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A pretty strong signal from Judge Gladys Kessler, who today rejected GTMO detainee Jihad Dhiab's motion for a preliminary injunction to stop force feeding.
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I’m back! I missed you terribly, dear readers, while I was busy eating home-cooked food. And fear not, I won't be going anywhere for some time. A big round of applause goes to Raffaela for steering the ...
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Tahrir Square is full tonight. Tamarod marchers converge on downtown from all over Cairo. Rabaa el Adaweya is packed as well again today, only with Morsi supporters.
I haven't written yet in this diary ...
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While Ben has already noted the big NY Times report on the FISA court, I thought I would call attention to the other big story in today's paper -- the Washington Post article on how the US maintains acce...
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This will be a remarkable and interesting event, to say the least. The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (for a quick overview of the slow process by which the PCLOB has (sort of) gotten off t...
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The transatlantic dialog on security matters often has a frustrating ships-passing-in-the-night quality to it. So I was interested to see this unusually constructive and valuable policy paper on drones a...
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Several recent high-profile news items have shone a spotlight on the relationship between the government and private industry in national security matters, an area not frequently discussed in the media.
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Eric Lichtblau of the New York Times has this important story in today's paper:
In more than a dozen classified rulings, the nation’s surveillance court has created a secret body of law giving the Nation...
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Egypt has a new Prime Minister---or not.
State news media announced on Saturday that Mohamed ElBaradei, Nobel Prize winner and outspoken critic of the Brotherhood and the Mubarak regime, had been appoin...
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Nathan Myhrvold writes in with the following addendum to his paper, "Strategic Terrorism: A Call to Action," which we published the other day:
In the days since Ben posted my paper, I've been asked a fa...
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It was a somewhat light week for us here at Lawfare---though an exceedingly tumultuous one, obviously, for Egypt.
We covered the latter's unrest and coup by means of an exciting and experimental feature...
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That's the sum and substance of this Reuters piece (run here in the New York Times). It begins as follows:
CARACAS — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro offered asylum to former U.S. intelligence contra...
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Mukhtar Yahia Naji Al Warafi is seeking en banc review of his habeas petition from the D.C. Circuit. Best of luck with that.
A panel of the court affirmed Al Warafi's detention back in May. Lots of cove...
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Here's something you don't see every day: A leftist defense of the NSA and critique of leaker Edward Snowden.
It ran a few days ago in a publication called In These Times, which I used to read back when...
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So much violence tonight.
When people called for the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak in 2011, they clashed against state security forces with a clear goal in mind. There was a positive objective. Not ...
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Although President Obama's visit to South Africa went off uneventfully, it is worth reporting belatedly that the Muslim Lawyers Association in South Africa had filed an application with a South African c...
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We blogged earlier in the week about a motion brought by four detainees at Guantanamo----Ahmed Belbacha, Nabil Hadjarab, Abu Wa'el (Jihad) Dhiab, and Shaker Aamer.
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From Shane Harris, shot in Santiago de Compostela in Spain:
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The NYT, based on a Le Monde story, reports that “France has its own large program of data collection, which sweeps up nearly all the data transmissions, including telephone calls, e-mails and social med...
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In the U.S., the Fourth of July is the nation's birthday. In Egypt, it's the first day of the rest of the country's life.
It happened so fast that many of us are still in shock, still processing everyth...
