We’re back.  What’s next?

In the coming days, I am certain we will see a lot of substantive commentary on the just-released report by the President's Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies: Liberty and Secur...

The curtain is raised once more. Applause surges rapidly at the Smallwood CCTV hovel and then dies down just as rapidly, as lunch comes to an end.  Counsel is Mustafa Al-Hawsawi’s lawyer, Walter Ruiz.  H...

Last night Jack highlighted certain parts of Caroline Krass's answers to the Additional Prehearing Questions that the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence posed to her.

Obviously, there's a lot to say about Monday's decision by Judge Leon granting a preliminary injunction against the NSA's telephone metadata program and then staying that decision pending appeal.

Bormann and Bogdan resume their discussion of procedures governing attorney-detainee meetings.  The former has challenged them; the latter defends them.

Game on.  The parties are seated as Army Col. James L. Pohl, the military judge, ascends the bench.  Four accused are here but one is not: Ammar al-Baluchi.  That means a voluntariness colloquy, and ulti...

Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote:  “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."  His point was that only small-minded men refused to re...

It's a chilly little day out at Fort Meade's Smallwood Hall---the closed-circuit television facility where, as per usual, Lawfare will be almost-live blogging pre-trial proceedings in the 9/11 case. Sam...