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"A Debate One Year after Snowden: The Future of U.S. Surveillance Authorities"
We will hold an event at the Brookings Institution a week from tomorrow, which marks the anniversary of the first Snowden disclosures. Lawfare readers will be familiar with the all the participants and t... -
5/28 Session #3: Members Versus Judges; Continuing Discovery Obligations
Action resumes at the Expeditionary Legal Complex, Courtroom Two. Army Col. James Pohl, the military judge, calls the proceedings once more to order. The defense, in AE267B, makes a due process argumen... -
Relevant Excerpts from President Obama's West Point Speech
Not a lot in President Obama's West Point speech that is new on Lawfare-related matters. -
5/28 Session #2: Protective Order Rules, and Ex Parte Contacts
In AE13N, the defense seeks relief from the case’s protective order regarding national security information---in particular, permission for defense counsel in this commission case to draw on classified e... -
Schoenfeld on the Selective Prosecution of Leakers
Gabriel Schoenfeld, author of the indispensable Necessary Secrets, has a new essay in Hoover’s Emerging Threats series entitled “Secrecy, Leaks, and Selective Prosecution.” He offers this description of... -
5/28 Session #1: Getting the SSCI RDI Report---or Not
It’s on---the open part of our proceedings, anyway. Recall that court and counsel began their day already, some time earlier this morning, in a Role 505(h) session that has concluded. The parties there... -
Bits and Bytes
Two interesting items today: Shane Harris has a look inside the FBI's efforts to track the Chinese hackers. Here's the intro: "SolarWorld was fighting a losing battle. The U.S. subsidiary of the German... -
Al-Nashiri Motions Hearing: May 28 Session
Down at Guantanamo, pre-trial proceedings will resume this morning in the military commission case of United States v. Al-Nashiri. As always, courtroom discussion will be piped to a closed-circuit viewi... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
President Obama has outlined his plan for a future American military presence in Afghanistan: he plans to withdraw all but 9,800 troops by the end of the year. Reuters reports that by the end of 2016, th... -
Why Kinsley is Wrong About the Connection Between Democracy and the Publication of National Security Secrets
Michael Kinsley, in his review of Glenn Greenwald’s book, made the following claims about leaks of national security secrets: The question is who decides. -
Incredible Photographs of World War I Battlefields a Century Later
From Smithsonian magazine and Irish landscape photographer, Michael St. Maur Sheil---who has a new exhibition on World War I battlefields a century on. -
Statement from the Chief Prosecutor on This Week's Hearings in Al-Nashiri
The Chief Prosecutor at Guantanamo, Brig. Gen. Mark Martins, had this to say on the eve of a pre-trial motions hearing in United States v. Al-Nashiri---which commences tomorrow, and which Lawfare will co...
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