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My Correspondence with Rick Perlstein: You Decide
On Saturday, I posted this piece in response to a particularly slimy blog post on The Nation's web site. The post dealt with Lawfare's relationship with the New Republic and the sponsorship of our joint ... -
December NSA Mini-Trove: Clapper and Fleisch on Secrecy Claims Post-Snowden
At the heart of this month's NSA Mini-Trove are the government's most recent explanations of its now narrower claims of secrecy in two long-pending lawsuits---Jewel v. NSA and Shubert v. Obama---the narr... -
A December NSA Mini-Trove
On Friday, the Director of National Intelligence declassified eight documents related to NSA activities, including the bulk collection of telephony metadata. The documents---all declarations by NSA offi... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Surveillance first: At President Obama's end-of-year press conference on Friday, he promised a "pretty definitive statement" on proposed NSA reforms after the holiday. As we noted Friday, the latest Sno... -
The Foreign Policy Essay: Elizabeth Dickinson on "Financing Extremism in Syria"
The civil war in Syria has confounded U.S. -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare In One Post
Who's Ringo? This week District Court Judge Richard Leon’s strong rebuke of bulk telephony metadata collection in Klayman v. Obama stole the headlines---from dismissing Smith v. Maryland as excessively a... -
Rick Perlstein Slimes Lawfare
I would normally leave a very slimy blog post like this one uncommented upon. But Rick Perlstein, the author of this particular post on The Nation's web site, is a very distinguished author of some very ... -
Excerpts of POTUS Press Conference On, Among Other Things, NSA Surveillance
The President answered press questions this afternoon on a variety of subjects, including NSA surveillance and Edward Snowden. The Washington Post has a transcript, the most NSA-relevant bits of which I... -
House and Senate Intelligence Leadership on President's Review Group Report
The leadership of the Senate and House intelligence committees released a statement in response to the President's Review Group's findings. -
Statement from the Chief Prosecutor on This Week's Hearings in the 9/11 Case
Here it is. From its opening paragraphs: Good afternoon, and warm tidings during this holiday season—a deeply meaningful season for so many peoples around the globe—to all of you. -
CTA9 Decides Al-Nashiri v. MacDonald
I've only skimmed this unsurprising ruling from the panel, which affirms the district court's dismissal of the detainee's suit against the military commissions' Convening Authority. From its opening: ... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
More from Pandora’s Snowden’s Box: newly leaked documents by the Guardian and Der Spiegel give a much wider picture of the scope of the American and British surveillance practices. The documents contain ...
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