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With the continuation of the crisis in Iraq, President Obama announced last week that U.S.
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Here it is.
The seven-page, heavily redacted legal analysis was apparently released earlier today, as a consequence of the FOIA action brought by the New York Times and the ACLU.
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With no more conflict motions for today, the Special Review Team swaps out and the normal prosecutors come back.
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Ukrainian artillery forces have shelled a Russian military convoy moving inside Ukraine this morning, reports Reuters.Yesterday, a series of Russian armored personnel carriers crossed over the border int...
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Working off transripts, Lawfare's Matt Danzer has a rundown of yesterday's pre-trial proceedings in the 9/11 case. We'll post his dispatches in our "Events Coverage" section, while linking to them as th...
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After agreeing Wednesday to reconsider the severance of Ramzi Binalshibh from the other four accused in the 9/11 case, Judge Pohl reconvenes the commission on Thursday with a full house—all five accused,...
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Nouri al Maliki seems to have backed down from his efforts to defend with force or threats his role as Prime Minister of Iraq. But he continues to press a second approach: a court challenge to the consti...
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A reminder: Lawfare won't be traveling to Fort Meade to take in, almost live and via CCTV broadcast, the rest of this week's pretrial hearing in the 9/11 case. We will thus resort to our backup coverage...
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Army Col. James Pohl starts Wednesday's brief session begins with a summary of where things stand in the case of United States v.
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The Associated Press reports that at least four children were killed in clashes between Iraqi troops and Sunni militants west of Baghdad today, a day after the U.N. declared the humanitarian crisis in Ir...
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We flagged news coverage of this important military commissions ruling earlier, when the item in question was not yet available.
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Yesterday plaintiffs-appellees filed their response in Klayman v. Obama, the Section 215 metadata collection case up on appeal in the D.C. Circuit.
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It's hard to imagine a place in the world where one would feel less threatened by geopolitics than Iceland. It's an island. It's pretty far from anywhere else. And it has very few people (the entire coun...
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Petitioner Ali al Bahlul, the Yemeni detainee who served as Osama bin Laden's personal assistant and public relations secretary, has just filed his opening brief in Al Bahlul v.
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The National Security Network has released a new report entitled "Ending the Endless War: An Incremental Approach to Repealing the 2001 AUMF." The report suggests a series of measures to cap and eventual...
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki no longer has the backing of Iran and faces pressure from Saudi Arabia, reports USA Today.
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A reminder, and a little coverage note: this afternoon will see a pre-trial hearing in the case against Ramzi Binalshibh---one of five men charged with plotting the 9/11 attacks. Unfortunately Lawfare wo...
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President Obama’s foreign policy appears in shambles. Many of his major decisions – decisions to act, and not to act – seem to have turned out badly. To take a few examples of prominent criticisms: If ...
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I had the opportunity to go to Las Vegas last week to attend the annual events surrounding DefCon and Black Hat. DefCon is a 22-year old convention of hackers (a/k/a security researchers) and Black Hat ...
