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The Week That Was: All of Lawfare In One Post
The world was consumed with the debt ceiling crisis and the shutdown this week, a topic on which Lawfare had only a limited amount to say. Ben stated the obvious: that the government shutdown is a nation... -
Support Lawfare Too---Or Instead
This week was pledge drive on Washington's major NPR affiliate: WAMU. If you're like me, NPR pledge week involves a certain disruption in daily schedule. NPR is one of my major news sources. But I tend t... -
Oral Argument Recap: Aamer v. Obama
Here’s a read-out from today’s oral argument in Aamer v. -
Two Noteworthy Features of the Most Recent 215 Ruling
As Ben noted, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) has redacted and made available another memorandum and primary order dealing with Section 215 telephone metadata collection. Two things s... -
New FISA Court Opinion on Bulk Data Under Section 215
Get yer copies of the memorandum and primary order here. (Other less interesting documents here and here.) I'll write up my thoughts as soon as I have any. -
Autonomous Weapon Systems: Why a Ban (Still) Won't Work and How the Laws of War Can
Over at TNR's Security States, Matt and I have a new piece about international calls to ban autonomous weapon systems. It begins like this: What if armed drones were not just piloted remotely by humans ... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The New York Times sat down with Edward Snowden this month. The most important take away from the in-depth and wide-ranging interview: Snowden says he did not take any secret files or documents with him ... -
A Very Brief Reply to Steve Vladeck
Let’s clear away the underbrush: The buried lede in Judge Walton’s letter of July 29---which is the one that matters---is the comparison of FISA scrutiny to that of district courts assessing Title III wa... -
Two FISA Data Questions for Joel Brenner
Although Joel's post from last night cites the wrong letter from Judge Walton to Senators Leahy and Grassley, this week's letter, which definitely does not bury the lede, does provide significant data on... -
The Data on FISA Warrants
Now we know: the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court bounces a quarter of the government’s applications for surveillance orders. This according to statistics released this week by the court’s chief... -
While We Were Watching The House . . .
. . .The Senate took action on a host of pending executive branch nominations on Wednesday evening after it passed legislation ending the shutdown. Two dozen civilian executive branch nominations, to be ... -
Jeh Johnson Chosen to Lead the Department of Homeland Security
Here's the news, from The Daily Beast's Dan Klaidman: The White House has settled on a former high-ranking Pentagon official to replace Janet Napolitano as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Secu...
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