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The Week That Will Be
Perceptive Lawfare readers may have noticed that we recently eliminated our rolling announcements ticker from the sidebar of the main page. Have no fear, Lawfare is still committed to posting relevant an... -
RSA and the MPD
I was in Starbucks the other day and the man behind me was a DC Metropolitan Police Officer. As we waited, he and I had a pleasant conversation (I learned, for example, that he likes two pumps of creme ... -
Autonomous Weapons: Is an Arms Race Really a Threat?
There has certainly been much written about the controversy over autonomous weapons systems, but in my preparation for a Chatham House conference on autonomous weapons, I found one argument made by advoc... -
The Foreign Policy Essay: Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy—Better Than It Looks
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Klayman v. Obama: Government Moves for More Time, Appellees Oppose
District court proceedings in Klayman v. Obama ended with a bang back in December, with D.C. District Court Judge Richard Leon ruling that bulk metadata collection under Section 215 of the Patriot Act is... -
Oral Argument Summary: Al Laithi v Rumsfeld
The courtroom is nearly full at the DC Circuit Court of Appeals for oral arguments in Al Laithi v. -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
As the week began, Ben and Jane critiqued a New York Times story rich with ominous warnings and innuendo that basically amounted to the Australians having spied on Indonesian government officials, includ... -
Lawfare Podcast Episode #63: "Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity: The Cybersecurity Framework and Beyond"
On Tuesday, the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence at Brookings hosted a panel discussion evaluating the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Framework. As Paul noted last... -
2/21 Motions Hearing #10: Sequestration and Judicial Notice
There are two more significant motions up today, the first of which Navy Lt. Paul Morris presents ever briefly. In AE200, prosecutors have asked the court, in advance, not to exclude victims from seques... -
2/21 Motions Hearing #9: Aggravating
So what’s next? A six-strong battery of defense attacks to various “aggravators”---allegations that, if endorsed by the panel after conviction, would call for a vastly greater measure of moral culpabili... -
2/21 Motions Hearing #8: On Grand Juries and Global Norms
Here is Air Force Maj. Allison Daniels, presenting AE183. Her motion seizes on the lack of grand jury indictment in this capital military commission case. That’s contrary to the Eighth Amendment, in the... -
2/21 Motions Session #7: AE180, Part Two
Before lunch, we were discussing the lack of narrowing provided by Rule for Military Commission 1004. According to Al-Nashiri’s attorney, Richard Kammen, the rule broadens the availability of capital pu...
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