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Lawfare topics took a backseat in the news this week, what with the Supreme Court's attention-grabbing week. The justices were too busy with same-sex marriage, the Voting Rights Act, and affirmative acti...
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A group of twenty-six senators yesterday wrote to DNI James Clapper, and inquired about the executive branch's application of the USA PATRIOT ACT---chiefly, it seems, the "business records" provision set...
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General James E. Cartwright, former deputy chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is the target of a Justice Department probe into the Stuxnet leak—so says an anonymous senior official, in this Washingt...
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I'm the subject of today's installment of the Council on Foreign Relations' otherwise excellent "Interviews" series--an effort to distill the nuances of hot-button legal issues for a more diverse audienc...
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Only a small number of Lawfare readers have ever heard of Michael Broukhim, but he has played an important role in the development of this site. Broukhim is an internet entrepreneur who was, when we were...
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Still leading the news: the story of Edward Snowden, his leaks of classified information about U.S.
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Last Thursday, Judge Gerald Bruce Lee of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia granted motions to dismiss the suit of a former Guantánamo detainee in Ameur v. Gates for lack of sub...
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A new development in the FISA/FAA world yesterday evening: Google and Microsoft have filed motions with the FISC (posted here on the FISC's public site) asking for permission to disclose to the public ho...
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Speaking of Laura Dean, she also sent me this morning the following account of ongoing and planned protests in Cairo:
It’s a hot muggy day in the restless Egyptian capital. A white haze of pollution brin...
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Here is the latest development in the Al-Bahlul appeal before the D.C. Circuit. Readers may recall that in May, the court received conflicting statements from detainee and counsel---one from Mr. Al-Bahlu...
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Intelligence officials say that Al Qaeda is altering its M.O. so to avoid letting communications get caught by the NSA surveillance programs. Read this piece by Kimberly Dozier of the AP. She writes:
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A few weeks ago, Brookings hosted a talk by Rached Ghannouchi, the head of Tunisia's ruling---and moderately Islamist---El Nahdha party, gave a talk at the Brookings Institution, a talk we ran as the mos...
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It's a big week at the Supreme Court, but Guantanamo habeas heads will not want to miss this development: the cert denial in Obaydullah on Monday. Steve wrote about this cert petition here, and coverage ...
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This, from the estimable Josh Gerstein of Politico, is disspiriting:
Following a complaint from two senators, the National Security Agency has removed from its website two fact sheets designed to shed li...
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This afternoon, the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Law and National Security will present a panel discussion entitled "NSA Surveillance Leaks: Facts and Fiction."
The event will be hos...
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Edward Snowden is still in Moscow, since he did not board the flight to Havana yesterday.
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Last week, the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) approved its version of the National Defense Authorization Act for FY2014.
