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Cyber and the NDAA
Congress is in recess now (that's why it's so quiet here in Washington) and when they return the first order of business for the Senate is to take up the 2014 NDAA. The bill, authorizing activities of ... -
More Filings Re: Hunger-Striker’s Motion to Intervene in Aamer v. Obama
Three updates in Aamer v. Obama, the force-feeding case on appeal to the D.C. Circuit. On November 14, the government filed its opposition to Guantanamo detainee Imad Abdullah Hassan’s motion to interve... -
The November NSA Trove VII: The 2011 U.S. SIGINT Directive
The November NSA cache declassified by Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper last week includes two United States Signals Intelligence Directive (USSID) documents. The more important of the ... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Let's take a brief detour from Iran, Syria and NSA surveillance, and talk about GTMO: Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo write, for the Associated Press, about "Penny Lane," a secret site at the Guantanamo Bay... -
Call for Papers: Syracuse University Journal for Terrorism and Security Analysis
CALL FOR PAPERS 10th Annual Conference on National and International Security at the Syracuse University Maxwell School for Citizenship and Public Affairs The Pivot: Challenges to Global Security in Asia -
Oral Argument Recap: Friday's Argument in ACLU v. Clapper
This past Friday, District Court Judge William H. Pauley III, of the Southern District of New York, heard oral argument in the American Civil Liberties Union’s ("ACLU") challenge to the government’s bulk... -
Feedback Requested: Emails from Lawfare
We are in the process of upgrading our email subscription system, and would like your feedback on the structure of future emails that collect the previous day's posts. If you subscribe to our daily emai... -
More on UN Detention Procedures for Military Operations
About a month ago, I asked what had happened to the UN’s effort to develop a set of standard operating procedures to govern detentions that arise during the course of UN operations. It appears that such... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
It's all about Iran this news cycle. -
Iran Nuclear Agreement as a Modus Vivendi
Over at opinio juris, Duncan Hollis has an interesting post about whether the agreement reached with Iran on early Sunday morning is legally binding. (I do disagree with Duncan’s title: the “new U.S.-Ir... -
Clive Walker on "Deportation With Assurances: UK Experience and Angst"
Clive Walker of the University of Leeds writes in with the following update on national security law news from Britain: -
Lawfare Podcast Episode #49: A Panel at NYU on "Law and Strategy in the Executive Branch"
On Tuesday, NYU's Center on Law and Security held a day-long conference on “Law and Strategy in an Era of Evolving Threats.” I have already posted the video of the sessions, but one of them, in particula...
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