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Schmitt on Eliminating the FISC
Gary Schmitt has an interesting piece in the Weekly Standard that argues for eliminating FISC oversight of executive branch surveillance and instead ramping up congressional oversight. He maintains that... -
DOD’s Weak Rationale for Keeping Enemy Identities Secret
Cora Currier at Pro Publica has an important story on why DOD won’t publish the list of AUMF “associated forces” against whom we are at war. DOD’s rationale: A Pentagon spokesman told ProPublica that re... -
The Two Fundamental Flaws in the New <em>Bahlul</em> Amicus Brief
Raff already flagged yesterday's filing of an amicus brief in support of the government in the Al Bahlul military commission appeal before the en banc D.C. Circuit by "former government officials, former... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Closing arguments were made in the Bradley Manning trial on Thursday. -
Where is the Law of War Manual? Here!
I've developed a bit of a backlog of things to post--a regrettable function of a crushing work volume in some of my various other lives and the fact that Lawfare, as it grows, requires more and more day-... -
Amicus Briefs in Al-Bahlul v. U.S.: Former Gov't Officials, Military Lawyers & Scholars, And the Washington Legal Foundation
Two amicus briefs were delivered today in the en banc phase of GTMO detainee Ali Hamza Ahmad Suleiman Al-Bahlul's appeal to the D.C. Circuit. The accused, as readers well know, was convicted by a militar... -
D.C. Circuit's Remand Opinion in Zivotofsky
As Jack and Raffaela noted yesterday, the D.C. -
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Chris Woods of the BIJ Responds
Chris Woods, who until just recently used to spearhead the Covert Drone War investigation at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism in London, writes in with the following comments on my post from the ot... -
Today’s Headlines and Commentary
The House narrowly voted down the Amash-Conyers amendment to curb NSA phone surveillance to specific targets of law enforcement investigations. -
The United Kingdom and Huawei
Last October, I noted the publication of a House Intelligence Committee report on the possibility of hardware intrusions arising from the use of products manufactured by Huawei and/or ZTE (two Chinese te... -
Quick Reaction to CADC’s Analysis in Zivotofsky
As Raffaela noted this morning, on remand from the Supreme Court’s rejection of the political question doctrine in Zivotofsky v. Clinton, the D.C. Circuit today held that Section 214(d) of the 2003 Forei...
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