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Judges Brett Kavanaugh and John D. Bates on Blogs and Judges in National Security Cases
At a recent panel on which I spoke at the ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security's annual conference, D.C. Circuit Judge Brett Kavanaugh and U.S. District Judge---and former FISA presiding j... -
A Reader Survey on Live Lawfare Events and Webcasts
We are currently planning to launch, in the new year, a series of live events, webcasts, and other forms of programming. Readers have been asking for more of this sort of thing from Lawfare for quite som... -
Throwback Thursday: The 1994 Budapest Memorandum
Editor’s note: For quite a while now, social media enthusiasts have been using the hashtag #tbt (or, in long-form, “Throwback Thursday”) as a way to reminisce about the past. Now Lawfare has decided to g... -
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5 Guantanamo Detainees Transferred to Europe Today
At the Miami Herald, Carol Rosenberg reports that the Pentagon today transferred 5 inmates at Guantanamo Bay to two countries in Europe. According to Rosenberg, three of the detainees were sent to Georg... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Is an Iranian nuclear deal going to happen? Four days before a scheduled deadline in talks, the answer to that question is as unclear as ever. -
Navy Weighing Fate of Nurse who Refused To Perform Guantanamo Force-Feeding Procedures
Earlier this month we noted that, in the much-watched Dhiab case, a federal judge refused to grant a preliminary injunction against certain force-feeding procedures used on hunger-strikers at Guantanamo. -
SSCI Leadership on Proposed Changes to CIA E-Mail Destruction Policy
A while back I noted certain 9/11 defense counsel's objections to a proposed change to the CIA's policy, regarding the destruction of CIA e-mails. In August, a federal bureaucracy charged with appraising... -
ODNI Releases Transcript from 2008 Protect America Act Litigation
On Monday, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence published a declassified oral argument transcript from critically important 2008 proceedings before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Co... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Yesterday, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT)’s USA Freedom Act failed to pass the Senate. Intended to reform the National Security Agency (NSA) and limit government surveillance, the bill received fifty-eight... -
Congressional Action on ICANN Accountability
As readers of this blog know, the United States is in the midst of a transition that will, when completed, give up its contractual control of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). That authori... -
NTSB Overturns ALJ Ruling in <em>Pirker</em> Drone Case
Robot-inclined folk probably already know the story of Rafael Pirker. In 2011 he flew his Ritewing Zephyr powered glider over the University of Virginia, while taking aerial photos; allegedly the aircra...
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