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6/1 Session: Too Much Cancer, Not Enough Communication
Pre-trial proceedings in the military commission case against the alleged masterminds of the September 11th attacks resume Wednesday morning, with all attorneys present but none of the accused in attenda... -
5/31 Session: Contraband and the PRT
Today is the second day of this set of commission hearings. Bin’Attash and al Hawsawi are not present, though KSM, Binalshibh, and Ali are. Also present are all of yesterday’s defense counsel; apparently... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Earlier this morning, five people were killed in an attack on a Jordanian intelligence service office at a Palestinian refugee camp near Amman. -
Policymakers are from Mars, Tech Company Engineers are from Venus
This week, Herb Lin and I are giving a joint talk about the suit-hoodie divide, and whether relations between Washington and Silicon Valley are getting worse (I think the answer is yes). Part of the prob... -
Three Years Later: How Snowden Helped the U.S. Intelligence Community
Three years ago today, The Guardian published the first story based on the huge archive of documents that that Edward Snowden stole from the National Security Agency while working as an NSA contractor. ... -
Invitation to the Hoover Book Soiree: Fred Kaplan on "Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War"
The next in our series of book soirees at the Hoover Institution's Washington Office will take place on June 15, when Ben interviews Fred Kaplan about his new book, Dark Territory: The Secret History of ... -
China’s Ridiculously Weak Legal Argument Against Complying with the South China Sea Arbitration Award
The forthcoming arbitral award in the dispute between the Philippines and China has become one of the most anticipated international judicial decisions in recent history, even dominating discussion at th... -
National Security in a Data Age
Editor's Note: Data should drive decision-making – the real question is how much should it do so? As big data and data analytics expand, it is tempting to assume they can solve many of the problems forei... -
Vice. Snowden. Fantasy.
I’ve read the Vice News report based on the FOIA-released documents three times now, and still do not see within it support for the headline, “Exclusive: Snowden Tried to Tell NSA About Surveillance Conc... -
The Lawfare Podcast: How's the Iran Deal Really Going?
This week, the Brookings Institution held an event on a new Brookings report on implementation of the Iran Deal: -
The Powers of the Presidency -- A Legal Research Bleg
Any law students out there who want to work on a legal research project on the powers of the presidency? [Sorry, no pay involved.] -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare In One Post
The 9/11 Military Commissions continued down at Guantanamo Bay this week. Susan Hennessey shared Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins’ statements in advance of the hearing. Clara Spera provided coverage of the ...
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