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Caroline Krass Nominated as CIA GC
The President has just nominated Caroline Krass to be General Counsel of the CIA, to succeed Stephen Preston. Although late in coming, this is an excellent appointment. Caroline is currently the Princ... -
David Miranda Challenges Schedule 7 Detention
Today David Miranda, partner of Glenn Greenwald, was back at the Royal Courts of Justice to continue his suit against the home secretary and the Metropolitan police commissioner for his eight-hour, 55-mi... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The NSA isn't the only organization interested in metadata. The CIA pays AT&T more than $10 million per year to access its vast database of phone records---which the phone company has voluntarily agreed ... -
FAA Releases Two Key Documents on Domestic Drones
Today, the Federal Aviation Administration released two key documents bearing on the coming integration, on a broad scale, of drones into our national airspace. One is the so-called "Roadmap," a forward... -
Syria, Threats of Force, and Constitutional War Powers
As I’ve discussed previously, I am finishing a forthcoming paper on constitutional war powers and “The Power to Threaten War.” In the meantime, the Yale Law Journal Online has published my essay, drawin... -
Real Spies, Fake Spies, NSA, and More: What My 2012 and 2013 National Polls Reveal
In August 2012, thanks to YouGov, I launched my first national survey to probe more deeply about what Americans know about intelligence agencies, what they think about controversial intelligence programs... -
SSCI Approves Intelligence Authorization Bill for FY2014
The legislation, which the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence yesterday approved by a 13-2 vote, can be found here. The Committee's press release sums up the bill and can be found here. There's al... -
Cully Stimson on “Sexual Assault in The Military: Understanding the Problem and How to Fix It”
Charles "Cully" Stimson of the Heritage Foundation writes in with these thoughts on a report Heritage has released on sexual assault in the military: In the spirit of keeping national security law devote... -
Another Order in the 9/11 Case, This One On Legal Mail
Again, we learn of a key commissions ruling in the 9/11 case, without having the ruling itself. And again, we learn of it from 9/11 defense lawyer James Connell III. Here is his second statement (whic... -
In 9/11 Case, Military Judge to Review ICRC's GTMO-Related Communications with the USG
So we learn from James Connell III, an attorney for 9/11 accused Ammar al-Baluchi. -
Lawfare Podcast Episode #47: Matt and Ken Speak at Hoover on Autonomous Weapons
On October 25, the Hoover Institution held a day-long media colloquium out at Stanford University for a first-rate group of journalists focused on national security legal issues and the work of Hoover’s ... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Despite talks in the White House, in Congress and abroad about reining in the NSA data collection program, the Times reports that the Obama administration, for now, has “concluded that there is no workab...
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