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We interrupt the week's Snowden-related coverage with this tiny reminder: at 9 a.m. tomorrow, hearings resume in the military commission case of United States v. Al-Nashiri. As always, we'll follow the...
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From FishbowlDC: Noah Shachtman of Wired's Danger Room will be Foreign Policy's new Executive Editor of News after Susan Glasser stepped down last week. And Shane Harris of Washingtonian magazine will al...
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Let’s begin with all things Edward Snowden.
The self-identified source of the NSA leaks explains his motives in this interview with the Guardian.
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Pardon the interruption from all-things-surveillance, but pursuant to our back and forth with Bobby, Jack, Matt, and Ben on the merits of a new AUMF, Representative Adam Schiff, a senior member of the Ho...
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The New Republic has just published an essay we wrote over the weekend on the late unpleasantness involving surveillance. It opens:
Former NSA contractor Edwards Snowden sure does know how to change the...
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The following statement was issued by the DNI on Saturday:
DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE WASHINGTON, DC 20511
June 8, 2013
Facts on the Collection of Intelligence Pursuant to Se
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Ben Emmerson, the UN's Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, issued the following statement on Friday following a visit t...
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I had some hesitancy writing this blog since so many of the writers at the Post are acquaintances. But it really must be said. By now, readers are familiar with the Post's story on the NSA Prism progra...
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You can't make this stuff up. The Guardian has revealed its source to be NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who (not surprisingly) appears to be a fierce advocate of online freedom and privacy and who (perh...
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This memorandum from the Secretary of Defense, came across my screen the other day. It will give the reader some insight into how DoD is trying to build its cyber capabilities.
MEMORANDUM FOR SECRETARIE...
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Published by Free Press (2012)
Reviewed by Stephen C. Neff
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Published by Free Press (2012)
Reviewed by Amy J. Sennett
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The Lawfare Book Review is pleased to announce that this weekend, we are publishing not one but two reviews of John Fabian Witt, Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History (Free Press 2012; the ...
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Last week, the inter-agency Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) approved Japanese telecommunications firm SoftBank's purchase of a 70% interest in Sprint-Nextel.
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Unsurprisingly, the dominant story on Lawfare concerned a leaked FISA Court order and the disclosure of the NSA's PRISM program. Here are Steve's post, written when the Guardian first published its piece...
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Among the questions raised by the yesterday's FISC story is this: what has the executive branch said to members of Congress, regarding the collection of Verizon customers' telephony metadata under Sectio...
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Like everyone else I've been following the breaking NSA stories. [And, as an aside, almost lost in the clutter is the Guardian's next revelation of PPD-20, the Administration's Top Secret cyber operatio...
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Happy(?) Friday. Buckle your seat belts, folks, because today's edition is a force to be reckoned with.
President Obama spent about 15 minutes earlier today speaking about the FISA Court order leak and ...
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[Editor's Note: Carrie Cordero is a frequent Lawfare guest poster, a former Justice Department official, and currently Director of National Security Studies at Georgetown University Law Center]
As some...
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The New York Times reports on President Obama’s first public comments on the NSA and FBI surveillance programs. Updated: Check out the C-SPAN video.
