statement that it had “enough information to conclude that the North Korean government is responsible" for the Sony hack:
First, the evidence” is of the mo...
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Given that it's December 29, it's not much of a promise to say that this will be my last fundraising solicitation post of the year. That said, I promise. But I wanted to remind those of you who had not y...
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On the night before Christmas eve, the National Security Agency quietly released hundreds of surveillance-related documents, some of which describe the inadvertent targeting of U.S. citizens. We’ve begun...
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Having started this series of posts by focusing on the aspect of the SSCI's report on which the committee majority is strongest---the program's brutality---I want to turn now to the aspects of the commit...
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The latest issue of the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative reviews the most important maritime security developments in Asia in 2014. AMTI’s expert analysts also look ahead, highlighting what they arg...
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Jane beat me to it ... This is a really bad movie. The only thing worse than watching a bad movie out of a sense of patriotic obligation is doing so with the intent of writing a scathing review, only t...
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This morning the Associated Press reported that South Korea, Japan and the United States will be signing their first three-way intelligence-sharing pact as part of an effort to address the growing North ...
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On December 23, the NSA released a set of redacted reports detailing “intelligence activities . . . that [it has] reason to believe may be unlawful or contrary to Executive order or Presidential directiv...
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This season makes me think of the story of the Christmas truce of 1914 in the trenches of the Western Front. With warm wishes to all of of Lawfare's readers and especial thanks to those of our readers wh...
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Three years ago, Lawfare broke the important news that CIA branded gear at the CIA's gift shop was being imported from, of all places, Pakistan. Now, just in time for your last-minute holiday shopping, c...
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Forget North Korea. Forget the Islamic State. Forget the Iranian nuclear program. I want to tell you about my exchange with Edward Snowden---and the amazing things he seems to have said in it.
The excha...
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By now, we are all familiar with the attribution problems inherent in cyberspace. Notwithstanding, I have been provisionally willing to accept the FBI's assertion of North Korean responsibility for the ...
