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It's a snowy day here at the Fort Meade CCTV facility. Lawfare's in the house, for the first of this eight-day, pre-trial motions hearing in United States v. Al-Nashiri. Same format as always: dispatch...
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This morning, Jane and I posted a critique of the New York Times's very silly story about non-NSA surveillance---by one foreign government against another foreign governments---surveillance not against U...
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You'll find the statement in full, here. It opens as follows:
Good evening. Abd Al Rahim Hussayn Muhammad Al Nashiri stands charged with serious violations of the law of war for his alleged role in...
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One in the recent past, two more in the very near future.
The first came on Friday, when the government added a conspiracy count to the military commission charges against Guantanamo detainee Abdul Hadi...
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Bob Gourley, of CTO Vision, thinks that the NIST Cybersecurity Framework is OK as far it goes. But he is concerned that the “framework is missing something very important that enterprises big and small ...
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Editor’s Note: Cooperation among terrorist groups is dangerous, making them far more flexible and lethal in their operations. Yet such cooperation is rare, and when it occurs it can be fraught with prob...
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Unless the public is really tiring of matters Snowden, the New York Times’s latest is going to stir up the hornet’s nest. “Spying by N.S.A. Ally Entangled U.S. Law Firm,” blares the headline of the story...
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There’s diplomacy and then there is chutzpah. I have to think that the latest move by the European Union on the visa front is closer to the later than to the former. The EU has demanded that, within si...
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Last November, the University of Richmond invited Ben and Conor Friedersdorf to participate in a debate on the ethics of drone warfare. Conor is a familiar voice in the anti-drone camp, as those who have...
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As this past week began, Ben expressed some exasperation with Angela Merkel and State Department officials for whining like a “bunch of babies” in their responses to the release of an undiplomatic phone ...
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I am writing both to update readers on the attacks on Lawfare that took place this week and to make a frank fundraising appeal for reader help in addressing them.
As readers know, we have been hit since...
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In December I said this about the Presidential Review Group’s recommendation to transfer meta-data from NSA to private control: “I understand the Report’s concerns about the storage of bulk meta-data by ...
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Yesterday, Ritika and Yishai told you about the NSA memo that reveals that Edward Snowden used the login information of a civilian employee of the NSA to gain access to classified documents.
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The ACLU's Ben Wizner and Daniel Ellsberg vs. former CIA Director James Woolsey and Andrew McCarthy:
Snowden Was Justified from
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This is one of the coolest half hours of national security radio I have heard in a long time. The excellent public radio show Radiolab---and reporter Julia Barton---have put together the story of where t...
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President Obama on Tuesday affirmatively stated that the United States does not have any “no spy” agreements with other countries. Many journalists, scholars, and foreign officials have been laboring un...
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I am amused today by these two headlines about the IMF's just-released assessment of Iran's economy and the effects of remaining sanctions: the New York Times reports that I.M.F.
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NBC News obtained a National Security Agency memo that reveals that a civilian employee of the NSA gave one Edward Snowden his login information and password, which Snowden then used to access classified...
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Our cyber attack this morning was a bit more serious than ones we have experienced in the past. And at least one reader reports persistent effects up until now. Please shoot me a note if you're noticing ...
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At one level, the D.C. Circuit's decision this week in Aamer v. Obama on Guantanamo hunger strikes probably surprised nobody. As expected, the D.C. Circuit upheld the two district court decision to deny ...
