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Happening Now: DNI James Clapper Speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations
At the top of the hour, Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper, Jr. will discuss the state of the intelligence community, and outline the major challenges and successes experienced throughout... -
3/2 Session #1: Unlawful Influence
The military judge, Air Force Col. Vance Spath, ascends the bench. Our proceedings return to order. And they begin with a bang: That is, with the court partially granting defense motion AE332, regardin... -
Al-Nashiri Motions Hearing: March 2 Session
We today resume with Lawfare's almost-live coverage of pretrial proceedings in the military commission case of United States v. Al-Nashiri. Our two-week hearing's second week is set to commence today so... -
The Intellectual---But Not Political---AUMF Consensus
[Cross-posted at Just Security.] A real consensus is developing on the contours of an appropriate AUMF---at least among academics and other commentators. It wasn’t always this way. For months, we, amon... -
The Latest 215 Collection Renewal
It happened Friday. Here's the White House Statement: In January 2014, President Obama directed an end to the Section 215 bulk telephony metadata program as it then existed, and called for the establishm... -
The Week That Will Be
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Friday at the Military Commissions: Al Nashiri
Last Friday's sessions in the Al Nashiri military commission case were quick. The first came quite early in the morning to resolve an outstanding issue from Thursday's closed session: whether the defense... -
New Additions to the Lawfare Team
I'm excited to announce three new additions to Lawfare's roster of contributing editors---all of whom have written for the site before and will be familiar to our readers. Timothy H. Edgar is a visiting... -
The Foreign Policy Essay: The South Korean Sentry—A “Killer Robot” to Prevent War
Editor’s Note: Autonomous weapons systems—or, as it is much more fun to call them, killer robots—are a controversial weapon of war. Critics worry that they make war more likely because they do not put so... -
The Lawfare Podcast: HASC Hearing on Outside Perspectives on the AUMF
On Thursday of this week, Lawfare’s Benjamin Wittes and Bobby Chesney, along with General Jack Keane, appeared before the House Armed Services Committee to provide “Outside Perspectives on the President’... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Lawfare’s own Bobby and Ben trekked to the Hill this Thursday, to testify alongside Gen. Jack Keane before the House Armed Services Committee on the Obama administration’s AUMF. Ben testified that, while... -
Fishing Expedition
Do you worry that the NSA, perhaps in a joint program with the U.S.
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