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Al-Nashiri Motions Hearing: February 17 Session
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... -
What I Am---And What I Am Not---Saying About Laura Poitras
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... -
Statement from the Chief Prosecutor Regarding This Week's Hearings in Al-Nashiri
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... -
Three Military Commission Developments
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... -
Bits and Bytes
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 ... -
The Foreign Policy Essay: ISIS’s Rejection of Al Qaeda—The End of an Era?
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... -
The Latest Snowden Leak: NSA Isn't Spying on Lawyers
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... -
EU To US: Let Us In Now!
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... -
Lawfare Podcast Episode #62: Benjamin Wittes and Conor Friedersdorf Debate the Ethics of Drones
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... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
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 ... -
Our Recent Cybersecurity Problems---and an Appeal for Reader Help
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... -
Bruce Schneier on NSA v. Private Meta-Data Storage
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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