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Why Americans Don’t Trust the Intelligence Community
In his NSA Constitution Day speech, and in a follow-up post last week with Ashley Deeks, Ben offered this “tentative hypothesis” for why the intelligence community, and NSA in particular, engenders so mu... -
Al-Nashiri Motions Hearing: March 3 Session
Litigation resumes in one of Guantanamo's two capital military commission cases today at 0900; likewise the CCTV broadcast of the pre-trial session, which we'll follow from our little perch here at Fort ... -
Live: Gen. John Allen Addresses the Future of the Fight Against ISIL
At 5:00 pm, General John Allen, Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL, will deliver a keynote address at the Atlantic Council on the future of the fight against the Islamic ... -
Additional Thoughts on the DNI's Annual Threat Assessment
Jack gave a terrific rapid reaction to the DNI's 2015 annual threat assessment, delivered last Thursday. Here, I wanted to add a few more brief thoughts comparing this assessment to previous ones. First,... -
3/2 Session #3: Odds and Ends
Motion AE319J is next. In it, the defense asks to postpone the government’s bid to admit hearsay, pending the Court of Military Commission Review’s (“CMCR”) resolution of an interlocutory appeal concerni... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Describing his actions as part of a “fateful, even historic, mission,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has arrived in the United States in preparation for his address to Congress on Iran’s nucl... -
3/2 Session #2: How to Do Hearsay
The lunch hour comes to a close and we go back in the record in United States v. Al-Nashiri. What’s the way forward? We wonder, given Judge Vance Spath’s prior ruling on unlawful influence, which exc... -
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...
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