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Today's Headlines and Commentary
The Times is reporting that an American drone has hit an Islamic seminary in northwest Pakistan early this morning. This is the first American drone strike outside of Pakistan's more turbulent tribal reg... -
The November NSA Trove III: More Details on the Bulk Telephony Metadata Program
Next in the November NSA Trove: the filling in of some additional detail, and in five different FISC-related documents, regarding the collection and handling, by the NSA, of telephony metadata on a mass ... -
The November NSA Trove II: Judge Kollar-Kotelly's Opinion on Internet Metadata
The NSA had come knocking. It sought judicial permission to obtain, by means of pen registers and trap and trace devices, vast swaths of internet metadata within the United States. That request’s stagg... -
The November NSA Trove I: An Introduction
The latest tranche of declassified NSA materials is pretty big. But not all of the materials rank equally, significance-wise; at the same time, many of the documents---though undeniably important---are... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Let's begin with the rather-sudden developments in a future U.S.-Afghan security agreement: Afghans want President Obama to admit American military errors in exchange for compromise on American counter... -
The Shameless Revisionism of James Sensenbrenner: Georgetown Law Center Edition
I have previously vented a bit of spleen at Rep. James Sensenbrenner---the former House Judiciary Committee chairman who helped write the Patriot Act---for his CYA behavior with respect to bulk metadata ... -
How Does the President's Policy on Lethal Force Apply in Yemen Today?
Long War Journal reports an airstrike on three AQAP fighters in Hadramout, Yemen, earlier today. By LWJ's count, this would be strike number 23 for the year (suggesting 2013 might fall short of 2012's h... -
This Evening's Vote on NDAA Amendments Regarding GTMO
This evening, the Senate voted on two GTMO-flavored amendments to the FY2014 National Defense Authorization Act. One amendment was put forth by Senators Carl Levin and John McCain, and would have (among... -
Lisa Monaco Speech at NYU School of Law
Lisa Monaco, President Obama's counterterrorism advisor, gave the following speech at NYU School of Law this afternoon at this conference put on by the NYU Center for Law and Security on "Law and Strateg... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Today marks the 150th anniversary of President Lincoln's delivery of the Gettysburg Address. -
Senate Begins Floor Debate on 2014 Defense Authorization
On Monday, the Senate approved in a 91-0 vote to proceed to debate on the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act, and floor debate began today. We've covered the competing bills on Lawfare, one passed ... -
Problems with the FISC's Newly-Declassified Opinion on Bulk Collection of Internet Metadata
Yesterday afternoon, the DNI declassified an 87-page FISC opinion authored by Judge Kollar-Kotelly that had allowed a bulk Internet metadata collection under FISA's version of the Pen Register statute,
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