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Rahul Sagar is Associate Professor at Yale NUS and the author of the terrific and timely Secrets and Leaks: The Dilemma of State Secrecy (reviewed favorably by Steven Aftergood on Lawfare and Eric Posner...
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On Saturday, after five years in Taliban captivity, Sgt Bowe Bergdahl, 28, the last American prisoner of war in Afghanistan, was freed in exchange for five Afghan Guantanamo detainees.
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Fascinating article in the Daily Beast from Nathan Bradley Bethea, who served with him:
It was June 30, 2009, and I was in the city of Sharana, the capitol of Paktika province in Afghanistan. As I stepp...
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
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One new policy proposal contained in the President’s West Point speech from Wednesday was a Counterterrorism Partnerships Fund, which would facilitate counterterrorism training for U.S. partner countries...
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Editor’s Note: The Pakistani people’s deep opposition to U.S. drone strikes against targets in Pakistan is common wisdom, and some observers see the associated anger as a major source of the country’s ra...
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Today’s Washington Post contains an interesting article about the backgrounds of the five released Taliban detainees entitled "Freed prisoners were battle-hardened Taliban commanders."
According to the ...
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Brookings held a great event this week, entitled: "The Allure of Normalcy: America’s Leadership in the World and President Obama’s Foreign Policy." It featured Robert Kagan on his impressive new essay in...
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Some wonderful (and quite NDAA-relevant) news, here reported by Talking Points Memo:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The only American soldier held prisoner in Afghanistan has been freed and is back in U.S. custod...
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Let’s start this week with famous American expatriate, Edward Snowden, whose interview with NBC’s Brian Williams aired on Wednesday. Ben was "unmoved" by it, pointing to Snowden’s unwillingness to submit...
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No open session today, either; only an ex parte, in camera session between the court and prosecutors.
Which is to say: this week's hearing has come to a close, so far as Lawfare's coverage is concerned....
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As Ritika mentioned in yesterday’s news coverage of the Williams-Snowden interview, the latter claimed that he initially sought to alert NSA officials to his concerns---among other things by emailing the...
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Let’s give Edward Snowden his due: He did himself a lot of good in his interview with NBC’s Brian Williams, which aired last night. He presents well, coming across as earnest, thoughtful and intelligent....
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The ODNI Tumblr site today posted April 2013 e-mail correspondence between Edward Snowden and the NSA's Office of General Counsel---the only such correspondence NSA says it has found.
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We begin with coverage and analysis of President Obama’s speech at West Point yesterday.
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Did you know that we have not carried out drone strikes in Pakistan since 2013? A story from Ken Dilanian (now at AP) today does a nice job of laying out the many reasons why:
1. Fewer targets ("Many ...
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Today promises only closed argument on the government's motion to have the military judge reconsider his order for extensive discovery into the CIA's RDI program. (Open argument was held yesterday.) We...
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One of the nice things about major presidential speeches is that they often are occasions during which reporters separately get to grill unnamed "senior administration officials" for clarification. So i...
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We return from a recess-ette. The parties quickly handle AE272, in which the defense asks the commission to replicate, in this case, a ruling entered in the 9/11 case. Recall that in the latter, the FB...
