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Those who leak classified information violate their contracts, the public’s trust, and the law. As for those who publish the leaked information - it’s “complicated,” according to FBI Director James Comey...
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Pre-trial proceedings continue today down at Guantanamo---but on a closed basis. Lawfare thus won't be there, but will pick up with coverage of the military commission case of United States v. Al-Nashir...
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David Sanger reports that the Pentagon and the NSA planned a sophisticated cyberattack aimed at “the Syrian military and President Bashar al-Assad’s command structure” that “would essentially turn the li...
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Speaking of the Sulaiman Abu Gayth case in Judge Lewis Kaplan's courtroom in New York, check out this briefing.
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For those interested in that order the other day by Judge Lewis Kaplan's giving defendant Sulaiman Abu Gayth access to KSM, here's the motion that led to it.
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The last matter for the court this morning is AE 187, a defense motion seeking to move the location of the military tribunal from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to Norfolk, Virginia.
Commander Mizer, for the defe...
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The next motion before the court is AE 181, a defense motion to dismiss the capital punishment referral for all the charges against Al-Nashiri on Due Process and Eighth Amendment grounds because he will ...
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The morning's proceedings begin with a return to Al-Nashiri's alleged role in the attack on the French oil tanker the M/V Limburg in Yemen in October 2002. In AE 168, CDR Brian Mizer, counsel for Al-Nash...
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After Saturday’s closed hearing and a Sunday recess, the military commission for United States v. Al-Nashiri is back in business today to work through numerous pre-trial motions at Guantanamo. As Wells m...
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The New York Times has an editorial today about the need for data privacy legislation and about the report that president adviser John Podesta is putting together on big data and privacy. "The president ...
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Let's start with Ukraine. The Washington Post sums up the weekend's climactic events best: "[T]he Ukrainian parliament voted Saturday evening to dismiss President Viktor Yanukovych from office and to fre...
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Today, Lawfare test-drives a slight adjustment to its military commissions coverage---one we previewed a while back.
Jury duty will keep yours truly away from Fort Meade, and thus from almost-live blogg...
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Perceptive Lawfare readers may have noticed that we recently eliminated our rolling announcements ticker from the sidebar of the main page. Have no fear, Lawfare is still committed to posting relevant an...
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I was in Starbucks the other day and the man behind me was a DC Metropolitan Police Officer. As we waited, he and I had a pleasant conversation (I learned, for example, that he likes two pumps of creme ...
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There has certainly been much written about the controversy over autonomous weapons systems, but in my preparation for a Chatham House conference on autonomous weapons, I found one argument made by advoc...
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District court proceedings in Klayman v. Obama ended with a bang back in December, with D.C. District Court Judge Richard Leon ruling that bulk metadata collection under Section 215 of the Patriot Act is...
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The courtroom is nearly full at the DC Circuit Court of Appeals for oral arguments in Al Laithi v.
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As the week began, Ben and Jane critiqued a New York Times story rich with ominous warnings and innuendo that basically amounted to the Australians having spied on Indonesian government officials, includ...
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On Tuesday, the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence at Brookings hosted a panel discussion evaluating the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Framework. As Paul noted last...
