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The Senate voted 67-33 to end debate on the budget this morning. Half of the sequester cuts, which were scheduled to resume in January 2014, have been reversed. The NDAA will also likely get through the ... -
Live: Senate Intel Hearing on Nominees Caroline Diane Krass and Daniel Bennett Smith
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12/17 Motions Session #4: Bin Al Shibh, Re-Booted
We’ve returned from a lunch recess. So has Ramzi Bin Al-Shibh, along with his four co-accused, lawyers for both sides, and the military judge. Tension hangs in the air as the court attempts to question ... -
Lawfare Under Cyber Attack: Stick With Us, Please
Well, that will teach us to post podcast interviews with NSA officials! We have been experiencing intermittent outages this morning. They appear to be the result of cyberattacks coming from IP addresses... -
12/17 Motions Session #3: On Reconsideration
46C is on deck now---at least so far as it relates to the might-get-argued-might-not AE008. In it, Cheryl Bormann asks the court to revisit a related and earlier decision not to compel discovery. She de... -
12/17 Motions Session #2: In Which Bin Al Shibh Is Removed
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12/17 Motions Session #1: Sounds and Vibrations Redux
It’s go time down at Guantanamo. Per the court’s usual practice, all five accused are present for this first day of open proceedings, along with their lawyers---and, it appears, some new ones. Capt. Tod... -
9/11 Case Motions Hearing: December 17 Session
Today begins the open portion of a week-long slate of hearings in the 9/11 military commission case, United States v. Mohammed et al. Your Lawfare correspondent is caffeinated, rested, and ready to provi... -
Lawfare Podcast Episode #53: Inside NSA, Part II--Wherein We Interview the Agency's Chief of Compliance, John DeLong
It's Day 2 of “Inside NSA: We Brought in a Recording Device So You Don’t Have To”—a special series of podcast interviews with senior NSA officials that we conducted last week. In today's episode, we sit... -
Don't Miss the Footnotes: Judge Leon's Opinion in Klayman (Section 215 Collection)
Analyses of District Court Judge Richard Leon's opinion requiring the government to cease telephone metadata collection under Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act against two plaintiffs are proliferating: ... -
Thoughts on Judge Leon's Section 215 Opinion
I have now read through Judge Richard Leon's opinion enjoining bulk metadata collection under Section 215 of the Patriot Act. It's an odd document. For one thing, it's focused on a constitutional matter ... -
Government Says No Additional Briefing Needed to Address Revised Force-Feeding Protocols
More back-and-forth in the force-feeding case Aamer v. Obama, on appeal before the D.C. Circuit. Last Wednesday, the government filed a response to the detainees' Dec.
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