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A Message to Whomever is Trying to Hack Us
Dear Hacker: We can see you. We can see that you tried to access Lawfare's content management system today 139 times. We can see that you tried to log in 60 times as Wells. We can see that you tried ... -
Statements by Prosecution and Defense on This Week's 9/11 Case Hearing
The Chief Prosecutor issued this earlier this morning. Hello to all of you. Due to the Judge’s decision to take up the joint defense motion requesting he inquire into possible defense conflicts of inter... -
4/17 Session #1: A Special Trial Counsel, and a Pause
We’re back in session. The military judge, Army Col. James L. Pohl, calls proceedings to order. Of the five 9/11 accused, there are two absentees: Walid Bin Attash and Mustafa Al-Hawsawi. That prompts... -
9/11 Case Motions Hearing: April 17 Session
There's a small band of us here at Fort Meade's Smallwood Hall---the venue where we'll take in, via slightly-delayed, Closed Circuit Television, more of a pre-trial motions session in the 9/11 military c... -
"The Anti-Democratic, Anti-Transparency Ideology that Prevails at Lawfare"
I learned a lot about Lawfare---and about myself---yesterday from Conor Friedersdorf's rather bitter critique of my post on the decision to award the Pulitzer public service award to the Guardian and the... -
Fourth Circuit Decision in Lavabit
Readers will recall the Lavabit case in the Fourth Circuit, which I earlier described here, and here. -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Yesterday evening, the NYPD announced that it would shutter the Demographics Unit, the controversial program that sent plainclothes detectives to collect information about Muslim communities in the New Y... -
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Episode #15: An Interview with Daniel Sutherland
In this week’s episode, we explore the latest FOIA tussle between the FBI and ACLU over NSA and the dog-bites-man story of Larry Klayman losing another long-shot appeal. This Week in NSA focuses on the B... -
Metadata, Cellphone Geolocation Tracking, and Innocence
In the current discussions of NSA surveillance, we often talk as though metadata and cell phone tracking are simple creatures of government power. It is government, after all, that collects bulk metadata... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Today is the anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombing. The New York Times gives us an update on Dzhokar Tsarnaev and the ongoing preparations for his November trial. -
4/15 Motions Session #3: What Sorts of Evidence, Part Two (And a Recess)
Break being over, Cheryl Bormann picks up her thread: the conflict between absurdly strict secrecy controls and her own obligations to her client. Bin Attash is angry these days, she says, because he mus... -
4/15 Motions Session #2: What Sorts of Evidence, Part One
Our recess concludes; the action resumes. KSM lawyer David Nevin begins the defense’s remarks on possible evidence it might offer to support of AE292---a motion alleging inappropriate FBI contacts with a...
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